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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Dawsons Shop. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Dawsons Shop to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Dawsons Shop, please Contact Us.
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Dawsons Shop (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Dawsons Shop. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Name Variations for Dawsons Shop ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
While the name of this community is Dawsons Shop, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Dawsons Shop may originally have been Dawson's Shop.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Dawsons Shop might be written as Dawson Shop.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Dawsons Shop is historic, it would have been located within present day Greene County.
To see how the shape of Virginia's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Greene County: Albemarle, Madison, Orange, Page & Rockingham.
Below are the counties that are near Dawsons Shop. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dawsons Shop:
- Greene County (The home county of Dawsons Shop)
- The following are listed by their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Stanardsville
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Kinderhook
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Kinderhook is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinderhook
- Quinque
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Quinque is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinque
- Amicus
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Amicus is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amicus
- Dawsonville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Dawsonville is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dawsonville
- Cedarmere ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cedarmere is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarmere
- Albemarle County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Advance Mills Village
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Advance Mills Village is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance Mills Village
- Advance Mills
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Advance Mills is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance Mills
- Advance Mills has also been known as:
- Fray's Mills
- Cedarmere
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cedarmere is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarmere
- Burnley
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Burnley is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnley
- Boonesville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Boonesville is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boonesville
- Earlysville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Gilbert
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Gilbert is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilbert
- Jefferson Village
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Jefferson Village is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Village
- Hollymead
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Hollymead is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollymead
- Free Union
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Logan Village
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Logan Village is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan Village
- Rosena
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Rosena is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosena
- Monacan Town ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Monacan Town is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monacan Town
- Augusta County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Grottoes
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Sampson
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Sampson is located in Augusta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sampson
- Crimora
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Weyers Cave
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Dooms
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Dooms is located in Augusta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dooms
- Charlottesville City
- The following are listed by their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Locust Grove
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Locust Grove is located in Charlottesville City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Grove
- Charlottesville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Belmont
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Belmont is located in Charlottesville City
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont
- Culpeper County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Waylands Mill
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Waylands Mill is located in Culpeper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waylands Mill
- Griffinsburg
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Griffinsburg is located in Culpeper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griffinsburg
- Norman
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Norman is located in Culpeper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norman
- Salem
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Salem is located in Culpeper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem
- Culpeper
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Eggbornsville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Eggbornsville is located in Culpeper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eggbornsville
- Homeland
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Homeland is located in Culpeper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homeland
- Rixeyville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Rixeyville is located in Culpeper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rixeyville
- Fluvanna County
- Lake Monticello
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Lake Monticello is located in Fluvanna County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Monticello
- Harrisonburg City
- Harrisonburg
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Louisa County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Meltons
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Meltons is located in Louisa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meltons
- Green Springs
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Green Springs is located in Louisa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Springs
- Medlock
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Medlock is located in Louisa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medlock
- Trevilians
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Trevilians is located in Louisa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trevilians
- Bells Crossroads
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Bells Crossroads is located in Louisa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bells Crossroads
- Louisa
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Madison County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Hood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Wolftown
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Ruth
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Ruth is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruth
- Aroda
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Aroda is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aroda
- Madison
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Radiant
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Radiant is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radiant
- Burnt Tree
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Burnt Tree is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Tree
- Syria
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Madison Mills
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Madison Mills is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison Mills
- Tryme
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Tryme is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tryme
- Peola Mills
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Peola Mills is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peola Mills
- Nelson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Afton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Durrett Town
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Durrett Town is located in Nelson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durrett Town
- Orange County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Barboursville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Montpelier Station
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Orange
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Gordonsville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Madison Run
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Madison Run is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison Run
- Grassland
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Grassland is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassland
- Rhoadesville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- True Blue
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- True Blue is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for True Blue
- Vulcan
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Vulcan is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulcan
- Danton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Danton is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danton
- Burr Hill
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Burr Hill is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burr Hill
- Page County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Verbena
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Verbena is located in Page County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verbena
- Shenandoah
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Marksville
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Marksville is located in Page County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marksville
- Stanley
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Leaksville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Leaksville is located in Page County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leaksville
- Luray
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Kimball
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Kimball is located in Page County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball
- Rappahannock County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Slate Mills
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Slate Mills is located in Rappahannock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Mills
- Scrabble
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Scrabble is located in Rappahannock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scrabble
- Woodville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Woodville is located in Rappahannock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
- Sperryville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Rediviva
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Rediviva is located in Rappahannock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rediviva
- Rockingham County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Swift Run
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Swift Run is located in Rockingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swift Run
- Elkton
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Berrytown
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Berrytown is located in Rockingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berrytown
- McGaheysville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Massanutten
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Montevideo
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Montevideo is located in Rockingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montevideo
- Goods Mill
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Goods Mill is located in Rockingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goods Mill
- Keezletown
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Cross Keys
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Massanetta Springs
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Massanetta Springs is located in Rockingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Massanetta Springs
- Lacey Spring
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Lacey Spring is located in Rockingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacey Spring
- Melrose
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Melrose is located in Rockingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose
- Linville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Linville is located in Rockingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linville
- Shenandoah County
- New Market
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Waynesboro City
- Waynesboro
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Dawsons Shop, see our County-by-County Page for Dawsons Shop.
Cemeteries Near Dawsons Shop ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dawsons Shop.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Dawsons Shop - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Dawsons Shop covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Gibbons Graveyard
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Eddins Graveyard
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Taylor Graveyard
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Shiflett Graveyard
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Stanardsville Public Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Breeden's Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Shelton Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Powell Graveyard
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Geer - Southard Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Dundee Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- McMullen Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (380 more) ...
- Mt. Coland Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Garth Graveyard
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Runkle Graveyard
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.
While we didn't find Dawsons Shop in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dawsons Shop.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Dawsons Shop, with the one closest to Dawsons Shop listed first.
- Stanardsville
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Hood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- McMullen
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- McMullen is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McMullen
- Amicus
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Amicus is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amicus
- Quinque
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Quinque is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinque
- Wolftown
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Fletcher
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Fletcher is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher
- Ruckersville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Dawsonville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Dawsonville is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dawsonville
- Advance Mills
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Advance Mills is located in Albemarle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance Mills
- Advance Mills has also been known as:
- Fray's Mills
- Rochelle
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Pratts
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Graves Mill
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Eheart
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Eheart is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eheart
- Swift Run
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Swift Run is located in Rockingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swift Run
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Dawsons Shop. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dawsons Shop.
Newspapers Published in Dawsons Shop ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 8 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dawsons Shop.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dawsons Shop, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dawsons Shop.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Dawsons Shop:
- Websites specific to Virginia
- Pages specific to Greene County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Albemarle County
- Augusta County
- Charlottesville City
- Culpeper County
- Fluvanna County
- Harrisonburg City
- Louisa County
- Madison County
- Nelson County
- Orange County
- Page County
- Rappahannock County
- Rockingham County
- Shenandoah County
- Waynesboro City
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Virginia
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Dawsons Shop, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Dawsons Shop) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |