Category: Architecture
Buildings and structures.
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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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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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Coleman Ball’s Blacksmith Shop
This Burgess stereograph shows Coleman Ball’s Blacksmith Shop at the corner of Ferry and Main Street. A stereograph was an almost identical side-by-side set of images of a single scene, viewed simultaneously through an optical device held to the eyes like a pair of binoculars. Each eye looked at a slightly different image, and the…
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Valley Street in Scottsville ~ 1912
Burgess took this photo looking northwest up Valley Street from the corner of Main and Valley Streets. The key below identifies these buildings on Valley Street in the photo above: (1) Carlton House – on the corner of Valley Street and West Main. This building housed three businesses in 1912: Dickinson Drugstore at the south…
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Scottsville Carriage and Repair Works
Philip Palm, an immigrant from Sweden, operated the Scottsville Carriage and Repair Works in the early 1900’s. In addition to making and repairing carriages, Palm upholstered furniture, repaired shoes, and made frames. He also made coffins and served as the town’s undertaker. By 1914, Phillip Palm and two business partners, L. Gordon White and Thomas…
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The Old Tavern
The Old Tavern is located on the north side of Scottsville’s Main Street and across the street from the Herndon House and Colonial Cottage. This two-story brick building shows the pioneer split-level composition of a single and double gallery, connected by a covered outside stair. Although the exact date of its construction is unknown, the…
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