{"nrhp_refnum":"76002093","name":"Scottsville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"VA 6","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scottsville","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":37.79954656250004,"lon":-78.49246726155707,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-07-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 115-acre historic district covering the town of Scottsville on the north bank of the James River at Horseshoe Bend, in Albemarle County with a small section in Fluvanna County, Virginia. It includes about 51 to 53 significant buildings, mostly from the late 18th to early 20th centuries.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Scottsville has kept its early character as a nineteenth-century river town despite prosperity, depression, war, floods and fire. It has a notable range of antebellum and postbellum commercial architecture, which is rare among Virginia towns, along with fine vernacular and sophisticated houses. The town was also an early county seat, a Revolutionary War supply depot, and a flour-trade center during the James River and Kanawha Canal era.","narrative":"Scottsville is a river town on the north bank of the James River at Horseshoe Bend, mostly in Albemarle County with a small eastern section in Fluvanna County. The district covers the whole town, 115 acres, and contains roughly 51 to 53 buildings of historic or architectural interest. They range from early frame cottages and warehouses on Main Street to brick commercial rows on Valley Street and Greek Revival houses and churches on Harrison Street. The town began with Edward Scott's 1732 land patent and served briefly as Albemarle County's seat. It was a Revolutionary War supply depot, and it prospered as a flour market after the James River and Kanawha Canal opened through it in 1840. Sheridan's cavalry destroyed the canal section and many mills in 1865, and later the railroad took over the towpath. Floods in 1969 and 1972 and fires in 1976 caused damage, yet the town kept its nineteenth-century character, which is the basis for its listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mixed styles including Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Edwardian and Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good. A February 1976 fire cleared an area at Valley and Main Streets and heavily damaged the Methodist Church. The Scottsville Flour Mill is still in operation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.564201-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/6793/41679345/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/76002093.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002093/9e32d16600-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002093/9e32d16600-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Nannette Turner from Virginia Beach Va, USA","credit_html":"Nannette Turner from Virginia Beach Va, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victory_Hall_(3497896583).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07001236","name":"Southern Albemarle Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/southern-albemarle-rural-historic-district-07001236/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679345","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713182"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/scottsville-historic-district-76002093/"}