Scottsville, Virginia Scottsville, Virginia Location of Scottsville, Virginia Location of Scottsville, Virginia 2007 census map of Scottsville 2007 census map of Scottsville Scottsville is a town in Albemarle and Fluvanna counties in the U.S.
According to Scottsville's website, the town "served as Virginia's westernmost center of government and commerce amid the 1700s, when rivers were the major means of travel in the new American wilderness." Scottsville was the biggest port town along this route, called the James River and Kanawha Canal.
It did however succeed in making Scottsville a busy, prominent town.
In fact, thanks to a wagon road connecting Staunton to Scottsville, all of the agricultural richness of the Shenandoah Valley poured into town en route to Richmond and the sea, thereby making Scottsville the biggest grain market in the state.
Eventually, the train too stopped taking travelers, leaving Scottsville a sleepy nation town on a coal line.
Located near Scottsville, the Hatton Ferry serves as a cyclic crossing of the James River and has been the locale of a ferry since the late 1870s.
Scottsville was the place of birth of Thomas Staples Martin, who served five terms as a Democrat in the United States Senate representing Virginia. Born at Scottsville in 1847, Martin served in the Confederate Army, then went on to practice law. The Scottsville Historic District, Cliffside, High Meadows, Mount Ida, and Mount Walla are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. James River at Scottsville According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 1.5 square miles (4.0 km2), all land.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 22.2% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 29.7% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 17.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $30,903, and the median income for a family was $41,667.
Scottsville has been flooded a several times due to its adjacency to the James River.
Since 1870, Scottsville has been the victim of twenty-one floods (defined as water levels of twenty feet or more above the average low water level).
In 1985, the Army Corps of Engineers assembled a levee around the lowest portion of Scottsville, providing protection against further floods.
Raymon Thacker spearheaded the boss to build the levee starting after Hurricane Agnes to prevent any more floods affecting Scottsville.
Thomas Staples Martin, History of Virginia, University of Virginia Library Scottsville's Canal Basin Square Website Municipalities and communities of Albemarle County, Virginia, United States Municipalities and communities of Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States Virginia Towns in Virginia
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Towns in Albemarle County, Virginia - Towns in Fluvanna County, Virginia - Populated places on the James River (Virginia)
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