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*[[Glenn Court]] - unknown
*[[Glenn Court]] - unknown
*[[Goodman Street]] - the Goodman family, most recently David R. Goodman (1830-1900?), who owned the land that became Graves Addition which contains the street from [[1892]] until his death ''or possibly'' the Goodman estate that roughly covered the area from [[Monticello Road]] northwest to the railroad tracks and was bordered by the present day [[Douglas Avenue]] and [[Graves Street]]. This estate had a French name, the “Hodesville Estate,” possibly because Mr. Goodman’s wife was of French origin.
*[[Goodman Street]] - the Goodman family, most recently David R. Goodman (1830-1900?), who owned the land that became Graves Addition which contains the street from [[1892]] until his death ''or possibly'' the Goodman estate that roughly covered the area from [[Monticello Road]] northwest to the railroad tracks and was bordered by the present day [[Douglas Avenue]] and [[Graves Street]]. This estate had a French name, the “Hodesville Estate,” possibly because Mr. Goodman’s wife was of French origin.
*[[Gordon Avenue]] - The Gordon family or a specific Gordon; General William F. Gordon (1787–1858), of Albemarle, attorney and public official, he represented Albemarle County in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1818–21 and 1822–29, and there strongly supported [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s plan for a state university and the [[1826 lottery]] for his financial aid; ''or possibly'' Armistead Churchill Gordon, Sr. (1855 -1931) an attorney and a writer, graduated from the [[University of Virginia]] and William and Mary Law School, a member of the [[Board of Visitors]] at the [[University of Virginia]] for sixteen years, was rector of the [[University of Virginia]] ([[1897]]-[[1898]], [[1906]]-[[1918]]) His tenure on the University of Virginia board included the aftermath of the burning of [[The Rotunda]] on [[October 27]], [[1895]]; ''or possibly'' Confederate officer, United States Senator from Georgia and [[Lost Cause]] advocate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_Gordon John Brown Gordon] as it is parallel to Grady Avenue, possibly named for white supremacist journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_W._Grady Henry W. Grady] (1832-1904). As a teenager, Henry Grady experienced fierce Civil War fighting in his home state of Georgia and his father William was killed by a Union soldier; ''also possibly'' [https://history.house.virginia.gov/clerks/11 William Fitzhugh Gordon Jr.] (1823-1904), a Confederate politician and soldier and for whom [[Enderly]] was constructed or possibly named for Confederates John B. Gordon or William F. Gordon, Jr.
*[[Gordon Avenue]] - The Gordon family or a specific Gordon; General William F. Gordon (1787–1858), of Albemarle, attorney and public official, he represented Albemarle County in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1818–21 and 1822–29, and there strongly supported [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s plan for a state university and the [[1826 lottery]] for his financial aid; ''or possibly'' Armistead Churchill Gordon, Sr. (1855 -1931) an attorney and a writer, graduated from the [[University of Virginia]] and William and Mary Law School, a member of the [[Board of Visitors]] at the [[University of Virginia]] for sixteen years, was rector of the [[University of Virginia]] ([[1897]]-[[1898]], [[1906]]-[[1918]]) His tenure on the University of Virginia board included the aftermath of the burning of [[The Rotunda]] on [[October 27]], [[1895]]; ''or possibly'' Confederate officer, United States Senator from Georgia and [[Lost Cause]] advocate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_Gordon John Brown Gordon] as it is parallel to Grady Avenue, possibly named for white supremacist journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_W._Grady Henry W. Grady] (1832-1904). As a teenager, Henry Grady experienced fierce Civil War fighting in his home state of Georgia and his father William was killed by a Union soldier; ''also possibly'' [https://history.house.virginia.gov/clerks/11 William Fitzhugh Gordon Jr.] (1823-1904), a Confederate politician and soldier and for whom [[Enderly]] was constructed  
*[[Grace Street]] - unknown  
*[[Grace Street]] - unknown  
*[[Grady Avenue]] - possibly named for white supremacist journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_W._Grady Henry W. Grady], as it is parallel to Gordon Avenue.  
*[[Grady Avenue]] - possibly named for white supremacist journalist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_W._Grady Henry W. Grady], as it is parallel to Gordon Avenue.  

Revision as of 09:19, 18 October 2020

The following is a list of streets in City of Charlottesville and where there names are derived from.

Guide to streets

The system of numbering the streets is somewhat similar to the Washington plan. Each block represents 100 numbers, whether heading east, west, north or south. The city is divided into four sections.[1]

  • Fifth – South of 500 W Main Street
  • First – North of East Main and East of North First, or Northeast
  • Second – South of East Main and east of South First, or Southeast
  • Third – North of West Main and west of North First, or Northwest
  • Fourth – South from 402 West Main
  • Sixth-and-a-Half – South from 606 Dice
  • Seventh-and-a-Half – South from 620 Dice
  • Main – The dividing line between north and south streets, runs east from First to C & O Lower Depot, and west from First to University.
  • First – The dividing line between east and west streets, runs north and south from Main to city limits.

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In 1919, Stewart Fuller lived on Booker Street with his parents, Stewart & Alberta Douglas Fuller.

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The March 1909 edition of The Druid, the magazine published by the Ancient Order of Druids.

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View of Pen Park Plantation House, ca. 1897. In 1777, Dr. George Gilmer purchased the land and his family owned it until 1800. Originally the estate consisted of four thousand acres; by 1897 all had been sold off save the six hundred acres immediately about the house.
The northern Piedmont is a triangle between Washington, DC, Richmond, and Charlottesville.

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Colonel Wertenbaker was a Civil War veteran, having served in the 19th Virginia Regiment

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Street name changes

  • Rosser Ln was originally named Augusta Rd. Constructed sometime after 1938, it appeared as August Rd on the 1950 Census Enumeration Map of Charlottesville.[10]

Extinct streets

  • Alphanso Street – ran north from Williams Street to Preston W first east of 10th NW
  • Apple Street – West of 601 Ridge Street
  • Cabell Street – parallel to Lee Street, subsumed by Pinn Hall at UVA Medical Center
  • Belmont Street – Rose Hill
  • Loudoun Road (ca. 1964) – (undeveloped street between Lewis Mountain and Thomson roads)[11]
  • Park Place Avenue – perpendicular to Lee Street, subsumed by Pinn Hall at UVA Medical Center
  • Randall Street – parallel to Lee Street, subsumed by Pinn Hall at UVA Medical Center
  • Williams Street
  • Wyndhurst Circle and Wyndhurst Way, ca. 1920; precursors to the present-day Preston Place.[12]

References

  1. ↑ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000196692&view=1up&seq=33
  2. ↑ Web. The Cabell Family, University of Virginia Special Collections Library, 2018
  3. ↑ Sheridan R. Barringer, Custer's Gray Rival, (Burlington, NC, 2019), 249.
  4. ↑ Web. Kenneth R. Crispell, 79, Dean And Health Expert on Presidents, New York Times, Aug. 26, 1996, retrieved 2020-10-14.
  5. ↑ https://uvamagazine.org/articles/the_golden_age_of_the_rooming_house_matrons
  6. ↑ http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?query=Roslyn&docId=uva-sc%2Fviu03696.xml&chunk.id=
  7. ↑ https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/104-0136/
  8. ↑ http://www.charlottesville.org/community/neighborhood-connection/10th-and-page
  9. ↑ http://www.c-ville.com/Rosey_homecoming/
  10. ↑ Web. 1950 Census Enumeration District Maps - Virginia (VA) - Charlottesville City - Charlottesville - ED 104-1 to 31, US Census Bureau
  11. ↑ https://v3.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2681176/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2681197/3799.5/4438.5/4/1/0
  12. ↑ https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/104-0048_Wyndhurst_2018_NR_Summary_Proposed_Relocation.pdf

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