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Peter Jefferson's Snowdon: A History of Settlement at the Horseshoe Bend

Peter Jefferson's Snowdon: A History of Settlement at the Horseshoe Bend

Yeck, Joanne L.

Paperback

Series: Occasional Publications (Central Virginia Genealogical Association), Book 1

Regional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN13: 9798635444450
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 8 2020
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Beginning in the 1720s, a small group of men based in Goochland County, Virginia, began to migrate west, along the James River, settling the frontier which lay at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. A few stopped at what is known as the Horseshoe Bend, a particularly beautiful and fertile spot in the river. Today, the modern counties of Albemarle, Buckingham, and Fluvanna converge there at the village of Scottsville.In the early 1740s, President Thomas Jefferson's father, Peter, already a successful surveyor and land speculator, was quick to realize the commercial value of the spot when the newly formed Albemarle County located its seat at the Horseshoe Bend. This volume tells the story of settlement on the south side of the James River and the development of the plantation Peter Jefferson would call Snowdon, a very valuable farm with a complex history.

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