Completed - 1933
Architect - Elmer G. Withers

COUNTY ORGANIZED: 1848

COUNTY NAMED FOR: Abel Packer Upshur, the secretary of state under President John Tyler.

COUNTY SEATS: One - Gilmer

COUNTY SEAT NAMED FOR: Thomas W. Gilmer, who died during the test firing of a new cannon on the USS Princeton on February 28, 1844. The same explosion also killed United States secretary of state Abel P. Upshur.

COURTHOUSES: Five - 1846, 1848, 1871, 1889, 1933.

STANDING:  One - 1933 Modern courthouse built of brick.

LINKS: Upshur County