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*[[Perry Drive]] - unknown
*[[Perry Drive]] - unknown
*[[Peterson Place]] - unknown
*[[Peterson Place]] - unknown
*[[Piedmont Avenue North|Piedmont Avenue North/South]] - geography; "Piedmont" comes from the Italian word "Piemonte", meaning foothill.
*[[Piedmont Avenue North|Piedmont Avenue North/South]] - toponym or Piedmont plantation owned by the Maury family; "Piedmont" comes from the Italian word "Piemonte", meaning foothill, and Charlottesville is in the Piedmont region of Virginia.
 
:The northern Piedmont is a triangle between Washington, DC, Richmond, and Charlottesville.


*[[Pine Street]] - botanical name, parallel to Elm Street and Cherry Avenue
*[[Pine Street]] - botanical name, parallel to Elm Street and Cherry Avenue
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*[[Rialto Street]] - unknown
*[[Rialto Street]] - unknown
*[[Ricky Road]] - unknown
*[[Ricky Road]] - unknown
*Ridge-Mcintire Road - unknown
*Ridge-Mcintire Road - named for connecting Ridge Street and McIntire Road
*[[Ridge Street]] - self-explanatory (topography)
*[[Ridge Street]] - toponym, as street runs along a ridge extending away from downtown Charlottesville
*[[Ridgecrest Drive]] - self-explanatory (topography)
*[[Ridgecrest Drive]] - toponym
*[[Rio Road]] - unknown
*[[Rio Road]] - for leading to [[Rio Mills]] and the [[Rivanna River]]
*[[Rivanna Avenue]] - [[Rivanna River]]
*[[Rivanna Avenue]] - [[Rivanna River]]
*[[River Court]] - [[Rivanna River]]
*[[River Court]] - [[Rivanna River]]
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*[[St Charles Avenue]] - unknown
*[[St Charles Avenue]] - unknown
*[[St Charles Court]] - unknown
*[[St Charles Court]] - unknown
*[[St Clair Avenue]] - unknown
*[[St Clair Avenue]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_of_Assisi Clare of Assisi]
*[[St George Avenue]] - unknown
*[[St George Avenue]] - unknown
*[[St James Circle]] - unknown
*[[St James Circle]] - unknown

Revision as of 22:38, 24 October 2020

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

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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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.[14]
  • 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)[15]
  • 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.[16]

Maps of Charlottesville Streets or Namesakes

Town of Charlottesville Map (1818)

Cpl1818.jpg

Green Peyton Map (1875)

Notable on this map are Early, Goodman, Michie, Meadow Brook, Pen Park, Franklin, Moore, Carleton, Monticello, and numerous others.1875 green peyton map excerpt.jpg

Massie Map (1907)

1907-massie-map-cville.jpg

Sanborn Fire Maps (19??)

Available from the Library of Congress as 27 images here. 1907-Sanborne-Insurance-Map-1.jpg

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. The Cabell Family, University of Virginia Special Collections Library, 2018
  4. Sheridan R. Barringer, Custer's Gray Rival, (Burlington, NC, 2019), 249.
  5. Web. Kenneth R. Crispell, 79, Dean And Health Expert on Presidents, New York Times, Aug. 26, 1996, retrieved 2020-10-14.
  6. https://uvamagazine.org/articles/the_golden_age_of_the_rooming_house_matrons
  7. Web. [1]
  8. 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
  9. http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/students/projects/homesteads/genealogy/meriwethers.html
  10. http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?query=Roslyn&docId=uva-sc%2Fviu03696.xml&chunk.id=
  11. https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/104-0136/
  12. http://www.charlottesville.org/community/neighborhood-connection/10th-and-page
  13. http://www.c-ville.com/Rosey_homecoming/
  14. Web. 1950 Census Enumeration District Maps - Virginia (VA) - Charlottesville City - Charlottesville - ED 104-1 to 31, US Census Bureau
  15. https://v3.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2681176/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2681197/3799.5/4438.5/4/1/0
  16. https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/104-0048_Wyndhurst_2018_NR_Summary_Proposed_Relocation.pdf

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