Category: 1900’s
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Old Post Office and Griffin Building
This building is a two-story, seven bay-wide structure, located at 358 and 370 Valley Street in Scottsville. It was built about 1840 and may have served as an inn during canal days. The left side of the building served as Scottsville’s Post Office from 1884 to 1914. The right side of the building was used…
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Miss Hannah Moore’s Boarding House
Miss Hannah Moore built her Boarding House (the brick house at the right of this photo) in 1910 on the east side of Valley St. She opened it as a boarding house in 1911, and for years, Miss Willie Hitchcock lived there. Miss Willie, cousin to Wild Bill Hitchcock, taught the Lewis children in the…
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Hatton Post Office
The Hatton Post Office began operation at Brown’s Landing (now called Hatton) in late 1883. The postal facility sat just inside the front door of Brown’s Store and contained walnut mail boxes (shown above) for its customers and a wooden window through which mail and stamps were dispensed. Although a post office most often assumes…
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Scottsville Volunteer Fire Department’s 75th Anniversary
by Marianne Ramsden Scottsville made a concerted effort to keep the town safe from fires since the beginning of the 1900’s. A bucket brigade formed in 1905, and the town fire hydrants were installed in 1916. That same year, the volunteer fire fighters raised enough money to buy two fire hose reel carts. These carts…
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Scottsville Brick Company at Snowden
The Scottsville Brick Company was once located on Snowden’s low grounds, just across the James River from Scottsville. Snowden’s long frontage along the James River contained rich siliceous sand which produced superior quality bricks. The initial company, Scottsville Sand and Silica Co., Inc. was formed on February 21, 1920, and, later that year on December…
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Traveler’s Rest Hotel
The Traveler’s Rest was a wood-framed hotel built about 1909 by Jacinto V. Pereira, who was also the President of Fidelity Nationial Bank on Valley Street. The leading hotel in Scottsville for 67 years, the Traveler’s Rest contained nineteen hotel rooms with two bathrooms on each floor. The dining room sat approximately sixty people at…
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Jack Manahan ~ Twilight Tours 2017
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…
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Irene Langhorne Gibson ~ Twilight Tours 2017
Just a week to the 2026 Twilight Tours! We’ll be 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/ For the 2017 Twilight Tours, Irene Gibson, portrayed by Miranda Burnett, was one of the famous “Gibson Girls” of the 1890s. Charles…
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Snowden Dairy
In January 2014, Angela Erickson of Lexington, N.C., contacted Scottsville Museum to tell us that she and her husband had been digging around an old railroad track in the Lexington area. Quite by surprise, they uncovered an old milk bottle, which was slug-plated “Snowden Dairy, Scottsville, VA,” as shown in the above photo. Angela said…
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Main Street Businesses Flooded ~ 1913
A rider on horseback wades through the high flood waters on Main Street. This 1913 flood ranked as the 8th highest recorded flood in Scottsville’s history with flood waters measuring at 25.16 ft. over flood level. Left to Right, these Main Street buildings are: Copyright © 2018 by Scottsville Museum Image Located On: Capturing Our…
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