HISTORICAL GUIDE
TO OLD CHARLOTTESVILLE
With Mention of Its Statues
and of Albemarle’s Shrines
Compiled by
Mary Rawlings
Honorary President of
The Albemarle County Historical Society
Copyright 1958
Mary Rawlings and Velora C. Thomson
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
CONTENTS
- PAGE
- ALBEMARLE COUNTY COURT HOUSE 2
- TARLETON AND JACK JOUETT. 3
- PRESENT COURT HOUSE BUILDING 4
- JEFFERSON’S WILL 5
- COURT HOUSE VOTING 5
- JOHN S. MOSBY. 6
- BUILDINGS ON THE SQUARE 7
- TOWN HALL 7
- SWAN TAVERN 7
- SLAVE TRADE 8
- VILLAGE LIBRARY 9
- SWISS WATCH-MAKER 9
- EAGLE TAVERN 9
- “SATAN’S THUMB” 10
- CIVIL WAR PERIOD 11
- SHERIDAN’S RAID 11
- ESCAPE FROM GALLOWS 12
- MILITARY OCCUPATION 13
- ALBEMARLE’S SHRINES 16
- MONTICELLO 16
- ASH LAWN 16
- BUILDING OF ASH LAWN 18
- SALE OF ASH LAWN 18
- BOXWOOD GARDEN AND STATUE 19
- THE MICHIE TAVERN 20
- CHARLOTTESVILLE’S STATUES 22
- LEWIS AND CLARK STATUE 22
- LOCATION OF STATUE 22
- MERIWETHER LEWIS 22
- WILLIAM CLARK 23
- LOUISIANA PURCHASE. 23
- STONEWALL JACKSON STATUE 24
- GEORGE ROGERS CLARK STATUE 26
- LEE STATUE 27
- MINIATURE MODEL OF LEE 29
- ENVOI 30
COURT SQUARE
1828
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
Floyd Johnson Courtesy of Alb. Co. Hist. Soc.
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Albemarle County Courthouse. Built 1803. J. Rawlings Thomson
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