Washington County Courthouse (Abingdon)

Washington County was carved from Fincastle County in 1776 and named for George Washington while he was still commanding the Continental Army. Abingdon, its county seat, has served that role ever since. The courthouse there is listed on the National Register of Historic Places — the brief record of a governmental continuity that has outlasted boundary changes, wars, and the eventual incorporation of Bristol as an independent city in 1890.