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- 1801 – Charlottesville incorporated as a town, the Virginia General Assembly authorized a government of five trustees who were to maintain streets, settle boundary disputes, authorize a market, quiet public nuisances, appoint a town clerk, and collect taxes to no more than $200.
- 1915 – Famed artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) sat for a portrait with Mr. Holsinger in his Charlottesville studio. While studying at the University of Virginia every summer from 1912 to 1916, she lived with her mother and two sisters in her mother’s boardinghouse on Wertland Street, a building that still houses students today.