Category: Commerce
Businesses and commercial enterprises.
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Tending the Bank Books
Susie was the wife of Dr. Joseph P. Blair, a Scottsville dentist and Town Council member. Lucy was the youngest of the four Power sisters and never married. For many years the Powers family ran the Scottsville Hotel on Valley Street. Copyright © 2018 by Scottsville Museum Image Located On: Capturing Our Heritage, CDB12B05cdB12.tifB05cdB12.jpgB05cdB12.psd
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Scottsville’s Post Office and Postmasters
The Masonic Building was built in 1914 and hosted the town’s post office on the bottom floor from 1915 until 1964 when the post office moved to its next location on West Main Street. Sam Gault served as Scottsville’s postmaster from 1893 to 1939. He was succeeded by Ashby Mayo in 1939, who retired as…
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Times Dispatch Touts Scottsville for New Industry ~ 1909
Date: April 11, 1909 Road Material in Great Abundance Local Capital Ready to Take Pot Luck With Outside Cash, An Old-Time Canal Town That Has Taken on New Life By Frank S. Woodson, Industrial Editor Scottsville, VA, April 10 – The town from which I am writing is not quite as old as Jamestown nor…
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Scottsville Courier
Details of Business and Social Life ~ 1897 Date: August 12, 1897 The Scottsville Courier was published beginning in 1877 and ceased publication in 1906. The August 12, 1897 edition of this newspaper listed its Editor and Manager as Frank T. Hill, with Frank C. Moon the associate editor and solicitor. This old newspaper listed…
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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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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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Little’s White Oil ~ Scottsville, VA, 1837-1866
Shown above are two bottles that were once filled with Little’s White Oil, a patent horse liniment compounded and patented by Theodore Wallis Little of Wayne County, NY. This liniment was manufactured and sold by the drug business established by Theodore with his brother, Charles Ebenezer Little, between 1837-1866. During this time period, Theodore also…
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Bank of Scottsville ~ 1852-1865
by Robert Tharpe The Virginia General Assembly passed an Act to establish the Bank of Scottsville in the County of Albemarle on March 12, 1849. James W. Mason, a notable Scottsville resident and builder of “Old Hall” was listed as a director. The Bank was not established then, however. Three years later, the Bank was…
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