Home › Virginia › Fluvanna County

Fluvanna County, Virginia

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

16historic places

—earliest paper

1777formed

27,249pop. 2020

9cemeteries

1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 16 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1969; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Bremo Bluff, Palmyra, Columbia.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Virginia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Fluvanna titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 16 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

16 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bremo Plantation NHL	Bremo Bluff	District	1969
Bremo Slave Chapel	Bremo Bluff	Building	1980
Fluvanna County Courthouse Historic District	Palmyra	District	1971
Glen Arvon	Bremo Bluff	Building	1976
Glen Burnie	Palmyra	Building	2000
Gum Creek	Columbia	Building	2003
Laughton	Kents Store	Building	2002
Melrose	Fork Union	Building	2000
Oaks, The	Kents Store	Building	2001
Pleasant Grove	Palmyra	Building	2004
Point of Fork Arsenal	Columbia	Structure	1969
Point of Fork Plantation	Columbia	Building	1974
Rivanna Farm	Bremo Bluff	Building	2001
Seay's Chapel Methodist Church	Palmyra	Building	2012
Union Mills Canal Outlet Locks #1 and #2	Crofton	Structure	1999
Western View	Fork Union	Building	2002

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Fluvanna was formed in 1777 (1777-07-01) from Albemarle.

FLUVANNA created from ALBEMARLE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Fluvanna County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,921	4,623	6,704	8,812	10,353	10,802	9,050	8,547	7,088	7,121	7,227	10,244	20,047	27,249

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

9 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Antioch Cemetery	37.84602	-78.42244
Bowler Cemetery	37.73902	-78.29056
Bowles Cemetery	37.87217	-78.08519
Grace Cemetery	37.71653	-78.29722
Henson Cemetery	37.91523	-78.13239
Hope Cemetery	37.8789	-78.15316
O'Brien Cemetery	37.748	-78.25571
Oak Hill Cemetery	37.70708	-78.25333
Proffitt - Stratton Cemetery	37.74385	-78.37471

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Rasawek	37.75098	-78.16972
Trice	37.94931	-78.18056

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Trevilian Station	4,505	33.3 km	VA099

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

HMdb link

Marker text and photos from the Historical Marker Database (HMdb) are not embedded here. HMdb allows non-commercial reuse with attribution, but commercial/compensated use needs written permission; this is a commercial site, so we only link out.

Search HMdb for Fluvanna County, Virginia

Terms: hmdb.org/copyright.asp. Linking is encouraged by HMdb.