1749 Courthouse

The Old County Courthouse is an historic court house on Leyden Street and Market Street in the Town Square of . Built in 1749, the two-story wood-frame building is believed to be the oldest wooden courthouse in the United States; it stands on the site of the first courthouse built by Plymouth Colony settlers, and may incorporate elements of a 1670 building.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: historic court house in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “1749 Court House and Museum”, “1749 Court House Museum”, “Old County Courthouse”, and “Old Town House”
  • Address: MA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include First Parish Church and Church of the Pilgrimage.

Church
in Plymouth is a historic Unitarian Universalist church at the base of on the town square off Leyden Street in .

Church
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Post office
Photo: Marcbela, Public domain.
The is a historic former post office building in . The building was designed by Oscar Wenderoth and built in 1914-15 by the Hanold-O'Brien Company for the federal government.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bradford–Union Street Historic District and Plymouth Village Historic District.

Neighborhood
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The encompasses a waterfront residential area of , developed in the mid-19th for workers in local maritime and other industries.

Neighborhood
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The is a historic district encompassing part of the area of earliest settlement of the Plymouth Colony in .

Village
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is a census-designated place in the town of in , , United States. As of the 2020 census, had a population of 3,983.

1749 Courthouse

Latitude
41.95547° or 41° 57′ 20″ north
Longitude
-70.66449° or 70° 39′ 52″ west
Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)
Open location code
87HFX84P+56
Open­Street­Map ID
way 215736722
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
4928611
Wiki­data ID
Q7083773
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