Amelia Court House, VA

Amelia Court House is the county seat of Amelia County in the U.S. state of Virginia and a census-designated place. The 2020 census counted 965 residents. The town was named for Princess Amelia of Great Britain, the second daughter of Great Britain's King George II, in 1735. The last major engagement of Lee's army with Union forces occurred April 6, 1865, on the border of Amelia County at the Battle of Sayler's Creek. Amelia Golf & Country Club. Joe Paulette Memorial Park. The through line in Amelia Court House is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Amelia Court House makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. The Union forces were rushing to catch up to Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and did not ensure that the courthouse records were burned.