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This article is a date listing important events for the year 1923.

Events

The Virginian restaurant opened in Charlottesville this year

• April 13 – (The 180th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth) Launch of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation announced at a celebration held at the University of Virginia. The Foundation's officially incorporated in New York City to purchase, preserve, and maintain Monticello as a memorial to Thomas Jefferson and his ideals. The Foundation eventually purchased Monticello from Jefferson Monroe Levy, whose family had owned the property since 1834.
• April 18 – The board of visitors of the University of Virginia held a special meeting at Dr. Alderman’s home on Carr’s Hill, in which the President took part in the transactions of business. Announcement of a bequest of $140,000 to the University of Virginia in the will of John Blackwell Cobb, appointment of Joseph Hudnut as professor of art and architecture in the place of Dr. Fiske Kimball and setting apart the entire University property, including Mount Jefferson, as a game preserve and resolutions were adopted instructing the department of game and inland fisheries to take the land over as a preserve. ($140,000 in 1923 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $2,471,171.93 in 2023, an increase of $2,331,171.93 over 100 years.)
• May 16 – Representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Young Men’s Business Club and the League of Women Voters met this afternoon in the office of the Chamber of Commerce to discuss the new Hog Ordinance recently proposed by the City Council.
• May 19 – The third day of the trial of Morton Shiflett for the killing of Scott Shiflett October 15th last in Blackwell’s Hollow was begun in the Circuit Court this morming at 9.30, Judge John W. Fishburne on the bench, with the defense introducing its few remaining witnesses on the stand.
• May 23 – The laying of the cornerstone of Neve Hall was held in the afternoon. In 2019, it became the new home of Potter's Craft Cider.
• June 13 – The Daily Progress ran an article titled: BIG EVENT AT “MERRY MILLS” A large and enthusiastic meeting of the City-County Committee in charge of the “Merry Mills” Fourth of July Celebration was held at the local Y. M. C. A.

Deaths

• January 16 – Dorothy Zenobia Lias dies in Albemarle County. A graduate of Jefferson Graded School and a resident of the Rose Hill neighborhood, Lias had her portrait photograph prominently featured in the “Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style and Racial Uplift” exhibit of Rufus W. Holsinger's photographs that was on display at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library from 2022 to 2023.
• December 24 – Anthony T. Buckner (father of George W Buckner)

Images

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  Costume Event to raise fund for purchase of Monticello. (The Star’s Daily Pictorial Page, The Evening Star, Washington, D. C., Wednesday, April 18, 1923)

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