Cooperative Living November/December 2018 - 32
Crossroads | Story and photos by Audrey T. Hingley, Contributing Writer
Peace,
quiet and
soapstone
SCHUYLER, VA
Schuyler
Nelson County hamlet of about 300
people traces its roots to the 1840s.
A 40-minute drive southwest from
Charlottesville on modern highways
and country roads leads to Schuyler, a
Nelson County hamlet of about 300
people tracing its roots to the 1840s.
Originally known as Walker's Mill,
the village was named for Schuyler's first
postmaster, Schuyler George Walker.
Located on one of the world's largest
soapstone veins, the Historic District
encompasses over 100 buildings around
the crossroads of Schuyler Road,
Rockfish River Road and Salem Road in
the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
From its evolution as a soapstone
center in 1883 with mostly companyowned
(and built) homes fanning out in
a loop, Schuyler (pronounced Sky-ler) is a
shadow of itself from the 1920s, when
Alberene Soapstone operated on 6,000
acres with 1,500 employees toiling at the
labor-intensive plant. Long gone now, the
short-line Nelson & Albemarle Railroad
served quarries, and provided passenger
service via a C&O Railroad connection.
Amid scattered homes and churches,
Old chimney at Alberene Soapstone.
Schuyler still has what may have attracted
early settlers: peace, quiet and soapstone.
It also has The Waltons TV show mystique,
since writer/show creator Earl Hamner Jr.,
who died in 2016 at age 92, grew up here.
Based on Hamner's real-life family and
his Depression-era growing-up years,
his TV movie The Homecoming (1971)
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Sign for Walton's Mountain Museum, which
opened in 1992 and is housed in the building
that once served as Schuyler's elementary
and high school. Over 17,000 people visited
the museum in 2017.
spawned the Emmy-winning The Waltons
TV series (1972-'81) and six television
movies that followed (1982-'97). Thanks
to reruns, DVDs and internet sites keeping
the show alive decades after its first airing,
people from all over the world come to
Schuyler to experience the place that
inspired The Waltons.
" We had 17,000 visitors last year, "
says Leona Roberts, 86, director of
Walton's Mountain Museum, which
opened in 1992 in Schuyler's former
elementary and high school building.
" People come and say 'I wish I had a
family like that' - or that they were
brought up like that. "
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