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History · Unionville

Unionville’s history is
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The public archives hold no old photos of Unionville. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Unionville is an unincorporated community in Orange County, Virginia, United States. Unionville is 8 miles (13 km) east-northeast of Orange. Unionville has a post office with ZIP code 22567. Orange Springs was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Half of its homes were built before 1982.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Unionville yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

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Unionville, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today6 photos
Street sceneCommonsStreet scene2023Looking down the road into the center of townCommonsLooking down the road into the center of town2023Commercial intersectionCommonsCommercial intersection2023Bethlehem United Methodist ChurchCommonsBethlehem United Methodist Church2023A building which has seen better daysCommonsA building which has seen better days20232016-07-21 18 39 53 View north along U.S. Route 522 (Zachary Taylor Highway) just north of Virginia State Route 20 (Con…Commons2016-07-21 18 39 53 View north along U.S. Route 522 (Zachar…2016
National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Unionville is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Unionville has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Unionville, 2.3 miles away.

Unionville and the nearest listed places

Dashed line = Unionville. Tap a dot.
Mount Calvary Baptist ChurchMount SharonBloomsburyOrange SpringsLocust GroveWaddell Memorial Presbyterian Church

Closest to Unionville

Mount Calvary Baptist ChurchUnionville · Building2.3miMount SharonUnionville · Building3.8miBloomsburyOrange · Building4.4miOrange SpringsUnionville · Building5.4miLocust GroveUnionville · Building5.5mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Mount Calvary Baptist Church’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Unionville?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Unionville’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

Stories next door

nearby towns’ history
📜 Orange📜 Gordonsville📜 Culpeper📜 Louisa

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

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