Vanishing Villages: Bethel at Salt Creek

Name: Vanishing Villages: Bethel at Salt Creek
Start: 2025-03-19T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-19T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Sydnor Performance Hall

Schedule

Wed Mar 19 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Sydnor Performance Hall | Lynchburg, VA

Bethel's History, like that of many other frontier towns, was tied to a single family: the Davies. Join Paul Kilgore and Doug MacLeod as we learn more about this historic Amherst County community.
Paul Kilgore is a lifelong resident of Amherst County. He spent almost 30 years as a Firefighter
and Paramedic with the Lynchburg Fire Department, serving the last few years as a Battalion Chief. Concurrently with his fire service career he has been a real estate broker and investor focusing on Amherst County properties now for over 40 years. He has a keen interest in Lynchburg and Amherst County history. He is a board member of the Amherst County Museum and Historical Society as well as the Amherst County Economic Authority. He purchased almost 200 acres on the James River west of Lynchburg in Amherst County in 2017 that contains the ruins of the colonial era town of Bethel, later known as Salt Creek Va. He has been collecting the history of the property ever since.
Douglas MacLeod lives in Bedford Co. and has been writing local history for 30 years. He is a member of the Amherst and Campbell Co. Museums; a life member of the Va. Canals and Navigation Society; and assists in archiving Lynchburg Theater History at the Academy Center of Arts. He has written numerous articles for museum publications in Bedford; Amherst and Campbell Counties; Canal Society newsletters and Lynch’s Ferry magazine. His topics of interest are the James River & Kanawha Canal; local people, businesses or settlements often along the Upper James River above Lynchburg; covered bridges; early road systems and grist mills.