1799 County Clerk's Office At the November, 1799, term of Culpeper County Court, a committee was appointed to report on the erection of a suitable Clerk's office. At the June term, 1800, Philip R. Thompson, Benjamin Shackleford, Richard Yound Wiggington, John Strode, and Samuel Hening were appointed to select a site. The brick building was erected in 1800 on Davis Street, east of the Court House. The building was sold in 1870, separately from the lot upon which it stood. It was torn down 1872 and moved to its present site. Culpeper County's first Court House building stood on the northeast corner of Main (then Coleman) and Davis St. streets. It is not known it is not known when it was erected because of the fact that the first minute book of the Culpeper County Court has been missing for many years from the county clerk's office. it is thought to have been stolen during the Civil War. Probably a frame structure, it is supposed to have been erected soon after July, 1749, when the site was approved. The first County Court of Culpeper, said to have been held at the home of Robert Coleman, met and organized on May 18, 1749. On March 17, 1763 (the earliest session of the court of which any record is available), at a session of County Court, the justices present were William Williams, Robert Green, Benj. Roberts, James Slaughter, and Henry Field. The whole court was composed of 20 justices of the peace. The first complete list of the County Court is disclosed in a June, 1963, entry in the 1763-64 minute book, the earliest available. In this book, whick is mutilated and incomplete, there is only one entry concerning the Court House building. Dated March 18, 1763, it orders the justices "to let the building of porch and railing at Court House." (Source: Notes by R Travers Green Jr.,) Culpeper County Historical Society