Category: 1900’s
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Dr. J.P. Blair’s Dental Office
Dr. Blair operated his dental office on the second floor of this white building, located beside Mink Creek on the south side of Main St. The creek ran under this bridge on Main Street, and, as Mayor Raymon Thacker remembers, everytime Mink Creek flooded, the Blair and Moon (next door) buildings filled with muddy water.…
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Scottsville Town Council ~ 1900
This Scottsville Town Council, like others before and since, was made up of prominent local businessmen. Shown above are the following council members: Top Row (L to R): Dr. Joseph P. Blair, Tom Heath, Jackson Beal, Thomas A. FoxBottom Row (L to R): Jacinto V. Pereira, Peter Foland, W.E. Moon Jacinto V. Pereira was President…
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Jacinto V. Pereira ~ Bank President
Jacinto V. Pereira was an Englishman, who operated the Fidelity Bank in Scottsville. Shown here in his bank office, Mr. Pereira also served on the Scottsville Town Council and built the Travelers’ Rest Hotel on Main Street, where he resided until his death in January 1925. In 1940, the old Fidelity Bank and two other…
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Jefferson Mills
Jefferson Mills, located on the Hardware River approximately three miles northeast of Scottsville, was built about 1800 and is a brick structure with four floors supported by huge handworked wooden beams. The mill originally was run by an overshot wheel that was fed from a stone dam twenty feet above the riverbed. Jefferson Mills’ original…
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The Viscountess Lady Astor ~ Nancy Langhorne Astor
Nancy Langhorne began her life in 1879 in a crowded house in Danville, VA, the fifth of her parents’ eleven children. The Langhornes of Lynchburg had been wealthy before the Civil War, but, like so many others, faced straitened circumstances in the post war period. Nancy’s father, Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, was working as a tobacco…
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Doctor Percy Harris, Sr.
Shown in this 1915 photo, Dr. Percy Harris, Sr. stands beside his Maxwell car on West Main Street with Valley Street behind him. The building just behind his right elbow is W.F. Paulett Lumber and at the photo’s left is a three-storied, white building called the Travelers’ Rest Hotel. Percy enrolled in the Medical College…
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J.B. Tindall’s Groceries
James Benson Tindall, Sr., began his career as a businessman at Brown’s Landing (now Hatton) in 1906 when he rented Brown’s Store and renamed it ‘J. B. Tindall’s Groceries.’ In 1914, Tindall purchased the store from Brown’s descendants and managed it until his death in 1945. This store was built on a strong foundation comprised…
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Scottsville Flour Mills
The Scottsville Flour Mills was a five-story building, located at Main and Ferry Streets in Scottsville. It was a state-of-the-art mill that was built about 1910 and ran with steam. Arthur Thacker managed the mill for Captain John Pitts, its owner, from 1911-1917, until his health worsened due to breathing flour dust in the mill.…
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Butler’s Harness, Coffin, and Casket Store
This photograph shows Butler’s Harness, Coffin, and Casket Store at 440 Valley Street in Scottsville. The building was also known as Butler’s Funeral Home because of its coffin/casket services. John Wesley Butler ran this business and made caskets, harnesses, and other leather goods at his store. The store sign, posted on the tree in front…
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Corner of Valley and Main Streets ~ 1915
Shown here are Scottsville’s tranquil Valley and Main Streets in the early 1900’s before automobiles changed the landscape and traffic patterns. See the image below as a guide to these specific buildings: Copyright © 2018 by Scottsville Museum Image Located On: Capturing Our Heritage, CDB17B72cdB17.tifB72cdB17.jpgB72cdB17.psd
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