Free Union, Virginia

Free Union, Virginia

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Free Union, Virginia


map_caption = Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_name1 = Virginia
subdivision_name2 = Albemarle County
established_title = Nominally settled
established_date = 1761
named_for = Free Union Baptist Church
timezone = EST
utc_offset = -5
timezone_DST = EDT
utc_offset_DST = -4
latd= 38 |latm= 9 |lats= 17 |latNS= N
longd= 78 |longm= 33 |longs= 52 |longEW= W
elevation_m = 180
elevation_ft = 590

Free Union is a small unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States, ten miles north-northwest of Charlottesville. The area was first settled in the mid-1700s and became a part of Albemarle County in 1761. The village was originally referred to as Nicksville after a free slave blacksmith named Nick, who had opened a blacksmith's shop there in the early 1800s. When a post office was established in 1847, the name was changed to Free Union to avoid confusion with Nixville, another post office in the countycite web| title = Village of Free Union History| url=http://freeunion.com/history.html | accessdate = 2007-09-08] . The name was taken from that of the Free Union Church, which had been built in 1837 and is still operating as the Free Union Baptist Church. The church was "free" in that all races were welcome to worship there, and it was a "union" of four denominations of Christianity, none of which could have afforded a church of their own at that time.

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