Well, we're at the 182nd anniversary of the end of the Nat Turner rebellion. It unravelled on the morning of August 23, 1831. After the rebellion ended following a battle at the Belmont plantation, there was some really gruesome extra-legal violence – I mean gruesome — against rebels and suspected rebels and other enslaved people who happened to have nothing to do with the rebellion and maybe weren't even suspected of rebellion. Then, after a few days of that extra-legal violence, the next stop for suspected rebels was the Southampton County Courthouse — or in a few cases the Sussex County Courthouse or the Greensville County Courthouse. So maybe there should be a trivia question related to an antebellum courthouse?
Where? When? What is this building's connection to UNC? (I'm guessing this looks very familiar to people from Chapel Hill.)
This is proving tougher than I'd expected. Are Owen and Jason on vacation?
Powhatan County Courthouse, Virginia. 1849. Architect was Alexander Jackson Davis, who also designed buildings at UNC, including Playmakers' Theatre/Smith Hall.
You are, as always, correct, Jason. Nicely done!