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History · Matoaca

A history of Matoaca,
then and now

Postcards, papers and photographs of Matoaca from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.

7old images & papers
1historic places
5recent photos
From Matoaca’s archive · credits on each photo

The story

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Olive Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

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Timeline

built from the dates on the items below
1910s7 items · A Suggestion for Dependent Widows. Mr…Commons
1920–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewA Suggestion for Dependent Widows…, 1911: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
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By decade

Matoaca, decade by decade

1910s7 items
A Suggestion for Dependent Widows. Mrs. Bessie Hicks, a widow in the mill settlement at Matoaca, Va. She has no childre…CommonsA Suggestion for Dependent Widows. Mrs. Bessie Hicks, a wid…1911Housing conditions are not very goodLOCHousing conditions are not very good1911A Suggestion for Dependent Widows. Mrs. Bessie Hicks, a widow in the mill settlement at Matoaca, Va. She has no childre…LOCA Suggestion for Dependent Widows. Mrs. Bessie Hicks, a wid…1911Group showing typical workers in the small mills of Virginia, while industry is at ebb-tide. Matoaca, Va. June 1911. Th…LOCGroup showing typical workers in the small mills of Virgini…1911Lawrence Purdie (right end) has been spinning in the mule room of the cotton mill at Matoaca, Va., for two years. His b…LOCLawrence Purdie (right end) has been spinning in the mule r…1911Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Va. Her husband has been a mill hand here for a long t…LOCMrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Mat…1911Mrs. Fannie Foster, a widow in the cotton mill at Matoaca, Va. The smallest girl has been in the mill for a year. The o…LOCMrs. Fannie Foster, a widow in the cotton mill at Matoaca, …1911
1920s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today5 photos
Matoaca, VA, USA - panoramio (3)CommonsMatoaca, VA, USA - panoramio (3)2015Matoaca, VA, USA - panoramio (2)CommonsMatoaca, VA, USA - panoramio (2)2015Matoaca, VA, USACommonsMatoaca, VA, USA2014Matoaca, VA, USA - panoramio (1)CommonsMatoaca, VA, USA - panoramio (1)2014VAMap-doton-MatoacaCommonsVAMap-doton-Matoaca2005
National Register of Historic Places

1 historic place in Matoaca

1 place in Matoaca is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

#243
In Virginiaby listings · the typical town has 1
1place listed1 building
0National Historic LandmarksNone here yet
1historic building protectedcounting each building in a district
1975first listedOlive Hill

Where they are

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Olive Hill
Buildings

When they were listed

The Register began in 1966.
Olive HillListed 1975Olive HillBuildingArchitecture
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places (05/22/2026) · styles from the National Archives catalog · photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as A Suggestion for Dependent Widows. Mrs. Bessie Hicks, a widow in the mill settlement at Matoaca, Va. She has no childre… (1911) and it appears here side by side.

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From Wikimedia Commons (6) and the Library of Congress (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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