[3] Christ Church Glendower is located in Keene, built of brick in 1831 in the Roman Revival style.

It features a full Doric order entablature with pediments at each end containing lunette windows, and is surrounded by a contributing cemetery.

In the second quarter of the 18th century, European settlement expanded upstream following the James River into the area which today comprises Albemarle County.

[6] Scott's Landing (which became Scottsville) is now split between Fluvanna and Albemarle Counties, but was once a major port on a horseshoe bend of the James River, particularly during the heyday of the James River Canal, which opened in 1840 and became unnavigable during the American Civil War.

Meanwhile, the state-established Church of England established parishes to serve citizens' religious needs, as well as social functions including taking care of the poor and disabled.

[8] He diligently traveled among three widely spaced churches and established several more places of worship served by four lay clerks (and occasionally himself) in the developing western portion.

Gavin initially bought slaves to work the 150 acres he received upon emigrating to Virginia, he came to oppose slavery as unchristian.

Rose died during a journey to Richmond (possibly initially intending to continue to Essex County).

Phillips.” William B. Phillips was a mason whom Thomas Jefferson employed and who also helped build the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

His design for Christ Church reflects the classical influences of Thomas Jefferson's architecture (as seen in the University of Virginia and his residence, Monticello).

Christ Church Glendower received much-needed structural renovations and an electric organ in 1961, and celebrated its 150th anniversary on June 6, 1982.

The entire riverfront town having been burned and all but two churches destroyed by General Sheridan's troops in a raid in March 1865; St. John's was rebuilt in the Gothic Revival style in 1875.

Also a frame building, it has Gothic windows and an asymmetric belfry, and was built in 1914 by James Marmaduke Branham, who became a vestryman.

Esmont was a plantation owned by Dr. Charles Cocke (who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly before the American Civil War) and later became an African American community; the area developed around a slate quarry and Chesapeake and Ohio Railway depot around 1900 and was among the country's largest soapstone producers by 1920, but closed in 1960.

[3] In 1971, Christ Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its architectural integrity as an example of Jeffersonian neoclassical design.