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*[[Banbury Street]] - unknown
*[[Banbury Street]] - unknown
*[[Barbour Drive]] - unknown
*[[Barbour Drive]] - unknown
*[[Barksdale Street]] - The [[Barksdale family]], prominent Albemarle and City of Charlottesville family dating back to the early 1700’s. Members of the family included a soldier in the Revolutionary war. W. R. Barksdale (1828 - 1912) was in JEB Stuart’s command, wounded at the battle of Yellow Tavern in the same engagement in which Stuart was killed. His sons, James Barksdale and John Barksdale, were partners with John Fry to invest in small lots in the neighborhood.   
*[[Barksdale Street]] - The [[Barksdale family]], prominent Albemarle and City of Charlottesville family dating back to the early 1700s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Albemarle County In Virginia|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028785703|author=Rev. Edgar Woods|work=|publisher=The Michie Company, Printers |location=|publishdate=1901|accessdate=May 7, 2019}}</ref> Members of the family included a soldier in the Revolutionary war. W. R. Barksdale (1828 - 1912) was in Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart’s command, wounded at the battle of Yellow Tavern in the same engagement in which Stuart was killed. His sons, James Barksdale and John Barksdale, were partners with John Fry to invest in small lots in the neighborhood.   
*[[Barracks Road]] – The [[Albemarle Barracks]], a prisoner-of-war camp for British prisoners during the American Revolutionary War.
*[[Barracks Road]] – The [[Albemarle Barracks]], a prisoner-of-war camp for British prisoners during the American Revolutionary War.
*[[Baylor Lane]] - unknown
*[[Baylor Lane]] - unknown

Revision as of 09:50, 25 October 2020

The following is a list of streets in City of Charlottesville and where there names are derived from.

Many of the names of these streets can be found on historic maps of Charlottesville.

Guide to streets

The system of numbering the streets is somewhat similar to the Washington plan. Each block represents 100 numbers, whether heading east, west, north or south. The city is divided into four sections.[1]

  • Fifth – South of 500 W Main Street
  • First – North of East Main and East of North First, or Northeast
  • Second – South of East Main and east of South First, or Southeast
  • Third – North of West Main and west of North First, or Northwest
  • Fourth – South from 402 West Main
  • Sixth-and-a-Half – South from 606 Dice
  • Seventh-and-a-Half – South from 620 Dice
  • Main – The dividing line between north and south streets, runs east from First to C & O Lower Depot, and west from First to University.
  • First – The dividing line between east and west streets, runs north and south from Main to city limits.

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In 1919, Stewart Fuller lived on Booker Street with his parents, Stewart & Alberta Douglas Fuller.

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The March 1909 edition of The Druid, the magazine published by the Ancient Order of Druids.

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Gitchells Studio.JPG

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View of Pen Park Plantation House, ca. 1897. In 1777, Dr. George Gilmer purchased the land and his family owned it until 1800. Originally the estate consisted of four thousand acres; by 1897 all had been sold off save the six hundred acres immediately about the house.

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Colonel Wertenbaker was a Civil War veteran, having served in the 19th Virginia Regiment

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Street name changes

  • Augusta Road - renamed Rosser Lane. Constructed sometime after 1938, it appeared as August Rd on the 1950 Census Enumeration Map of Charlottesville.[15]
  • Azalea Street - renamed to Manila Street to avoid confusion with nearby Azalea Drive

Extinct streets

  • Alphanso Street – ran north from Williams Street to Preston W first east of 10th NW
  • Apple Street – West of 601 Ridge Street
  • Cabell Street – parallel to Lee Street, subsumed by Pinn Hall at UVA Medical Center
  • Belmont Avenue (Rose Hill) - now Dale Aveue
  • Diggs - removed with the development of Garrett Square (now Friendship Court) (Sanborn Maps)
  • Fuller Avenue - renamed as part of Monticello Avenue, when Monticello was "redirected" to continue west instead of turning north on what is now Avon Street (Sanborn Maps)
  • Loudoun Road (ca. 1964) – (undeveloped street between Lewis Mountain and Thomson roads)[16]
  • Park Place Avenue – perpendicular to Lee Street, subsumed by Pinn Hall at UVA Medical Center
  • Parrot - removed with the development of Garrett Square (now Friendship Court) (Sanborn Maps)
  • Randall Street – parallel to Lee Street, subsumed by Pinn Hall at UVA Medical Center
  • Williams Street - on Sanborn Maps
  • Wyndhurst Circle and Wyndhurst Way, ca. 1920; precursors to the present-day Preston Place.[17]

Automobile Blue Book (1919)

Charlottesville, Virginia - Automobile Blue Book, 1919.JPG

References

  1. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000196692&view=1up&seq=33
  2. 2.0 2.1 Massie, Frank A., and Virginia School Company. A New and Historical Map of Albemarle County, Virginia. Owned and published by the Virginia School Company, 1907. https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/maps/items/u2716440
  3. Web. Albemarle County In Virginia, Rev. Edgar Woods, The Michie Company, Printers, 1901, retrieved May 7, 2019.
  4. Web. The Cabell Family, University of Virginia Special Collections Library, 2018
  5. Sheridan R. Barringer, Custer's Gray Rival, (Burlington, NC, 2019), 249.
  6. Web. Kenneth R. Crispell, 79, Dean And Health Expert on Presidents, New York Times, Aug. 26, 1996, retrieved 2020-10-14.
  7. https://uvamagazine.org/articles/the_golden_age_of_the_rooming_house_matrons
  8. Web. [1]
  9. Woods, E. (1901). Albemarle County in Virginia: giving some account of what it was by nature, of what it was made by man, and of some of the men who made it. Charlottesville, Va.: The Michie Company, printers. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Albemarle_County_in_Virginia/oX3hxtr5L24C?hl=en
  10. http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/students/projects/homesteads/genealogy/meriwethers.html
  11. http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?query=Roslyn&docId=uva-sc%2Fviu03696.xml&chunk.id=
  12. https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/104-0136/
  13. http://www.charlottesville.org/community/neighborhood-connection/10th-and-page
  14. http://www.c-ville.com/Rosey_homecoming/
  15. Web. 1950 Census Enumeration District Maps - Virginia (VA) - Charlottesville City - Charlottesville - ED 104-1 to 31, US Census Bureau
  16. https://v3.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2681176/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2681197/3799.5/4438.5/4/1/0
  17. https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/104-0048_Wyndhurst_2018_NR_Summary_Proposed_Relocation.pdf

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