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New courthouse museum focuses on county's place in legal history

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 12/16/09

Built in 1824, the Anne Arundel County Courthouse has been expanded three times over the years to dominate an entire city block off Church Circle in Annapolis.

Paul W. Gillespie — The Capital Circuit Court Judge Nancy Davis-Loomis, the court's administrative judge, and Saul McCormick, president of the Anne Arundel County Bar Foundation, show off the courthouse's new museum, which is located just inside the front door of the courthouse on Church Circle in Annapolis.

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County Circuit Court judges have set legal precedents there in such areas as slavery, voter's rights and historic preservation.

But until now, there was no place in the courthouse to memorialize that history.

"As wonderful as this courthouse is, and I think it is marvelous ... I've always thought that component was missing," Circuit Court Judge Nancy Davis-Loomis said Thursday at the grand opening of the courthouse's new museum.

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