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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.

Charlottesville is a trade centre for the surrounding country; among its manufactures are woollen goods, overalls, agricultural implements and cigars and tobacco. The city owns its water-supply system and owns and operates its gas plant; an electric plant, privately owned, lights the streets and many houses.

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.

Births

• January 11 – Jack Burnley is born in New York City. An influential illustrator who co-created the superhero known as Starman alongside writer Gardner Fox and became the first artist (with the exception of the character's co-creator Joe Shuster) to draw Superman in comic books, Burnley retired in Charlottesville with his wife in 1981.

Deaths

• May 2 – Major (CSA) James McDowell Carrington, in Providence Hospital, Washington, DC (aged 72); prominent attorney at the National capital; among the earliest to enlist in the military forces of Virginia; brilliant career in the army of General Lee as an artillery officer of the Charlottesville Light Artillery. Enlisted on 3/15/1862 at Charlottesville, Virginia as a Captain; 3/15/1862 he was commissioned into Charlottesville Light Artillery. Attended the University of Virginia (1856-1860); never married; son of General Edward Codrington Carrington (1748–1810) and "Eliza" Henry Preston Carrington (sister of Col. Thomas Lewis Preston); kin by marriage of his nephew to Major general (CSA) Thomas L. Rosser's eldest daughter.