List of the oldest courthouses in the United States
Former courthouses
The following other old courthouses still standing today exist as museums, for other government functions, or are now privately owned facilities.

List of the oldest courthouses in the United States

Section Title: Former courthouses
Table Section Text: The following other old courthouses still standing today exist as museums, for other government functions, or are now privately owned facilities.

Courthouse	Photo	Location	Built	Notes

Former Queen Anne County Courthouse	Maryland	1708	Built in 1708, it is likely the oldest courthouse still standing in the United States. Today the property is open as a museum.

Old Chester Courthouse	1724 Chester Courhouse.JPG	Pennsylvania	1724	This is the oldest public building in continuous use in the United States. It is a handsome structure and a well preserved and valuable example of a colonial period stone courthouse.

Old Essex County Courthouse	-	Virginia	1729	Converted and expanded into a church in the 19th century.

New Castle County Court House	-	Delaware	1730	This building was built over the remains of Delaware's first courthouse (1689) that was burnt by an arsonist and of which the foundation is still visible.

Old Northampton County Courthouse	Eastville Courthouse.JPG	Virginia	1731	The first judges held court on the lower Eastern Shore of Virginia starting in 1632 by meeting in private homes, ordinaries and taverns.

Cahokia Courthouse	Old Cahokia Courthouse.JPG	Illinois	ca. 1740	This structure was erected as a private residence circa 1740 when the area was French territory. In 1793, the residence was purchased by the federal government to function as the court for the United States Northwest Territory.

Old Middlesex County Courthouse	-	Virginia	1745	Located in Urbanna, Virginia. Now serves as the Middlesex County Woman's Club

Plymouth Courthouse	-	Massachusetts	1749	Built of wood, it served as a courthouse until 1820. It also served local municipal uses from 1749 until the 1950s.

Old Isle of Wight Courthouse	Smithfield colonial courthouse.JPG	Virginia	1750s	Located in Smithfield, Virginia.

Old Lincoln County Courthouse	Maine	1761	Judges and lawyers who served or appeared here include Robert Treat Paine, Benedict Arnold, William Cushing, and James Sullivan. Today it is a museum.

Old Gloucester County Courthouse	-	Virginia	1766

Perth Amboy City Hall	Perthamboycityhall.JPG	New Jersey	1767	This building is now the oldest City Hall in continuous use in the United States. It originally held court functions as well as city administration functions.

Williamsburg-James City County Courthouse	-	Virginia	1771

Olde Colonial Courthouse, Barnstable	-	Massachusetts	c.1763	Wooden structure, construction initiated in 1763. About 1,500 citizens assembled here in 1774 to protest the British Intolerable Acts, which revoked the colony's rights of self-government.

Old Grafton County Courthouse	-	New Hampshire	1774	Built in 1774, this building was the site of Daniel Webster's first criminal case in 1805 and served as a courthouse until 1823.

Old West Liberty Courthouse	West Virginia	1778–79

Bedford Courthouse	New York	1787	Today this is open as a museum.

Hardy County Courthouse	West Virginia	1792	Built in 1792, it served as a courthouse until 1860 and is now a luxury apartment building.

Hunterdon County Courthouse	-	New Jersey	1793	Struck by fire likely caused by arson in 1828, it was heavily rebuilt using and incorporating the original walls. The courthouse was the scene of the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, the man convicted in the Lindbergh kidnapping case in what became coined as "The Crime of the Century" and "The Trial of the Century" in popular media and folklore at the time.

Old Carteret County Courthouse	North Carolina	1796	This is the oldest surviving wooden courthouse in North Carolina. Today it serves as a museum and hosts an interactive dramatization program that allows school children to conduct mock trials and reenactments for famous trials for educational purposes.

Old Greene County Courthouse	Pennsylvania	1796	This structure, now a museum, shows a good example of an early wooden log cabin courthouse.

Old Fairfax County Courthouse	-	Virginia	1799

Old Russell County Courthouse	-	Virginia	1799

The Cabildo	-	Louisiana	1799	The Cabildo in New Orleans was built between 1795 and 1799 as the home of the Spanish municipal government after the original Cabildo was destroyed in the Great New Orleans Fire.

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The Cahokia Courthouse is of the state of Illinois and is one of the oldest in the United States.

final_sentence: The Cahokia Courthouse is of the state of Illinois and is one of the oldest in the United States.