Template:On this day/May 9

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May 9:

  • 1825 – The University’s first proctor, Arthur S. Brockenbrough, paid John M. Perry $6,600.93 for 153 acres of land between the Rotunda and Observatory Hill. In 1828, part of the land became the Cemetery at the University of Virginia.
  • 1881John West was elected to the Charlottesville Town Council from the Second Ward. Born a slave in Charlottesville and freed at the end of the civil war, he was a prominent businessman and civic leader.
  • 1935 – State Corporation Commission orders the Charlottesville and Albemarle Railway Co. to operate buses over the same route on which it operates street cars.
  • 1972 – Downtown Charlottesville Inc. presents the mall proposal to skeptical Charlottesville business leaders.