Virginia's Palmyra

Virginia's Palmyra - Shiretown of Fluvanna
by David W. C. Bearr

Virginia’s Palmyra tells the story of this courthouse community situated on the banks of the Rivanna River in Fluvanna County. The author weaves together text with hundreds of archival and contemporary images by a cadre of photographers to achieve a sense of time and place that stretches from the nineteenth century to the present age. It is the record of an enduring legacy where often the best of the past and the present blend to make life a richer experience.

(Features story about Walker Timberlake's 1814 mill enterprise "at a place called Palmyra" that prospered and evolved into a new county seat for Fluvanna. Scenes include the Greek Revival courthouse and old stone jail - architectural gems created by John Hartwell Cocke of Bremo Bluff.)