Category: People
People of interest or influence in the town and surrounding region. Family histories, notable individuals, and historic figures.
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Scottsville Brick Company at Snowden
The Scottsville Brick Company was once located on Snowden’s low grounds, just across the James River from Scottsville. Snowden’s long frontage along the James River contained rich siliceous sand which produced superior quality bricks. The initial company, Scottsville Sand and Silica Co., Inc. was formed on February 21, 1920, and, later that year on December…
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Traveler’s Rest Hotel
The Traveler’s Rest was a wood-framed hotel built about 1909 by Jacinto V. Pereira, who was also the President of Fidelity Nationial Bank on Valley Street. The leading hotel in Scottsville for 67 years, the Traveler’s Rest contained nineteen hotel rooms with two bathrooms on each floor. The dining room sat approximately sixty people at…
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Jack Manahan ~ Twilight Tours 2017
Less than a week to the 2026 Twilight Tours! We’re posting highlights from past Tours to get you in the spirit in this season of spooks and spirits. Get details and tickets here:https://www.scottsvillemuseum.org/2026/09/09/twilight-tours-2026/ Jack Manahan, portrayed by Ralph Lewis, was University of Virginia professor of history and genealogy, and well known around Scottsville for his…
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Irene Langhorne Gibson ~ Twilight Tours 2017
Just a week to the 2026 Twilight Tours! We’ll be posting highlights from past Tours to get you in the spirit in this season of spooks and spirits. Get details and tickets here:https://www.scottsvillemuseum.org/2026/09/09/twilight-tours-2026/ For the 2017 Twilight Tours, Irene Gibson, portrayed by Miranda Burnett, was one of the famous “Gibson Girls” of the 1890s. Charles…
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Isaac A. Coles ~ Twilight Tours 2017
Less than two weeks to the 2026 Twilight Tours! We’ll be posting highlights from past Tours to get you in the spirit in this season of spooks and spirits. Get details and tickets here:https://www.scottsvillemuseum.org/2026/09/09/twilight-tours-2026/ For the 2017 Tours, Kit Decker portrayed Isaac A. Coles, a true native of Southern Albemarle from the prominent Coles family.…
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Snowden Dairy
In January 2014, Angela Erickson of Lexington, N.C., contacted Scottsville Museum to tell us that she and her husband had been digging around an old railroad track in the Lexington area. Quite by surprise, they uncovered an old milk bottle, which was slug-plated “Snowden Dairy, Scottsville, VA,” as shown in the above photo. Angela said…
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Dr. J.P. Blair’s Dental Office
Dr. Blair operated his dental office on the second floor of this white building, located beside Mink Creek on the south side of Main St. The creek ran under this bridge on Main Street, and, as Mayor Raymon Thacker remembers, everytime Mink Creek flooded, the Blair and Moon (next door) buildings filled with muddy water.…
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Scottsville Town Council ~ 1900
This Scottsville Town Council, like others before and since, was made up of prominent local businessmen. Shown above are the following council members: Top Row (L to R): Dr. Joseph P. Blair, Tom Heath, Jackson Beal, Thomas A. FoxBottom Row (L to R): Jacinto V. Pereira, Peter Foland, W.E. Moon Jacinto V. Pereira was President…
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Jacinto V. Pereira ~ Bank President
Jacinto V. Pereira was an Englishman, who operated the Fidelity Bank in Scottsville. Shown here in his bank office, Mr. Pereira also served on the Scottsville Town Council and built the Travelers’ Rest Hotel on Main Street, where he resided until his death in January 1925. In 1940, the old Fidelity Bank and two other…
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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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