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 Greene
County, formed from Orange County in 1838, was named for Nathanael
Greene of American Revolutionary War fame. In 1716 Governor
Alexander Spotswood and his "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe"
traveled through Greene on their historic expedition to the
summit of the Blue Ridge Mountains, reaching Swift Run Gap
a short distance from what came to be Stanardsville . Stanardsville
has always been the county seat.
The present Greene county courthouse was built in 1838 on
land donated by Robert Stanards and a county office building
was completed in 1938. On October 24, 1979 a fire destroyed
the county office and part of the courthouse. The courthouse
was restored. A new county office administration building
was built on the corner of Main Street and Columbia Road.
The population of Greene County is over 15,000 people.
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