Less than a week to the 2026 Twilight Tours! We’re posting highlights from past Tours to get you in the spirit in this season of spooks and spirits.
Get details and tickets here:
https://www.scottsvillemuseum.org/2026/09/09/twilight-tours-2026/
Jack Manahan, portrayed by Ralph Lewis, was University of Virginia professor of history and genealogy, and well known around Scottsville for his eccentricities. A colorful character, in his later years he often hitchhiked from Scottsville to Charlottesville. Many residents town still remember stopping to give him rides, and the surprising conversations that ensued.
Manahan became internationally famous when he married Anna Anderson, a German-born woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Another colorful character in her own right.
They lived on the 660 acre farm “Fairview” at the northern edge of Scottsville.
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