Template:On this day/February 28

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

February 28:

• 1769 – Nimrod Bramham was born.
• 1864 – Union Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer and approximately 1,500 Union soldiers advanced toward Charlottesville. The movement was part of a diversionary effort during the Civil War, intended to draw attention away from a separate Union attempt to liberate prisoners of war held in Richmond.
• 1933 – After a brief illness, Elbridge G. Haden, well know realtor and mayor of the city for four terms, died at his home, "The Tower House" on Park Street.
• 1976 – In the town of Scottsville, fire destroyed the Dansey's lumber business, a 140-year-old Methodist Church and a century-old feed mill and general store, plus several nearby outbuildings, and heavily damaged two houses.
• 1977 – On main street in Scottsville, while the town fire department was away battling a blaze in an abandoned house at Schuyler, 16 miles away, a fire broke out at the old Flour Mills, a mammoth four story building.