SCOTTSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Two hundred years ago, it was tobacco. The long, flat-bottomed batteau invented to transport the crop down the James River turned Scottsville into one of the biggest port cities in the early 19th-century Virginia. Now, with a 530-person population and a one-block downtown, Scottsville might not…Read More
150 years later batteaumen are once again bringing life to Scottsville
