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*[[Brandon Avenue]] - unknown
*[[Brandon Avenue]] - unknown
*[[Brandywine Court]] - unknown
*[[Brandywine Drive]] and [[Brandywine Court]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brandywine Battle of Brandywine], an important battle during the American Revolutionary War. Part of a cluster of names pertaining to American history in the [[Greenbrier neighborhood]].
*[[Brandywine Drive]] - unknown
*[[Briarcliff Avenue]] - unknown
*[[Briarcliff Avenue]] - unknown
*[[Broad Avenue]] - unknown
*[[Broad Avenue]] - unknown
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*[[Buckingham Road]] - unknown
*[[Buckingham Road]] - unknown
*[[Buckler Drive]] - unknown
*[[Buckler Drive]] - unknown
*[[Bunker Hill Drive]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bunker_Hill Battle of Bunker Hill] , an important battle during the American Revolution
*[[Bunker Hill Drive]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bunker_Hill Battle of Bunker Hill] , an important battle during the American Revolutionary War. Part of a cluster of names pertaining to American history in the [[Greenbrier neighborhood]].
*[[Burgess Lane]] - John Anderson Burgess (1873-1948), moved to Charlottesville in [[1898]]. [[1890]] opened general contractor business at 401-403 E Market Street; employed 20 painters, paper hangers, carpenters (residence listed as ''Woolen Mills Road'', ca. 1914)
*[[Burgess Lane]] - John Anderson Burgess (1873-1948), moved to Charlottesville in [[1898]]. [[1890]] opened general contractor business at 401-403 E Market Street; employed 20 painters, paper hangers, carpenters (residence listed as ''Woolen Mills Road'', ca. 1914)
*[[Burnet Street]] - unknown
*[[Burnet Street]] - unknown
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*[[Commerce Street]] - unknown
*[[Commerce Street]] - unknown
*[[Concord Avenue]] - likely named for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord Battle of Concord] during the American Revolution; parallel to Yorktown Drive
*[[Concord Avenue]] - likely named for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord Battle of Concord] during the American Revolution; parallel to Yorktown Drive
*[[Concord Drive]] - unknown
*[[Concord Drive]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord Battle of Concord], an important battle during the American Revolutionary War. Part of a cluster of names pertaining to American history in the [[Greenbrier neighborhood]].
*[[Copeley Road]] - unknown
*[[Copeley Road]] - unknown
*[[Cottage Lane]] - one of several streets named for the property surrounding [[Rugby Hall]], formerly owned by Confederate general [[Thomas L. Rosser]]. Cottage Lane runs between Rugby Hall (908 Cottage Lane) and two cottages (907 and 909 Cottage Lane) that were owned by Rosser in the late 19th century. For a time the cottages were rented out by the Rossers to help generate income.<ref>Sheridan R. Barringer, ''Custer's Gray Rival'', (Burlington, NC, 2019), 249.</ref>
*[[Cottage Lane]] - one of several streets named for the property surrounding [[Rugby Hall]], formerly owned by Confederate general [[Thomas L. Rosser]]. Cottage Lane runs between Rugby Hall (908 Cottage Lane) and two cottages (907 and 909 Cottage Lane) that were owned by Rosser in the late 19th century. For a time the cottages were rented out by the Rossers to help generate income.<ref>Sheridan R. Barringer, ''Custer's Gray Rival'', (Burlington, NC, 2019), 249.</ref>
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*[[Emmet Street]] / Emmet Street South - ''likely'' John Emmet, the first professor of natural history at the University, appointed by [[Thomas Jefferson]].  
*[[Emmet Street]] / Emmet Street South - ''likely'' John Emmet, the first professor of natural history at the University, appointed by [[Thomas Jefferson]].  
*[[Eric Place]] - unknown
*[[Eric Place]] - unknown
*[[Essex Road]] - likely [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex Essex, England]
*[[Essex Road]] - possibly Essex, New Jersey, location of numerous events during the American Revolutionary War, as it is in a cluster of names pertaining to American history in the [[Greenbrier neighborhood]].
*[[Estes Street]] - unknown
*[[Estes Street]] - unknown
*[[Eton Road]] - ''likey'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton,_Berkshire Eton, England]
*[[Eton Road]] - ''likey'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton,_Berkshire Eton, England]
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*[[Jamestown Drive]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia Jamestown, Virginia]
*[[Jamestown Drive]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia Jamestown, Virginia]. Part of a cluster of names pertaining to American history in the [[Greenbrier neighborhood]].
*[[Jeanette Lancaster Way]] - Jeanette Lancaster, former Dean of Nursing at UVA
*[[Jeanette Lancaster Way]] - Jeanette Lancaster, former Dean of Nursing at UVA
*[[E Jefferson Street|Jefferson Street]] - [[Thomas Jefferson]]
*[[E Jefferson Street|Jefferson Street]] - [[Thomas Jefferson]]
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*[[Kerry Lane]] - unknown
*[[Kerry Lane]] - unknown
*[[Keystone Place]] - unknown
*[[Keystone Place]] - unknown
*[[King Mountain Road]] - unknown
*[[King Mountain Road]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kings_Mountain Battle of Kings Mountain], an important battle during the American Revolutionary War. Part of a cluster of names pertaining to American history in the [[Greenbrier neighborhood]].
*[[King Street]] - unknown
*[[King Street]] - unknown
*[[Knoll Street]] - unknown
*[[Knoll Street]] - unknown
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*[[Yorktown Drive]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorktown,_Virginia Yorktown, Virginia] site of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown_(1862) Siege of Yorktown (1862)], the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War
*[[Yorktown Drive]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorktown,_Virginia Yorktown, Virginia] site of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown_(1862) Siege of Yorktown (1862)], the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. Part of a cluster of names pertaining to American history in the Greenbrier neighborhood.


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Revision as of 18:40, 21 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.[13]

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)[14]
  • 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.[15]

References

  1. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000196692&view=1up&seq=33
  2. 2.0 2.1 Massie, Frank A., and Virginia School Company. A New and Historical Map of Albemarle County, Virginia. Owned and published by the Virginia School Company, 1907. https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/maps/items/u2716440
  3. Web. The Cabell Family, University of Virginia Special Collections Library, 2018
  4. Sheridan R. Barringer, Custer's Gray Rival, (Burlington, NC, 2019), 249.
  5. Web. Kenneth R. Crispell, 79, Dean And Health Expert on Presidents, New York Times, Aug. 26, 1996, retrieved 2020-10-14.
  6. https://uvamagazine.org/articles/the_golden_age_of_the_rooming_house_matrons
  7. Woods, E. (1901). Albemarle County in Virginia: giving some account of what it was by nature, of what it was made by man, and of some of the men who made it. Charlottesville, Va.: The Michie Company, printers. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Albemarle_County_in_Virginia/oX3hxtr5L24C?hl=en
  8. http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/students/projects/homesteads/genealogy/meriwethers.html
  9. http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?query=Roslyn&docId=uva-sc%2Fviu03696.xml&chunk.id=
  10. https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/104-0136/
  11. http://www.charlottesville.org/community/neighborhood-connection/10th-and-page
  12. http://www.c-ville.com/Rosey_homecoming/
  13. Web. 1950 Census Enumeration District Maps - Virginia (VA) - Charlottesville City - Charlottesville - ED 104-1 to 31, US Census Bureau
  14. https://v3.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2681176/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2681197/3799.5/4438.5/4/1/0
  15. https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/104-0048_Wyndhurst_2018_NR_Summary_Proposed_Relocation.pdf

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