A Tour of Scottsville - A Juneteenth Celebration!

Dear Friends: We're very pleased to invite you to join Preservation Piedmont for a tour of Scottsville on Saturday, June 24. This is part of a week of events in honor of Juneteenth in Southern Albemarle.

*  10:00AM: Meet at Union Baptist Church, 275 Hardware Street Extended to learn of the history of this African-American congregation that was formed right after the Civil War ended. The brief presentation will also mention the adjacent cemetery.  Several prominent African-Americans are buried there including Marguerite Ross Barnett, the first African-American Female President of a major university in the United States. * 10:45AM: Reconstruction: The Church & School Connection.  It's walking distance down to the former Washington/Rosenwald Segregated Negro School that is now a personal residence.  Architectural historian, Jody Lahendro, has surveyed and researched this structure thoroughly at Fisk University's Special Collections Library and documented its date of origin in addition to its community funding. *11:30AM:  View the…