Historical Sites Not on the Tour

William Sorrille House - 1850

The Sorrille family constructed a large frame dwelling just off Main Street on Madison Road. Along with a number of frame outbuildings, including a smokehouse and animal barn, this tract was an example of an urban farm. This is later known as the Moyers-Haught House.

McMullen House - 1858

A red brick farmhouse built by a McMullen family. This was a farm that is now the Child’s subdivision. There were several outbuildings, including a springhouse. The Pendleton Bickers family later occupied the property.

Stanardsville Baptist Church - 1928

Off of Route 230 is the Stanardsville Baptist Church. Oral testimony suggests that wood used in the construction of this Carpenter Gothic frame church was salvaged from a Baptist Church on Dundee Road near the South River. Additions to the Church were made in 1956 and several other renovations since then.

Stanardsville Cemetery - 1870

This cemetery is located on Celt Road, Route 622, about one-fourth of a mile southwest of the Court House. It is believed to have been owned by the Sorrille family. The earliest headstone marker is dated 1856. The cemetery has also been known as the Woodson Cemetery and Prospect Hill Cemetery. It has been used a public cemetery since around 1870.

William Monroe School Complex

The high school was named for William Monroe, an immigrant from Great Britain arriving in this area in 1769. In his will he stated that the money from his estate was to provide a trust fund for free education for the area youth. When Greene was formed from Orange County in 1838, the Greene Humane Society was incorporated to administer the portion of the trust fund allotted to Greene County. William Monroe High School opened in September 1925 with 75 students’ grades 1-12. It was a one-story frame white building. Today the complex has four red brick schools. Many renovations and additions have happened over the years to provide the modern and up to date educational facilities we have today.

Page/Jarrell House - 1903

Off of 230 is the Z.K. and Henrietta Page a Queen Anne Style home built in 1903. Z.K. Page was the County Clerk at the time.

Shiloh Baptist Church

This Carpenter Gothic African-American Church was built in 1907. The Church congregation was formed in 1862 during the Civil War.

African American Schoolhouse

The African American schoolhouse was built circa 1870 for grades 6-8

Confederate Cemetery

In April of 1862, Brigadier General Richard Ewell, who reported to Major General Stonewall Jackson, received the order “Take the Division and protect Swift Run Gap” (the low pass in the mountains that is the entrance to the Shenandoah Valley). Ewell and his ‘army’ of 8500 men began a hard, snowy march covering a total of 55 miles in 12 days, from Brandy Station (37 miles NE of here) to Elkton, across the Blue Ridge Mountains. On that march, the ‘army’ stopped here in Stanardsville, staying in two camps. The tired, poorly-equipped soldiers received care from local people, including medical care. Some soldiers died – either on the way here, while here, or on the onward journey. This marker commemorates at least 26 Civil War soldiers from Louisiana who died and are buried in the local area. We know their names but not much else about them. This stone was probably erected in 1865, at the end of the war.