The Schuyler Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located in

Schuyler, Virginia Schuyler ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Nelson County, Virginia, United States, close to Scottsville. The population as of the 2010 Census was 298.

. It comprises and includes 138 primary resources dating from its settlement period of the 1840s through the mid-20th century. A primary component are eight

soapstone Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a talc-schist, which is a type of metamorphic rock. It is composed largely of the magnesium rich mineral talc. It is produced by dynamothermal metamorphism and metasomatism, which occur in the zo ...

quarries located in Schuyler, with eight additional located just over the

Albemarle County Albemarle County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is Charlottesville, which is an independent city and enclave entirely surrounded by the county. Albemarle County is part of the Charl ...

line. It represents a cohesive industrial community with the majority of its dwellings representative of vernacular regional building traditions. There is an "Executive Row" of dwellings overlooked the centrally located soapstone company from atop a bluff, with other quarry focused neighborhoods fanned out along adjacent hilltops. an
Accompanying photographs
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Schuyler Historic District Map
/ref> One of the older churches in the area is Schuyler Baptist Church organized in 1905. The cornerstone for the present building was laid on August 17, 1907 at 2:00 PM by Rockfish Lodge Number 108 A. F. and A. M. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2007.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Nelson County, Virginia Geography of Nelson County, Virginia Queen Anne architecture in Virginia Italianate architecture in Virginia Buildings and structures in Nelson County, Virginia {{NelsonCountyVA-NRHP-stub