Category: 2000’s
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Disciples of Christ Church
Wishing to revive the pure Christianity of earlier times, a group of local Baptists broke away from their church in the early 1830’s. They formed the Disciples of Christ or Christian Church in Scottsville and chose as their first minister, Dr. James Turner Barclay. Although Dr. Barclay was a trained pharmacist and medical doctor with…
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Scottsville Baptist Church
Scottsville Baptists built their red brick church high on Harrison Street in 1840 with property and funds donated by Anna Maria (Barclay) Moon and her husband, Edward Harris Moon. Before the church was built, Anna held services for her family and slaves in her own home at Viewmont, near Carter’s Bridge. Interest in the Baptist…
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Saint John’s Episcopal Church
Saint John’s Episcopal Church is located at the north corner of Bird and Harrison Street in Scottsville. This white frame church with Gothic windows and a scrollwork vergeboard was built in 1875 and was the second church in Saint Anne’s Parish. The photo above is from an early William E. Burgess postcard; at right, Saint…
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Antioch Baptist Church ~ Fluvanna County
Antioch Baptist Church is located in Fluvanna County about 13 miles northeast of Scottsville near the intersection of Antioch Road and Rolling Road. The church was organized in 1858 by 18 charter members, and five acres of land were deeded to the church trustees by John H. and Mary H. Burgess for a church site.…
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Mt. Zion Methodist Church ~ Esmont
1700’s, 1800’s, 1900’s, 2000’s, Architecture, Churches, Communities, Esmont, People, Scottsville SunMt. Zion Methodist Church in Esmont began as a log meeting house built by the slaves of Benjamin Childress in 1828. When it was finished, Mr. Childress donated the house to the Methodist Conference. Later the congregation erected a brick building but because of a defective foundation, the church became unsafe, and the central part…
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Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is the oldest black congregation in the Scottsville area and was organized in 1865 by the Reverends Henry Smith and J. A. Doll. According to Virginia Moore in her book, Scottsville on the James, the first pastor was Rev. Smith, and the congregation held prayer meetings in homes until they bought two…
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Christ Church ~ Glendower
Christ Church, Glendower, is located just east of Keene, Virginia, and about 4 miles northwest of Scottsville. Erection of this church began in 1831 and is the work of William B. Phillips, a Jeffersonian workman who designed and built a variety of homes and public buildings in his mentor’s mode. Bishop William Meade of Virginia…
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Scottsville Methodist Church
In March 1832, the Scottsville Methodist Episcopal congregation purchased Lot 26 from Martin and Mildred Thacker for $150. This church property sat two lots east of Valley Street on the north side of Main Street and was deeded to the following church trustees: Lewis Mayo, Beverly Staples, Nathaniel Moon, Lelan Morris, Martin Tutwiler, Horatio I.…
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Scottsville Presbyterian Church
The congregation of the Presbyterian Church was organized first at Warren with six members on October 18, 1927, as part of the West Hanover Presbytery. The elders of the church were John B. Hart and Samuel Harris, and by 1830, this church had grown to sixteen members, thanks largely to the influence and support of…
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Robert Lee Bryan ~ Printer and Newspaper Man
Robert Lee Bryan was born on 21 January 1909 in Charlottesville, VA, and was the son of William Whitaker Bryan (1880-1930) and Addye (Beattie) Bryan (1886-1955). William Bryan ran a print shop called the Virginia Printing Company, and his son, Robert, started helping his father by running printing errands for him when he was only…
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