Monticello Wine Company
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Founded in 1873, the Monticello Wine Company was considered the largest winery in the South. [1] The company shut down with the onset of Prohibition. Virginia went dry at the stroke of midnight on November 1, 1916. The whole country followed on January 16, 1920.[2]
Capt. Adolph Russow (April 9, 1851 – October 8, 1923) had been in charge of the business from 1873 to 1916, and its general manager and superintendent. Russow lived in a company house at what is now 212 Wine Street. The Monticello Wine Company gave him the house after selling off its stock and closing its doors in 1916, a “victim” of state-adopted prohibition.
- The Monticello Wine Company House is one of Charlottesville's individually protected properties.[3].
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References
- ↑ Web. Historical Highway Markers: Monticello Wine Company, Virginia Department of Historic Resources
- ↑ Web. Virginia's Prohibition history, Lorraine Eaton, The Virginian-Pilot, 150 W. Brambleton Ave., Norfolk, VA, November 30, 2008, retrieved March 20, 2019.
- ↑ "Charlottesville : Architectural Design Control District and Individually Protected Property Information." Charlottesville : Home. Web. 16 Aug. 2010. <http://www.charlottesville.org/Index.aspx?page=812>.