The Virginia General Assembly in its October 1786 session enacted "that ten acres of land, the property of Richard Drummond, adjoining to Accomack courthouse...are hereby established a town, by the name of Drummond." The act establishing Drummondtown came over a century after the court of Accomack County has begun meeting at the site, first in the home or tavern of John Cole and then in a brick courthouse completed in 1756.
