Category: Architecture
Buildings and structures.
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C. B. Harris and Co.
The C.B. Harris Co. was a men’s clothing store operated by Charles Bascom Harris, Jr. in Scottsville. Charles (1883-1959) was the grandson of Miletus Harris, a merchant and wheelwright, who owned this three-storied Harris Building by 1860. Miletus also operated a mercantile store in this building, located across the street from the Scottsville Methodist Church…
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The Dew Drop Inn
by Evelyn Edson The Dew Drop Inn went through a number of different owners. John Pearce remembers when it was a high school hangout in the 1950’s with plenty of loud rock n’ roll blaring from the jukeboxes. He used to get a Dixie cup of ice cream that he ate with a wooden spoon.…
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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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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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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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The Harris Building
The Harris Building, located at 474-476 Valley Street, was built circa 1840 as a commercial building with living quarters on the second floor. When her husband, Lafayette Harris, died in 1856, Martha J. (Minor) Harris began a millinery and dry goods store here to support herself and her three daughters, Florence, Nannie, and Etta. The…
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William ‘Billy’ Samuel Beal
William ‘Billy’ Samuel Beal was born in 1846 in Scottsville and was the son of Joseph R. and Mary E. (Flannagan) Beal. Growing up in Scottsville, Billy worked as a clerk in his father’s general store, located in the Beal Building at the south corner of Bird and Valley Streets. When his father died in…
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Colonel Henry Gantt of Valmont
by Richard Ludlam Nicholas “On the afternoon of July 3, 1863, Henry Gantt bravely led the regiment assigned to Garnett’s Brigade of Pickett’s Division up Cemetery Ridge in the battle of Gettysburg – arguably the most famous charge in American history.” Perhaps the most overlooked and forgotten man in Scottsville’s history is Colonel Henry Gantt,…
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The Scottsville Bridge
This landscape with Scottsville in the background shows the wooden bridge, built in 1907, which replaced Scott’s Ferry as the medium for transporting traffic to Scottsville from Buckingham Co. This bridge remained until 1968 when a new concrete one replaced it. See the image below as a guide to points of interest: Copyright © 2018…
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