Template:On this day/May 9

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.

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.
• 1881 – John West was elected to the Charlottesville Town Council from the Second Ward. Born enslaved in Charlottesville and freed at the end of the Civil War, he became a prominent businessman and civic leader.
• 1935 – The State Corporation Commission ordered the Charlottesville and Albemarle Railway Co. to operate buses over the same routes on which it operated streetcars.
• 1972 – Downtown Charlottesville Inc. presented the Downtown Mall proposal to skeptical Charlottesville business leaders.