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*[[Chelsea Drive]] - unknown
*[[Chelsea Drive]] - unknown
*[[Cherry Avenue]] - presumably the tree
*[[Cherry Avenue]] - presumably the tree
*[[Cherry Street]] - presumably the tree
*[[Cherry Street]] - botanical name, in a cluster of tree-themed streets off of Carlton Ave
*[[Chesapeake Street]] - presumably the bay
*[[Chesapeake Street]] - presumably the bay
*[[Chestnut Street]] - presumably the American Chestnut tree
*[[Chestnut Street]] - botanical name, in a cluster of tree-themed streets off of Carlton Ave
*[[Chisholm Place]] - unknown
*[[Chisholm Place]] - unknown
*[[Christa Court]] - unknown
*[[Christa Court]] - unknown
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*[[Denice Lane]] - unknown
*[[Denice Lane]] - unknown
*[[Dice Street]] – Dice family or specifically Dr. Dice whose house was located in 1877 at the 300 of Dice block south of Garrett Street  
*[[Dice Street]] – Dice family or specifically Dr. Dice whose house was located in 1877 at the 300 of Dice block south of Garrett Street  
*[[Douglas Avenue]] - unknown (a Reaves family owned a lot around the turn of the twentieth century that was called “The Grove” and included the area east of [[Douglas Avenue]] to “Coal Bin Hill”, or near the present day [[Chestnut Street]] area.)
*[[Douglas Avenue]] - unknown. Possibly the Douglas Fir tree as the parallel streets to the east are tree names, or a person or family with the surname Douglas. A Reaves family owned a lot around the turn of the twentieth century that was called “The Grove” and included the area east of [[Douglas Avenue]] to “Coal Bin Hill”, or near the present day [[Chestnut Street]] area.
*[[Druid Avenue]] - referring to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid Druids] from Celtic culture; parallel to Stonehenge Avenue and Rockland Avenue, all of which lead to the now-abandoned quarry where Quarry Park is now; parallel with [[Stonehenge Avenue]], it is part of a group of themed streets in the [[Belmont-Carlton]] neighborhood carrying names associated with the Ancient Order of Druids. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Antrobus,_4th_Baronet Sir Edmund Antrobus], 4th Baronet, owner of Stonehenge (1848-1915). In [[1905]], he was initiated into the Ancient Order of Druids and welcomed the first massive ceremony of this Order in Stonehenge.  
*[[Druid Avenue]] - referring to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid Druids] from Celtic culture; parallel to Stonehenge Avenue and Rockland Avenue, all of which lead to the now-abandoned quarry where Quarry Park is now; parallel with [[Stonehenge Avenue]], it is part of a group of themed streets in the [[Belmont-Carlton]] neighborhood carrying names associated with the Ancient Order of Druids. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Antrobus,_4th_Baronet Sir Edmund Antrobus], 4th Baronet, owner of Stonehenge (1848-1915). In [[1905]], he was initiated into the Ancient Order of Druids and welcomed the first massive ceremony of this Order in Stonehenge.  


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*[[Galloway Drive]] - unknown
*[[Galloway Drive]] - unknown
*[[Garden Drive]] - unknown
*[[Garden Drive]] - unknown
*[[Garden Street]] - unknown
*[[Garden Street]] - botanical name, in a cluster of tree-themed streets off of Carlton Ave
*[[Garrett Street]] – [[Alexander Garrett]], who owned the "[[Oak Hill]]" plantation around the area of the street. Formerly known as Garrett's Avenue and City Line in 1877.   
*[[Garrett Street]] – [[Alexander Garrett]], who owned the "[[Oak Hill]]" plantation around the area of the street. Formerly known as Garrett's Avenue and City Line in 1877.   
*[[Gentry Lane]] - unknown
*[[Gentry Lane]] - unknown
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*[[Holly Drive]] - botanical name
*[[Holly Drive]] - botanical name
*[[Holly Road]] - botanical name
*[[Holly Road]] - botanical name
*[[Holly Street]] - botanical name
*[[Holly Street]] - botanical name, in a cluster of tree-themed streets off of Carlton Ave (Dettor Blvd on Google Maps?)
*[[Holmes Avenue]] - likely [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frederick_Holmes George Frederick Holmes], professor at UVA and slavery advocate
*[[Holmes Avenue]] - likely [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frederick_Holmes George Frederick Holmes], professor at UVA and slavery advocate
*[[Howard Drive]] - unknown
*[[Howard Drive]] - unknown
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*[[Mowbray Place]] - unknown
*[[Mowbray Place]] - unknown
*[[Mulberry Avenue]] - botanical name
*[[Mulberry Avenue]] - botanical name
*[[Myrtle Street]] - botanical name
*[[Myrtle Street]] - botanical name, in a cluster of tree-themed streets off of Carlton Ave


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*[[Sprigg Lane]] -  ''possibly'' derived from the gardening term "sprigging" which is the planting of sprigs, plant sections cut from rhizomes or stolons that includes crowns and roots. On this short street, the main house of [[Morea]] was built in [[1830]] and belonged to John Emmet, first professor of natural history at the University of Virginia, appointed by [[Thomas Jefferson]].
*[[Sprigg Lane]] -  ''possibly'' derived from the gardening term "sprigging" which is the planting of sprigs, plant sections cut from rhizomes or stolons that includes crowns and roots. On this short street, the main house of [[Morea]] was built in [[1830]] and belonged to John Emmet, first professor of natural history at the University of Virginia, appointed by [[Thomas Jefferson]].
*[[Spring Street]] - unknown
*[[Spring Street]] - unknown
*[[Spruce Street]] - presumably the tree
*[[Spruce Street]] - botanical name, in a cluster of tree-themed streets off of Carlton Ave
*[[St Annes Drive]] - unknown
*[[St Annes Drive]] - unknown
*[[St Annes Road]] - unknown
*[[St Annes Road]] - unknown
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*[[Walker Square]] - Walker family, notably [[Thomas Walker|Dr. Thomas Walker]] and Francis Walker of [[Castle Hill]]
*[[Walker Square]] - Walker family, notably [[Thomas Walker|Dr. Thomas Walker]] and Francis Walker of [[Castle Hill]]
*[[Walker Street]] - Walker family, notably [[Thomas Walker|Dr. Thomas Walker]] and Francis Walker of [[Castle Hill]]
*[[Walker Street]] - Walker family, notably [[Thomas Walker|Dr. Thomas Walker]] and Francis Walker of [[Castle Hill]]
*[[Walnut Street]] - presumably the tree
*[[Walnut Street]] - botanical name, in a cluster of tree-themed streets off of Carlton Ave
*[[Ward Avenue]] - unknown
*[[Ward Avenue]] - unknown
*[[Ware Street]] - unknown
*[[Ware Street]] - unknown

Revision as of 22:20, 23 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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Gitchells Studio.JPG

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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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