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Times Dispatch Touts Scottsville for New Industry ~ 1909
Date: April 11, 1909 Road Material in Great Abundance Local Capital Ready to Take Pot Luck With Outside Cash, An Old-Time Canal Town That Has Taken on New Life By Frank S. Woodson, Industrial Editor Scottsville, VA, April 10 – The town from which I am writing is not quite as old as Jamestown nor…
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Scottsville Courier
Details of Business and Social Life ~ 1897 Date: August 12, 1897 The Scottsville Courier was published beginning in 1877 and ceased publication in 1906. The August 12, 1897 edition of this newspaper listed its Editor and Manager as Frank T. Hill, with Frank C. Moon the associate editor and solicitor. This old newspaper listed…
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Opening Day at Scottsville Creamery
Shown above is the crowd standing in front of the Scottsville Creamery on West Main Street during its 1910 opening day celebrations. This business venture evolved in 1909 as Scottsville sought new industries in their town, which they felt was geographically situated so as to command good trade from all of Virginia if it produced…
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Charles Thomas Moon’s Grocery Store
The Charles Thomas Moon grocery store sat between the Masonic Lodge and the very edge of Mink Creek on Scottsville’s Main Street. On its first floor was the small store owned by Mr. Moon, Charles T. Moon Grocery, and this building’s second floor hosted a small apartment. Mr. Moon operated his grocery roughly between 1900-1920.…
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Little’s White Oil ~ Scottsville, VA, 1837-1866
Shown above are two bottles that were once filled with Little’s White Oil, a patent horse liniment compounded and patented by Theodore Wallis Little of Wayne County, NY. This liniment was manufactured and sold by the drug business established by Theodore with his brother, Charles Ebenezer Little, between 1837-1866. During this time period, Theodore also…
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Bank of Scottsville ~ 1852-1865
by Robert Tharpe The Virginia General Assembly passed an Act to establish the Bank of Scottsville in the County of Albemarle on March 12, 1849. James W. Mason, a notable Scottsville resident and builder of “Old Hall” was listed as a director. The Bank was not established then, however. Three years later, the Bank was…
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Race Day at the James River Valley Fair ~ 1890
Shown here is a Burgess panorama and the earliest photo in this collection. The James River Valley Fair grounds were located just west of Scottsville along the James River bottomland near the present Uniroyal Plant. First launched in 1883, the James River Valley Fair ran three days of horse racing with purses, jockey colors, and…
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Arson Suspected in Two Destructive Fires on Main Street in 1976
Two Large Fires Raged On Scottsville’s Main Street in February 1976, destroying a church and four businesses at the center of town. They appeared to be the work of an arsonist who was never found. The photo above of the intersection of Valley Street (left) and Main Street (right) shows the Esso Station, run by…
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Life of a James River Batteauman
Text and photos by Barry Long The James River has been a watery highway of boat transportation since before John Smith sailed into its mouth in 1607, whereupon he was greeted by people traveling in dugout canoes. It remained the single most important avenue of transportation in the Colonies for hundreds of years, not only…
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Laying Cornerstone of Scottsville Plant
Date: May 24, 1944 Image Number: RT01cdRT02 Scottsville Plant was built in 1944 by the Defense Plant Corporation to help the nation’s war effort. It was designed and constructed to provide tire fabric and was operated by the Textile Division of the U.S. Rubber Company. The cornerstone-laying ceremony for this plant was sponsored by the…
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