On Interstate 64 at milepost 103.5, on the right when traveling east.
The monument before you honors Virginia state highway workers who lost their lives while serving the Commonwealth’s travelers. No public funds were used to build this memorial. It was built entirely with donations from Virginia Department of . . . — — Map (db m26332) HM
On Ivy Road (U.S. 250) at Owensville Road (County Route 678) on Ivy Road.
Half a mile north was born, 1774, Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, sent by Jefferson to explore the far west, 1804–1806. The expedition reached the mouth of the Columbia River, November 15, 1805. — — Map (db m1795) HM
On Ivy Road (U.S. 250) east of Three Notched Road (Virginia Route 240). Reported missing.
Late in April 1862, Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson marched his army out of the Shenandoah Valley through the Blue Ridge Mountains to deceive Union Maj. Gen. John C. Fremont into thinking he was headed for Richmond. On 3 May, Jackson . . . — — Map (db m230172) HM
On Ivy Road (U.S. 250) 0.1 miles west of Gillums Ridge Road (Virginia Route 787), on the right when traveling west.
During the Shenandoah Valley Campaign (March - June 1862) Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson used deceptive maneuvers and sharp attacks to divert Union forces from the Peninsula Campaign against Richmond. Late in April, Jackson's . . . — — Map (db m209781) HM
On Gordonsville Road (Route 231) 0.1 miles south of Millwood Lane (County Road 783), on the left when traveling south.
The vestry of Fredericksville Parish commissioned a church for this site in 1745. First known as Middle Church, the wood-frame building was later called Walker's Church. Thomas Jefferson attended the nearby classical school of the Rev. James Maury, . . . — — Map (db m170120) HM
On Louisa Road (Route 22) just west of Keswick Road (County Road 731), on the left when traveling west.
Beautification in memory of
Marjorie S. Twohey
Founding member of the
Keswick Garden Club
First president of Charlottesville Council of Garden Clubs
[Lower plaque:]
This plaque commemorates the 50th anniversary of the . . . — — Map (db m170121) HM
On Louisa Road (U.S. 22) at Keswick Road (County Route 731), on the right when traveling west on Louisa Road.
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 . . . — — Map (db m17447) HM
On Virginia Route 231 north of Lindsay Road, on the left when traveling north.
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 . . . — — Map (db m17459) HM
On Miller School Road (County Route 635) close to Dick Woods Road (County Route 637), on the left when traveling south.
A bequest of Samuel Miller (1792–1869) provided funds to found the Miller School in 1878. Miller, a Lynchburg businessman born in poverty in Albemarle County, envisioned a regional school for children who could not afford an education. The school . . . — — Map (db m21699) HM
On Plank Road (County Route 692) at Monacan Trail Road (U.S. 29), on the right when traveling west on Plank Road.
Named for the community it served. This established church of old St. Anne’s Parish was built on a hill about one half mile east as early as 1769. In 1776 there were plans to build nearby a new, brick church. This new church had not been completed . . . — — Map (db m158048) HM
On Proffit Road (County Route 649) near Mossing Ford Lane (County Route 741), on the right when traveling south.
Ben Brown and other newly freed slaves, who
founded the community after the Civil
War, first named the settlement Egypt and then Bethel.
About 1881, the community became known as Proffit when the Virginia Midland Railway placed
a stop here, . . . — — Map (db m16946) HM
On Belvedere Boulevard, 0.1 miles east of Belvedere Place, on the right when traveling east.
Free State, a community of free African Americans, stood here. Its nucleus was a 224-acre tract that Amy Farrow, a free black woman, purchased in 1788. Her son Zachariah Bowles lived here and married Critta Hemings of Monticello, an older sister of . . . — — Map (db m170663) HM
On East Main Street (Virginia Route 6) east of Valley Street (Virginia Route 20), on the left when traveling east.
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 . . . — — Map (db m17995) HM
On Irish Road (Virginia Route 6) at James River Road, on the right when traveling west on Irish Road.
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 was . . . — — Map (db m88501) HM
On Valley Street (Virginia Route 20) at Main Street (Virginia Route 6), on the left on Valley Street.
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 . . . — — Map (db m17894) HM
On West Main Street just west of Valley Street (Virginia Route 20), on the left.
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 . . . — — Map (db m17948) HM
On East Main Street (Virginia Route 6) just east of Valley Street (Virginia Route 20), on the right when traveling east.
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 the
James . . . — — Map (db m17844) HM
On Hardware Street (Virginia Route 795) 0 miles north of Valley Street (Virginia Route 20).
In memory of the soldiers who died in the Confederate General Hospital in Scottsville
1862-1863
Beattie, F.M. Co. H 23 NC
Boyle, Andrew Co. D 41 VA
Brashear, Denis P. Co. E 4 AL
Clark, Henry Co. E 15 AL
Clark, Hosey L. Co. F 2 MS . . . — — Map (db m22784) HM
On James River Road (Virginia Route 742) 0.2 miles east of Warren Ferry Road, on the right when traveling east.
Just to the south was Mount Warren, the home of Wilson Cary Nicholas. He served in the Continental army, represented Albemarle County in the General Assembly (1784–1789, 1794–1799), and was a delegate to the Virginia Convention of 1788 . . . — — Map (db m19406) HM
On Hatton Ferry Road, 0.5 miles south of Hatton Ferry Lane, on the right when traveling south. Reported missing.
Ferries In Virginia
The 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 . . . — — Map (db m14527) HM
On Hatton Ferry Road, 0.5 miles south of Hatton Ferry Lane.
History of Hatton Ferry.
The Hatton Ferry began operation in 1870, when Buckingham County authorities issued a court order to construct a public ferry across the James River to the Albemarle County lands of Thomas P. Gantt (ca. 1846-1896), a . . . — — Map (db m99392) HM
On Hatton Ferry Road, 0.2 miles south of Hatton Ferry Lane, on the left when traveling south.
James A. Brown began operating a store and ferry at this site on rented property in the late 1870’s. In 1881 he bought the land from S. P. Gantt at which time the store became a stop on the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad. Two years later, Brown was . . . — — Map (db m12882) HM
On Richmond Road (U.S. 250) at Louisa Road (Virginia Route 22), on the right when traveling west on Richmond Road. Reported permanently removed.
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. — — Map (db m17335) HM
On Richmond Road (U.S. 250) east of Exit 124 (Interstate 64), on the right when traveling east.
Thomas Jefferson—author of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia—was born near this site on 13 April 1743. His father, Peter Jefferson (1708–1757), a surveyor, planter, and . . . — — Map (db m17306) HM
On James Monroe Parkway (County Route 795) 0.8 miles south of Thomas Jefferson Parkway (Virginia Route 53), on the left when traveling south.
This estate was the home of James Monroe, fifth president of the United States. In 1793, James and Elizabeth Kortright Monroe purchased 1,000 acres adjoining Jefferson’s Monticello. Called Highland, the plantation, eventually totaling 3,500 acres, . . . — — Map (db m23437) HM
On Thomas Jefferson Highway (Virginia Route 53) just east of Milton Road (County Route 732), on the right when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
The house was built about 1770 by workmen engaged in building Monticello. Mazzei, an Italian, lived here for some years adapting grape culture to Virginia. Baron de Riedesel, captured at Saratoga in 1777, lived here with his family, 1779–1780. . . . — — Map (db m21952) HM
On Thomas Jefferson Parkway (Virginia Route 53) just south of Colle Lane, on the right when traveling south.
Philip Mazzei, a Tuscan merchant and horticulturalist, arrived in Virginia in 1775 and was persuaded by Thomas Jefferson to settle here. Jefferson gave him 193 acres of land, and Mazzei named his property Colle (meaning "hill"). He built a house ca. . . . — — Map (db m170655) HM
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