Category: Collections
Artifacts and documents grouped by source or theme.
Some collections represent personal or family archives donated to the museum. Others are items with a common theme or creator from multiple sources.
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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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Bottles Tell Scottsville’s History
by Ruth KlippsteinScottsville MonthlySept. 15-Oct. 13, 2016 I have returned to talk to two of the important keepers of Scottsville memories, whose efforts to build and consolidate the historical record of our town have of our town have helped so much. Jack Hamner, who lives in the area, was born in Scottsville, became a collector…
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Race Day at the James River Valley Fair ~ 1890
Shown here is a Burgess panorama and the earliest photo in this collection. The James River Valley Fair grounds were located just west of Scottsville along the James River bottomland near the present Uniroyal Plant. First launched in 1883, the James River Valley Fair ran three days of horse racing with purses, jockey colors, and…
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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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Crossing the James River via the Scottsville Bridge
by Evelyn Edson, President Scottsville Museum Scottsville was founded in 1745 at the horseshoe bend, a traditional crossing point where there was a gap in the bluffs lining the James River. I suppose most of us, who have lived in Scottsville for a while, have waded across the James when it was at its lowest…
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Auto Endurance Test on Valley Street ~ 1914
Dr. L.R. Stinson owned the first car in Scottsville, a two-cylinder, bright-red, 1910 Maxwell. Soon these ‘motorized carriages’ were rattling the plank floor on the new town bridge. Cars altered Scottsville’s way of life greatly, wiping out the ferry, carriages and carts, and the blacksmith shop and stable on the corner of Valley and Main…
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Passenger Train from Richmond
The passenger train from Richmond made four trips daily to Scottsville in 1915; each trip took three hours. This photo, taken by Burgess at the C&O Depot in Scottsville, shows the State Farmers Institute Train, which Virginia Polytechnical Institute outfitted with agricultural displays in the coaches. At each stop, local farmers boarded this train to…
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Train Spotting at Scottsville Depot
The James River Division of the Chesapeake and Ohio (previously property of the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad Company), was of great importance to Scottsville as it hauled freight, passengers, and the daily mail to town. As did the James River and Kanawha Canal before it, the C & O train connected Scottsville to the commercial…
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The Covered Bridge at Temperance Wayside
“We rattle through the Hardware River’s old-timey “rabbit burrow” bridge,” wrote Virginia Moore, talking about life in Scottsville between the wars. This was the covered bridge built about 1850 at Temperance Wayside where Highway 6 crosses the Hardware River. Sheridan’s departing troops had clattered over it in 1865. A painting by Cornelia Burgess Dorrier shows…
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