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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBSF_barclay-house-and-scottsville-museum_Scottsville-VA.html
Here stands the Barclay House, built about 1830, later the home of Dr. James Turner Barclay, inventor for the U. S. Mint and missionary to Jerusalem. He founded the adjacent Diciples Church in 1846 and served as its first preacher. It is now the S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBRZ_hatton-ferry_Scottsville-VA.html
Five miles southwest of here is the Hatton Ferry on the James River which began operating in the 1870s. James A. Brown established the ferry and a store on land first rented and then purchased from S.P. Gantt in 1881. In 1883 when a post office wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBR9_hurricane-camille_Scottsville-VA.html
On August 20, 1969, flood waters of the James River rose to this point as an aftermath of Hurricane Camille causing great loss to the people of Scottsville. This plaque was erected to remind all who read it of the vulnerability of mortal man to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBPY_historic-scottsville_Scottsville-VA.html
In 1745 old Albemarle County was organized at Scott's landing, its first county seat, here on the great horseshoe bend of the James River. In 1818 the town was incorporated as Scottsville, beginning in 1840 it flourished as the chief port above Ri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBOM_scottsville_Scottsville-VA.html
At 3 p.m. on Monday, March 6, 1865, the first of Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's 10,000 cavalrymen under Gens. Wesley Merritt, Thomas Devin, and George A. Custer entered Scottsville unopposed. To accomplish their mission—destroy theJames Riv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBG9_general-thomas-sumter_Gordonsville-VA.html
Thomas Sumter was born on 14 Aug. 1734 in this region. Sumter, a member of the Virginia militia during the French and Indian War, moved to South Carolina in 1765. He served as a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army (1776-1778); in June 1780 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBF8_maurys-school_Gordonsville-VA.html
Just north was a classical school conducted by the Rev. James Maury, rector of Fredericksville Parish from 1754 to 1769. Thomas Jefferson was one of Maury's students. Matthew Fontaine Maury, the "Pathfinder of the Seas," was Maury's grandson.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBEW_southwest-mountains-rural-historic-district_Keswick-VA.html
Extending from the Orange County line on the north to the outskirts of Charlottesville with the Southwest Mountains forming its spine, this historic district encompasses more than 31,000 acres and contains some of the Piedmont's most pristine and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBBY_edgehill_Keswick-VA.html
The land was patented in 1735. The old house was built in 1790; the new in 1828. Here lived Thomas Mann Randolph, governor of Virginia 1819-1922, who married Martha, daughter of Thomas Jefferson.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9FL_ferries-in-virginia-thehatton-ferry-heritage_Scottsville-VA.html
Ferries In VirginiaThe James, York, Rappahannock and smaller rivers were the primary means of commercial transportation in Virginia until the advent of railroads in the mid-1800's. In most locations ferries provided the only way to cross these riv…
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