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This article is a date listing important events for the year 1927.

Events

• City population grew from 10,688 in 1920 to 15,245 by 1930.

• September 5 – Daily Progress: The schools of the city opened with a very full enrollment. The figures given from the official data handed in to the superintendent’s office at the close of business this day were Total white and colored 3,111. One notable thing about work at Midway is the desire among the girls for domestic science classes. (e.g. 75% white; 25% colored)
• August 16 – Radiating more than a billion and a third candlepower, the Thomas Jefferson searchlight, said to lie the most powerful beacon in the world, was turned on this night at 8 o’clock, when it bathed in a flood of brightness Monticello, the mountaintop home of the “author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom and father of the University of Virginia.’’

Deaths

• January 5 – Homer Ragland dies in Charlottesville and is buried at 'Kelley's Lower End.' A janitor at the local courthouse, Ragland had his portrait photograph prominently included within the Holsinger Studio Collection.
• July 25 – John West, born a slave in Charlottesville and freed at the end of the civil war, he became a prominent businessman and civic leader.