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CHARLOTTESVILLE, a city and the county-seat of Albemarle county, Virginia, U.S.A., picturesquely situated on the Rivanna river, 96 m. (by rail) N.W. of Richmond in the beautiful Piedmont region. The city is served by the Chesapeake & Ohio, and the Southern railways, and is best known as the seat of the University of Virginia which was founded by Thomas Jefferson. Here are also the Rawlings Institute for girls, founded as the Albemarle Female Institute in 1857, and a University school. Monticello, Jefferson’s home, is still standing about 2 m. south-east of the city on a fine hill, called Little Mountain until Jefferson Italianised the name.[1]

Events

  • April – The Richmond City Council adopted a residential segregation ordinance.
  • The Anti-Saloon League reported that eight of the 19 cities in Virginia were dry, as were 145 of 161 towns. The rural areas of the state were almost entirely dry as well.

Deaths

Images

  1. Web. 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Charlottesville, staff, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911, retrieved July 28, 2019.