Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
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The Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society (ACHS) is a private, non-profit educational organization founded in 1940 to study, preserve, and promote the history of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
ACHS' research library, administered by a librarian on the staff of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, contains over 2,000 books and bound periodicals, as well as thousands of photographs, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, newspapers, and vertical files. Its museum collection contains over 1,500 artifacts.
Since 1994, the Society has been located in downtown Charlottesville in the historic McIntire Building.
Board of Directors
- Steven G. Meeks, President
- Mark Bell, Vice President
- Robert W. Tharpe, Treasurer
- Jarrett D. Millard, Secretary
- Paul R. Brockman, Past President
- George Davies
- Christine Devine
- Raymond C. Doss
- Fred Dove
- Bobby Montgomery
- David Poist
- Lynn Rainville
- Leni Sorensen
- Don Swofford
- David Wayland
- Clara Belle Wheeler
Notes
About the Historical Society, ACHS website retrieved 12 July 2009.