1910
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Events
City of Charlottesville's population was 6,765.[1]
- January 1 – David Maurer is quoted in the Daily Progress: "[I]t only knocked out half the windows out of Mr. Flannagan's residence and the front of Cloud & Anderson's looked like it had been shelled with shrapnel." In response to the firing of one of the cannons in front of the Albemarle County Courthouse the previous night.[2]
- January 10 – Members of the Charlottesville Fire Department pack the chambers of the City Council meeting to hear a report about the potential of adding a business manager position to city government, as well as a proposal to grant the department more autonomy. There was also a discussion of whether Charlottesville should pass its own laws for Sunday closings. [3]
Deaths
- January 12 – An aged tailor with the last name Anderson is killed crossing a railroad trestle at North Garden. [4]
- March 29 – Thomas Lafayette Rosser (b. October 15, 1836) died at "Rugby Hall", his estate home on Preston Height's near the University of Virginia.
- April 19 – Edgar Woods
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References
- ↑ Web. 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Charlottesville, staff, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911, retrieved July 28, 2019.
- ↑ Maurer, David A. "New Year 2010 rang in with a mighty bang in Charlottesville." Daily Progress [Charlottesville] 3 Jan. 2010: C1-C2. Charlottesville Daily Progress. 3 Jan. 2010. Web. 3 Jan. 2010. <http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/lifestyles/columnists/yesteryears/article/new_year_2010_rang_in_with_a_mighty_bang_in_charlottesville/50559/>.
- ↑ Web. Firemen Want Powers Enlarged, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, January 14, 1910, retrieved January 14, 2023. Print. January 14, 1910 page 1.
- ↑ Web. [1], Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, January 14, 1910, retrieved January 14, 2023.