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Events

City of Charlottesville's Population was 5,591

Timberlakes Drugs opened.

• February 18 - At a regular monthly meeting, the City Council adopted a Resolution that the Chief of Police, be directed to have the Privies on the Public School property near C. D. Carters residence removed to some other place on the same property, after consultation with the School Board.
• June 1 - The official population count of the returns made under the Eleventh Census, taken as of June 1, 1890. The total population of the City of Charlottesville was 5,591; while the population in 1880 was 2,676, an increase during the decade of 2,915 - or 108.93% The total population of the state as returned in 1890 was 1,655,980, while the population in 1880 was 1,512,565, an increase during the decade of 143,415 - or 9.48 per cent.

Births

• April 3 – Lena Taylor Barbour is born in Virginia. A maid, dressmaker, and seamstress, Barbour had her portrait photograph included within the “Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style and Racial Uplift” exhibit of Rufus W. Holsinger's photographs that was on display at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library from 2022 to 2023.
• September 10 – Tillie Washington is born to a barrel cooper in Albemarle County. Working variously as a cleaner and farmer throughout his life, Washington had his portrait photograph prominently included within the Holsinger Studio Collection.
• September 21 – Daniel Watson is born to Obis Watson and Betty Brown in Albemarle County. A stone quarryman in his youth and a decorated World War I veteran, Watson had his portrait photograph prominently included within the Holsinger Studio Collection.