Locust Thicket

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Maj. Samuel Scott (1754-1822), a Revolutionary War officer, bought land here in 1786 and established Locust Thicket, one of several plantations he owned nearby. About 30 enslaved African Americans labored on his properties. The existing house was likely built in the 1830s. During the Battle of Lynchburg, 17-18 June 1864, Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. Alfred Duffié engaged Confederates under Brig. Gen. John McCausland near here, leaving the house scarred. Among those buried in the Locust Thicket cemetery are Maj. Samuel Scott and his wife, Ann, their son Beverly Roy Scott, who served in the War of 1812, a Union cavalryman killed during the Battle of Lynchburg, and a Confederate veteran.

Department of Historic Resources, 2017

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Locust Thicket, draft NRHP nomination (1986) Scott Family Cemetery, www.findagrave.com Travis McDonald, “Notes on the Investigation of Locust Thicket, Lynchburg, Va.” (2013) Peggy J. Spinks and J. B. Spinks, “Locust Thicket, Home of Major Samuel Scott and Ann Scott” S. Allen Chambers Jr., Lynchburg: An Architectural History (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981). “Report of Brig. Gen. Alfred N. Duffié,” Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, ser. 1, vol. 37, 139-143. George S. Morris and Susan Foutz, Lynchburg in the Civil War (1984). John S. Salmon, The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001).