{"nrhp_refnum":"03000214","name":"Mosby Tavern","other_names":["Littleberry Mosby House","Cumberland Old Courthouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2625 Old Tavern Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Powhatan","county":"Powhatan County","state":"VA","lat":37.564755269000074,"lon":-78.03739957403171,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mosby Tavern is a two-story frame center-hall dwelling with one-story wings in western Powhatan County, Virginia, beside U.S. Route 60. It grew from a one-room house built about 1740 by Benjamin Mosby and also served as an ordinary and courthouse.","why_significant":"The property is significant for its role in late colonial and Revolutionary-era local government, serving as an ordinary, courthouse and prison for Cumberland and later Powhatan counties and as a militia rendezvous. It is also tied to Benjamin Mosby and his son Colonel Littleberry Mosby, Sr., who held a range of county and state offices. Its layered additions reflect the growth of vernacular architecture in Powhatan County.","narrative":"Mosby Tavern is a two-story frame house with flanking one-story wings beside U.S. Route 60 in western Powhatan County, Virginia. Its oldest part is a one-room dwelling built about 1740 by Benjamin Mosby, who opened a portion of it as an ordinary in 1741 on the stage road linking Richmond and Lexington. The building later hosted nearly thirty years of court sessions for Cumberland and then Powhatan counties, doubled as a prison, and became known as the Old Cumberland Courthouse. It was also a militia rendezvous at the start of the Revolutionary War. Benjamin Mosby and his son Littleberry Mosby, Sr., held offices ranging from surveyor and justice of the peace to sheriff, militia colonel and member of the House of Delegates. Mid-nineteenth-century additions, including board-and-batten wings, and a mid-twentieth-century rear addition turned the small house into an I-house. Several twentieth-century farm outbuildings remain on the property, which is still a private residence.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1740-1952","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Described as a private dwelling in excellent condition, with early and mid-twentieth-century agricultural outbuildings and a late-twentieth-century pool and pool house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.336131-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/46/6826/41682646/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03000214.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682646","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosby_Tavern","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712898"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/powhatan-county/mosby-tavern-03000214/"}