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*[[January 13]] – A new high school building in Red Hill in Albemarle County is dedicated. <ref>{{cite-progress-lindsay|title=Attractive Exercises - In Connection with Dedication of High School at Red Hill|url=https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128435|author=|pageno=1|printdate=January 14, 1907|publishdate=January 14, 1907|accessdate=January 14, 2023}}</ref> | *[[January 13]] – A new high school building in Red Hill in Albemarle County is dedicated. <ref>{{cite-progress-lindsay|title=Attractive Exercises - In Connection with Dedication of High School at Red Hill|url=https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128435|author=|pageno=1|printdate=January 14, 1907|publishdate=January 14, 1907|accessdate=January 14, 2023}}</ref> | ||
*[[June 5]] – [[Alcohol]]: Thirteen years before national prohibition began, Charlottesville went "dry" when city residents cast their vote and passed a local option law. In Virginia, thirteen towns have | *[[January 24]] – Charlottesville City Council meet and award a contract to Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry of Lynchburg for pipes for a waterline and a contract to Boggs and Halstead for construction of a new reservoir dam at Mayo's Rock. Council also banned the selling of livestock on Market Street and Seventh Street. <ref>{{cite-progress-lindsay|title=Dam and Pipeline Bids are Awarded|url=https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/uva-lib:2128525|author=|pageno=1|printdate=January 25, 1907|publishdate=January 25, 1907|accessdate=January 24, 2023}}</ref> | ||
*[[June 5]] – [[Alcohol]]: Thirteen years before national prohibition began, Charlottesville went "dry" when city residents cast their vote and passed a local option law. In Virginia, thirteen towns have voted on local option this year, eleven went "dry". Virginia is among the southern states still considering the alcohol issue.<ref>https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnqf43 A treatise on the Virginia prohibition act, | |||
by T. B. Benson (1916)</ref> | by T. B. Benson (1916)</ref> | ||
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Events
- January 13 – A new high school building in Red Hill in Albemarle County is dedicated. [1]
- January 24 – Charlottesville City Council meet and award a contract to Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry of Lynchburg for pipes for a waterline and a contract to Boggs and Halstead for construction of a new reservoir dam at Mayo's Rock. Council also banned the selling of livestock on Market Street and Seventh Street. [2]
- June 5 – Alcohol: Thirteen years before national prohibition began, Charlottesville went "dry" when city residents cast their vote and passed a local option law. In Virginia, thirteen towns have voted on local option this year, eleven went "dry". Virginia is among the southern states still considering the alcohol issue.[3]
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- ↑ Web. Attractive Exercises - In Connection with Dedication of High School at Red Hill, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, January 14, 1907, retrieved January 14, 2023. Print. January 14, 1907 page 1.
- ↑ Web. Dam and Pipeline Bids are Awarded, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, January 25, 1907, retrieved January 24, 2023. Print. January 25, 1907 page 1.
- ↑ https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnqf43 A treatise on the Virginia prohibition act, by T. B. Benson (1916)