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• March 7 - An ACT to authorize a joint stock company to erect a town hall in Charlottesville was passed today by the Virginia General Assembly, and read as follows: “Be it enacted by the general assembly, that Valentine W. Southall, John Cochran, Thomas Wood, S. W. Ficklin, James W. Saunders, John R. Jones, and such persons as are or shall be associated with them for the purpose of building a town hall in Charlottesville, are hereby incorporated under the name of “The Charlottesville Town Hall Company.”

Charlottesville's Town Hall was designed by either Robert Mills or George Wilson Spooner, Jr. Construction started the following year. From the time of its design in 1851 until 1858, the building was run by the Town Hall Corporation, whose original members included Valentine W. Southall, John Cochran, Slaughter W. Ficklin, and James W. Saunders. The building would later became known as the Levy Opera House.