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[[File:Holsinger-ACC-1912.jpeg|thumb|McKee Row (1912) can be seen on the left through the trees. Photograph courtesy of the Holsinger Studio Collection and UVA Special Collections]]
[[File:Holsinger-ACC-1912.jpeg|thumb|McKee Row (1912) can be seen on the left through the trees. Photograph courtesy of the Holsinger Studio Collection and UVA Special Collections]]


McKee Row was a majority Black section of businesses and residences{{fact}} directly west of the [[Albemarle County Courthouse]] in downtown Charlottesville. In [[1914]], the [[Albemarle County Board of Supervisors]] confiscated the land from its residents and granted it to the city, citing “rowdiness” that they believed could potentially impact white businesses.{{fact}} This was part of Charlottesville’s first gentrification project {{fact}}. A school for white children was planned for the space, and the buildings were torn down in [[1918]].{{fact}} <ref>{{cite web|title=Tools of Displacement|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/06/how-charlottesvilles-confederate-statues-helped-decimate-the-citys-historically-successful-black-communities.html|author=Abramowitz, Latterner, and Rosenblith|work=News Article|publisher=Slate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_(magazine)]|location=|publishdate=23 June, 2017|accessdate=May 28, 2021}}</ref> Instead, [[Paul Goodloe McIntire]] bought the land.{{fact}} He gave it back to the city in [[1919]], on the sole condition that it would be used as a park ([[Court Square Park]])to house and center a south-facing statue of Confederate general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.{{fact}}
McKee Row was a majority Black section of businesses and residences<ref>{{cite web|title=Marked By These Monuments|url=https://www.thesemonuments.org/|author= Drs. Andrea Douglas and Jalane Schmidt|work=Website|publisher=WTJU 91.1 FM|location=Charlottesville|publishdate=2019|accessdate=May 28, 2021}}</ref> directly west of the [[Albemarle County Courthouse]] in downtown Charlottesville. In [[1914]], the [[Albemarle County Board of Supervisors]] confiscated the land from its residents and granted it to the city, citing “rowdiness” that they believed could potentially impact white businesses.<ref>{{cite web|title=Marked By These Monuments|url=https://www.thesemonuments.org/|author= Drs. Andrea Douglas and Jalane Schmidt|work=Website|publisher=WTJU 91.1 FM|location=Charlottesville|publishdate=2019|accessdate=May 28, 2021}}</ref> A school for white children was planned for the space, and the buildings were torn down in [[1918]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Marked By These Monuments|url=https://www.thesemonuments.org/|author= Drs. Andrea Douglas and Jalane Schmidt|work=Website|publisher=WTJU 91.1 FM|location=Charlottesville|publishdate=2019|accessdate=May 28, 2021}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|title=Tools of Displacement|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/06/how-charlottesvilles-confederate-statues-helped-decimate-the-citys-historically-successful-black-communities.html|author=Abramowitz, Latterner, and Rosenblith|work=News Article|publisher=Slate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_(magazine)]|location=|publishdate=23 June, 2017|accessdate=May 28, 2021}}</ref> Instead, [[Paul Goodloe McIntire]] bought the land. He gave it back to the city in [[1919]], on the condition that it would be used as a park ([[Court Square Park]]) to house and center a south-facing statue of Confederate general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.<ref>National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service Form 10-900-a, 1996, Section 8 page 3, on deposit Albemarle County Historical Society “Monuments“ file and available online at: https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/104-0083_WestMainStreetHD_2017_NRHP_FINAL.pdf</ref>


This site had historically been a mixed-use space. In [[1828]], there was a printing shop, a dry goods and grocery store, a hatter’s shop, and a merchant’s shop, each with private residences above.<ref>{{cite web|title=Early Charlottesville: Recollections of James Alexander 1828-1874|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027788648&view=1up&seq=36&q1=Mckee%20Row|author=James Alexander, ed. Mary Rawlings|work=Print|publisher=Jeffersonian Republican|location=|publishdate=1874|accessdate=}}</ref>
This site had historically been a mixed-use space. In [[1828]], there was a printing shop, a dry goods and grocery store, a hatter’s shop, and a merchant’s shop, each with private residences above.<ref>{{cite web|title=Early Charlottesville: Recollections of James Alexander 1828-1874|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027788648&view=1up&seq=36&q1=Mckee%20Row|author=James Alexander, ed. Mary Rawlings|work=Print|publisher=Jeffersonian Republican|location=|publishdate=1874|accessdate=}}</ref>

Revision as of 12:12, 31 May 2021

McKee Row c.1900, photograph courtesy of the Holsinger Studio Collection
McKee Row (1912) can be seen on the left through the trees. Photograph courtesy of the Holsinger Studio Collection and UVA Special Collections

McKee Row was a majority Black section of businesses and residences[1] directly west of the Albemarle County Courthouse in downtown Charlottesville. In 1914, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors confiscated the land from its residents and granted it to the city, citing “rowdiness” that they believed could potentially impact white businesses.[2] A school for white children was planned for the space, and the buildings were torn down in 1918.[3] [4] Instead, Paul Goodloe McIntire bought the land. He gave it back to the city in 1919, on the condition that it would be used as a park (Court Square Park) to house and center a south-facing statue of Confederate general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.[5]

This site had historically been a mixed-use space. In 1828, there was a printing shop, a dry goods and grocery store, a hatter’s shop, and a merchant’s shop, each with private residences above.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Web. Marked By These Monuments, Drs. Andrea Douglas and Jalane Schmidt, Website, WTJU 91.1 FM, Charlottesville, 2019, retrieved May 28, 2021.
  2. ↑ Web. Marked By These Monuments, Drs. Andrea Douglas and Jalane Schmidt, Website, WTJU 91.1 FM, Charlottesville, 2019, retrieved May 28, 2021.
  3. ↑ Web. Marked By These Monuments, Drs. Andrea Douglas and Jalane Schmidt, Website, WTJU 91.1 FM, Charlottesville, 2019, retrieved May 28, 2021.
  4. ↑ Web. Tools of Displacement, Abramowitz, Latterner, and Rosenblith, News Article, Slate [1], 23 June, 2017, retrieved May 28, 2021.
  5. ↑ National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service Form 10-900-a, 1996, Section 8 page 3, on deposit Albemarle County Historical Society “Monuments“ file and available online at: https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/104-0083_WestMainStreetHD_2017_NRHP_FINAL.pdf
  6. ↑ Web. Early Charlottesville: Recollections of James Alexander 1828-1874, James Alexander, ed. Mary Rawlings, Print, Jeffersonian Republican, 1874

National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service Form 10-900-a, 1996, Section 8 page 3, on deposit Albemarle County Historical Society “Monuments“ file and available online at: https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/104-0083_WestMainStreetHD_2017_NRHP_FINAL.pdf

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