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*[[Alderman Road]] - [[Edwin A. Alderman]], first President of the [[University of Virginia]] | *[[Alderman Road]] - [[Edwin A. Alderman]], first President of the [[University of Virginia]] | ||
*[[Allen Drive]] - unknown | *[[Allen Drive]] - unknown | ||
*[[Allied Lane]] - | *[[Allied Lane]] - possibly [[Allied Concrete]] | ||
*[[Allied Street]] - | *[[Allied Street]] - possibly [[Allied Concrete]] | ||
*[[Almere Avenue]] - unknown | *[[Almere Avenue]] - unknown | ||
*[[Altamont Circle]] - common place name, meaning "high mountain" | *[[Altamont Circle]] - common place name, meaning "high mountain" | ||
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*[[Augusta Street]] - unknown | *[[Augusta Street]] - unknown | ||
*[[Avon Street]] - the River Avon in England, in reference to the birthplace of William Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon, by the developer of Belmont, Bartlett Bolling | *[[Avon Street]] - the River Avon in England, in reference to the birthplace of William Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon, by the developer of Belmont, Bartlett Bolling | ||
*[[Azalea Drive]] - | *[[Azalea Drive]] - presumably the shrub | ||
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*[[Cresap Road]] - unknown | *[[Cresap Road]] - unknown | ||
*[[Crestmont Avenue]] - unknown | *[[Crestmont Avenue]] - unknown | ||
*[[Crispell Drive]] - | *[[Crispell Drive]] - presumably Kenneth R. Crispell, medical school dean 1962-1971<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/26/us/kenneth-r-crispell-79-dean-and-health-expert-on-presidents.html|title=Kenneth R. Crispell, 79, Dean And Health Expert on Presidents|last=|first=|publishdate=Aug. 26, 1996|publisher=New York Times|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=2020-10-14}}</ref> | ||
*[[Cutler Lane]] - unknown | *[[Cutler Lane]] - unknown | ||
*[[Cynthianna Avenue]] - unknown | *[[Cynthianna Avenue]] - unknown |
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List of streets and their namesakes.
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.
Street names in alphabetical order.
(A)
- Ackley Lane - unknown
- Agnese Street - unknown
- Ainsley Alley - unknown
- Albemarle Street - as with Albemarle County, named for Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
- Alderman Road - Edwin A. Alderman, first President of the University of Virginia
- Allen Drive - unknown
- Allied Lane - possibly Allied Concrete
- Allied Street - possibly Allied Concrete
- Almere Avenue - unknown
- Altamont Circle - common place name, meaning "high mountain"
- Altamont Street - common place name, meaning "high mountain"
- Altavista Avenue - common place name, meaning "high viewpoint"
- Amherst Commons - unknown
- Amherst Street - unknown
- Amstel Avenue - unknown
- Anderson Street - unknown
- Angus Road - unknown
- Antoinette Avenue - unknown
- Antoinette Court - unknown
- Apple Tree Road - presumably the tree
- Arbor Circle - unknown
- Arlington Boulevard - unknown
- Ashby Place - unknown
- Augusta Street - unknown
- Avon Street - the River Avon in England, in reference to the birthplace of William Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon, by the developer of Belmont, Bartlett Bolling
- Azalea Drive - presumably the shrub
(B)
- Bailey Road - unknown
- Bainbridge Street - unknown
- Baker Street - unknown
- Banbury Street - unknown
- Barbour Drive - unknown
- Barksdale Street - The Barksdale family, prominent Albemarle and City of Charlottesville family dating back to the early 1700’s. Members of the family included a soldier in the Revolutionary war. W. R. Barksdale (1828 - 1912) was in JEB Stuart’s command, wounded at the battle of Yellow Tavern in the same engagement in which Stuart was killed. His sons, James Barksdale and John Barksdale, were partners with John Fry to invest in small lots in the neighborhood.
- Barracks Road – The Albemarle Barracks, a prisoner-of-war camp for British prisoners during the American Revolutionary War.
- Baylor Lane - unknown
- Baylor Place - unknown
- Beechwood Drive - presumably the tree
- Belleview Avenue - unknown
- Belleview Street - unknown
- Belmont Avenue - from the 551-acre estate sold in 1847 at auction to Slaughter Ficklin who renamed it Belmont from the original Belle-mont. (From an English surname of Norman origin, a variant of the surname BEAUMONT, which was derived from place names meaning "lovely hill" in Old French (from beu, bel "fair, lovely" and mont "hill")).
- Belmont Cottage Lane - named for the Belmont-Carlton neighborhood, itself named for the plantation big house on the Belle Mont Estate, Belmont House (or Belmont Mansion), much of which is part of the former Belle Mont Estate, though the property this street is was not part of the estate. It is a common place name meaning "beautiful mountain."
- Belmont Park - named for adjacent Belmont Park, which itself named for the plantation big house on the Belle Mont Estate, Belmont House (or Belmont Mansion). It is a common place name meaning "beautiful mountain."
- Bennett Street - unknown
- Berring Street - unknown
- Bing Lane - the cherry varietal; intersecting with Rainier Road (another cherry varietal)
- Bingler Street - unknown
- Birdwood Court - presumed Birdwood Estate
- Birdwood Road - presumed Birdwood Estate
- Bland Circle - unknown
- Blenheim Avenue - Blenheim Palace in England, of many English place names used by the developer of Belmont, Bartlett Bolling
- Blincoe Lane - unknown
- Blue Ridge Road - The Blue Ridge Mountains
- Bolling Avenue – Bartlett Bolling, a member of the Bolling family, Confederate soldier, and neo-Confederate activist. Related by marriage to the second son of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (May 31, 1837 – October 15, 1891), also known as W.H.F. Lee. On November 28, 1867, W.H.F. Lee married Mary Tabb Bolling.
- Bollingwood Road - unknown
- Booker Street - possibly Booker T. Washington or Rev. George E. Booker, D.D., originally Brook Street (ca. 1916)
- Brandon Avenue - unknown
- Brandywine Court - unknown
- Brandywine Drive - unknown
- Briarcliff Avenue - unknown
- Broad Avenue - unknown
- Brook Road - unknown
- Brookwood Drive - unknown
- Brookwood Lane - unknown
- Brown Street - unknown
- Bruce Avenue - unknown
- Brunswick Road - unknown
- Buckingham Road - unknown
- Buckler Drive - unknown
- Bunker Hill Drive - unknown
- 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 Wollen Mills Road, ca. 1914)
- Burnet Street - unknown
- Burnet Way - unknown
- Burnley Avenue - Burnley family, notably Nathaniel Burnley (owner of a plantation that included Hydraulic Mills), Drury Wood Burnley, and Carrie Burnley (first female principal in Charlottesville City Schools and one of the namesakes of Burnley-Moran Elementary School)
(C)
- Cabell Avenue - The Cabell Family has lived in Charlottesville since arriving in Virginia in 1726. Members of the family served in the American Revolution and help found the University of Virginia[2]
- Calhoun Street - possibly John C. Calhoun
- Cambridge Circle - unknown
- Camellia Drive - unknown
- Cameron Lane - unknown
- Cargil Lane - unknown
- Carl Smith Street - Carl W. Smith, a major donor to the University of Virginia
- Carlton Avenue - unknown
- Carlton Road - unknown
- Caroline Avenue - unknown
- Carrollton Terrace - unknown
- Carter Lane - unknown
- Castalia Street - unknown
- Cedar Hill Road - presumably the tree
- Cedars Court - presumably the tree
- Center Avenue - unknown
- Chancellor Street - unknown
- Charlton Avenue - Originally (ca. 1916) named "Carlton" until the city change the spelling by adding an "h".
- Chelsea Drive - unknown
- Cherry Avenue - presumably the tree
- Cherry Street - presumably the tree
- Chesapeake Street - presumably the bay
- Chestnut Street - presumably the American Chestnut tree
- Chisholm Place - unknown
- Christa Court - unknown
- Church Street - unknown
- City Walk Way - adjacent City Walk Apartments
- Clarke Court - unknown
- Cleveland Avenue - unknown
- Coleman Court - unknown
- Coleman Street - unknown
- Commerce Street - unknown
- Concord Avenue - unknown
- Concord Drive - 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.[3]
- Cottonwood Road - presumably the tree
- Court Square - unknown
- Cream Street - unknown
- Cresap Road - unknown
- Crestmont Avenue - unknown
- Crispell Drive - presumably Kenneth R. Crispell, medical school dean 1962-1971[4]
- Cutler Lane - unknown
- Cynthianna Avenue - unknown
(D)
- Dairy Road - unknown
- Dale Avenue - Originally (1895-1916) named Belmont Avenue
- Dalton Lane - unknown
- Danbury Court - unknown
- Darien Terrace - unknown
- David Terrace - unknown
- Davis Avenue - Davis family or a specific Davis; R. M. Davis subdivision developer early 1970’s.
- Del Mar Drive - unknown
- Delevan Street - unknown
- Dell Lane - unknown
- Dellmead Lane - unknown
- Denice Lane - unknown
- Dice Street – Dice family or a specifically Dr. Dice who’s house was located in 1877 at the 300 of Dice block south of Garrett.
- Douglas Avenue - unknown
- Druid Avenue - unknown
- Dublin Road - unknown
- Duke Street - unknown
- Dunova Court - unknown
(E)
- E High Street - common name for the major street in the middle of a shopping area.
- E Jefferson Street - Thomas Jefferson
- E Main Street - common name for the major street in the middle of a shopping area.
- E Market Street - common name for the major street in the middle of a shopping area.
- E South Street - common name for the major street in the middle of a shopping area.
- E Water Street - a stream flowed through the area
- Earhart Street - unknown
- Early Street - the Early family, either John Early (namesake of Earlysville) or his son, Confederate general and Lost Cause promoter Jubal Early
- Eastview Street - unknown
- Edge Hill Road - unknown
- Edgewood Ln - unknown
- Elizabeth Avenue - unknown
- Elkhorn Road - unknown
- Elliewood Avenue – Ellie Wood Page Keith Baxter, daughter of Eliza Mason Page. Her mother, also a descendant of George Mason, opened a rooming house business in the nearby previous home of Richard Anderson, founder of the Anderson Brothers Bookstore (now the site of Ragged Mountain Running Shop, 3 Elliewood Avenue). Little Ellie Wood thought of the tenants, many UVA students, as big brothers. One afternoon, they stuck a sign onto a telephone pole at the corner of the street that said, “Ellie Wood Avenue.” The sign was eventually taken down, but the name stuck. [5] First street in the city bearing a woman's name.
- Elliott Avenue -
- Elm Street - presumably the tree
- Elsom Street - unknown
- Emmet Street - unknown
- Emmet Street South - unknown
- Eric Place - unknown
- Essex Road - unknown
- Estes Street - unknown
- Eton Road - unknown
- Evergreen Avenue - unknown
(F)
- Fairway Avenue - unknown
- Farish Street – namesake of property owner Capt. Thomas Laughlin Farish (1823-1885). Once part of The Farm, one of the finest farms in the country prior to the Civil War, Capt. Farish purchased the large farm and estate house in 1845. In the 1850's, members of the Farish family lived 532 Park Street, located at the corner of Park Street and Farish Street.
- Farm Lane – namesake of The Farm located at 12th Street and Jefferson. An eighteenth century farm that lay east of early Charlottesville which dated from 1825.
- Fauquier Road - unknown
- Fendall Avenue - unknown
- Fendall Terrace - unknown
- Fern Court - presumably the tree
- Field Road - named for the field portion of the 200-acre property surrounding the Rugby Hall and owned by the Rosser family (Thomas L. Rosser and Elizabeth Winston Rosser). Field Road is one of the flatter streets in the otherwise hilly neighborhood.
- Finley Alley - unknown
- Flint Drive - unknown
- Florence Road - unknown
- Fontaine Avenue - likely for William M. Fontaine, first professor of natural history at University of Virginia (hired in1878)
- Forest Hills Avenue - presumably the trees
- Forest Ridge Road - presumably the trees
- Forest Street – presumably named in honor of W.M. Forrest a prominent city official during the city’s annexation of the Rose Hill territory in 1916. Old street name: Forrest Street (1916-1950's)
- Foxbrook Lane - unknown
- Francis Fife Way – in honor of Francis Fife who served as Mayor of Charlottesville from 1972 to 1974.
- Franklin Street - unknown
(G)
- Galloway Drive - unknown
- Garden Drive - unknown
- Garden Street - unknown
- 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
- Gildersleeve Wood - Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve. Elected professor of Greek at the University of Virginia in 1856, he served as aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Gilham, and later on that of Gen. J. B. Gordon in the Confederate Army. When the Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876, Gildersleeve was one of five original full professors. An unapologetic defense of slavery during and after the Civil War, he was elected president of the American Philological Association in 1877 and again in 1908 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as of various learned societies. Father-in-law of Benjamin Tonsler; grandfather of Basil Tonsler and Gildersleeve Tonsler.
- Gillespie Avenue - unknown
- Gleason Street - H. M. Gleason & Sons Feed and Farm Supply Store once located at 126 Garrett Street, 1873-2004.
- Glendale Road - 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
- Gordon Avenue - possibly Confederate officer and Lost Cause advocate John Brown Gordon as it is parallel to Grady Avenue, possibly named for white supremacist journalist Henry W. Grady ; also possibly William Fitzhugh Gordon Jr., a Confederate politician and soldier and for whom Enderly was constructed.
- Grace Street - unknown
- Grady Avenue - possibly named for white supremacist journalist Henry W. Grady, as it is parallel to Gordon Avenue, possibly named for Confederates John B. Gordon or William F. Gordon, Jr.
- Graves Street - Lewis W. Graves, developer of the Graves Addition area of Belmont
- Green Street - unknown
- Greenbrier Drive - presumably, a botanical name
- Greenbrier Terrace - presumably, a botanical name
- Greenleaf Lane - presumably, a botanical name
- Greenway Road - presumably, a botanical name
- Greenwich Court - presumably Greenwich, Connecticut (co-located with Waterbury, Hartford, and Danbury Courts, which abbreviates to "Ct" same as the abbreviation for Conneticut)
- Grimes Place - unknown
- Grove Avenue - Derived from the “Locust Grove” estate and its main house.
- Grove Road - unknown
- Grove Street - unknown
- Grove St Extended - unknown
- Grover Court - unknown
(H)
- Hammond Street - unknown
- Hampton Street - likely Wade Hampton III (Confederate officer and white supremacist from South Carolina), given the development of the Belmont subdivision by Confederate Bartlett Bolling; less likely to be after Hampton, Virginia.
- Hanover Street - unknown
- Hardwood Avenue - presumably, a botanical name referencing a classification of tree wood
- Hardy Drive - Rev. R. B. Hardy
- Harmon Street - unknown
- Harris Road - W. D. Harris or former mayor R. F. Harris
- Harris Street - W. D. Harris or former mayor R. F. Harris
- Harrow Road - unknown
- Hartford Court - unknown
- Hartmans Mill Road – Hartman family, notably Henry (1815–1902?) and Jacob, who owned and operated Hartman's Mill
- Hazel Street - botanical name
- Hedge Street - unknown
- Hemlock Lane - unknown
- Henry Avenue - unknown
- Hereford Drive - UVA President and physics professor Frank L. Hereford
- Herndon Road - unknown
- Hessian Road - Presumably after the German mercenaries (commonly known as “Hessians”) housed at Albemarle Barracks from 1779 to 1781, during the American Revolution. Located between Barracks Road and Blue Ridge Road.
- Highland Avenue - unknown
- Hill Street - unknown
- Hillcrest Road - unknown
- Hillsdale Drive - unknown
- Hilltop Road - unknown
- Hillwood Place - unknown
- Hilton Drive - unknown
- Hinton Avenue - unknown
- Holiday Drive - unknown
- Holly Court - botanical name
- Holly Drive - botanical name
- Holly Road - botanical name
- Holly Street - botanical name
- Holmes Avenue - likely George Frederick Holmes, professor at UVA and slavery advocate
- Howard Drive - unknown
- Huntley Avenue - unknown
- Hurst Lane - unknown
- Hydraulic Road - Hydraulic Mills
(I)
- India Road - unknown
- International Drive - unknown
- Ivy Road - the unincorporated community of Ivy to which it leads, which itself is named for Ivy Creek
(J)
- Jamestown Drive - Jamestown, Virginia
- Jeanette Lancaster Way - Jeanette Lancaster, former Dean of Nursing at UVA
- Jefferson Park Avenue – Thomas Jefferson, formerly known as Fry's Springs Road.
- Jefferson Park Circle - Thomas Jefferson
- John Street - unknown
- John W Warner Parkway - namesake of former Republican Sen. John W. Warner, who advocated for the project in Washington D.C. and secured $27 million in federal funds its construction
- Jones Street - unknown
(K)
- Kearney Lane - unknown
- Keene Court - unknown
- Keith Valley Road - unknown
- Kelly Avenue - unknown
- Kelsey Court - unknown
- Kensington Avenue - unknown
- Kent Road - unknown
- Kent Terrace - unknown
- Kenwood Circle - unknown
- Kenwood Lane - unknown
- Kerry Lane - unknown
- Keystone Place - unknown
- King Mountain Road - unknown
- King Street - unknown
- Knoll Street - unknown
(L)
- Lafayette Street - unknown
- Lambeth Lane - unknown
- Landonia Circle - unknown
- Lane Road - unknown
- Lankford Avenue – Named in honor of W. A. Lankford (1859-1922), former superintendent of city streets and sanitation, he supervised the opening of many new streets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
- Latrobe Court - unknown
- Laurel Circle - unknown
- Leake Lane - unknown
- Lee Street - presumably, Confederate general Robert E. Lee
- Lehigh Circle - unknown
- Leigh Place - unknown
- Leonard Street - unknown
- Lester Drive - unknown
- Levy Avenue - Levy family, including Uriah P. Levy who purchased Monticello from the Jefferson/Randolph family and Jefferson Monroe Levy who was a property owner in the vicinity of the street
- Lewis Mountain Circle - unknown
- Lewis Mountain Road - unknown
- Lewis Street - unknown
- Lexington Avenue - unknown
- Lide Place - unknown
- Lili Lane - unknown
- Linda Court - unknown
- Linden Avenue - unknown
- Linden Street - unknown
- Little Graves Street - Lewis W. Graves, developer of the Graves Addition area of Belmont
- Little High Street - unknown
- Lochlyn Hill Drive - unknown
- Locust Avenue – namesake of Locust Grove Plantation (810 Locust Avenue). Greek-Revival plantation house built for George Sinclair around 1840.
- Locust Lane Court - Locust Grove Plantation , same as Locust Avenue
- Locust Lane - Locust Grove Plantation , same as Locust Avenue
- Lodge Creek Circle - unknown
- Long Street - W.F. Long
- Longwood Drive - unknown
- Lyman Street - unknown
- Lyons Avenue - Lyons House (1858) on Lyons Court.
- Lyons Court Lane - Lyons House (1858) on Lyons Court.
- Lyons Court - Lyons House (1858).
(M)
- Madison Avenue - named after James Madison
- Madison Lane - named after James Madison
- Malcolm Crescent - unknown
- Manila Street - unknown
- Maple Street - presumably the tree.
- Merchant Street - unknown
- Marie Place - unknown
- Marion Court - unknown
- Marshall Court – Named in honor of the family of the wife of the principal subdivision developer, R.M. Davis. The road was originally laid out as part of a proposed subdivision which now leads to city park land. Subdivision: Maple Hill (ca. 1965)
- Marshall Street – Marshall family or a specific Marshall; R.M. Davis subdivision developer’s wife's maiden name.
- Martin Street – name of attorney listed on 1900 property deed of sale.
- Mason Lane - unknown
- Mason Street - unknown
- Massie Road - unknown
- Maury Avenue - likely Matthew Fontaine Maury, Confederate naval officer, oceanographer, and ardent colonialist
- Maywood Lane - unknown
- McElroy Drive - unknown
- McIntire Park Drive - Paul Goodloe McIntire, who donated 92 acres for the adjacent park
- McIntire Road – Paul Goodloe McIntire
- Meade Avenue - unknown
- Meadow Street - unknown
- Meadow Way - unknown
- Meadowbrook Court - unknown
- Meadowbrook Heights Road - unknown
- Meadowbrook Road - unknown
- Megan Court - unknown
- Melbourne Park Circle - unknown
- Melbourne Road - unknown
- Melissa Place - unknown
- Meridian Street - unknown
- Meriwether Street - unknown
- Michael Place - unknown
- Michie Drive - unknown
- Middlesex Drive - unknown
- Middleton Lane - unknown
- Midland Street - unknown
- Midmont Lane - unknown
- Milford Terrace - unknown
- Millmont Street - unknown
- Minor Court Lane - unknown
- Minor Road - unknown
- Mobile Lane - unknown
- Monroe Lane - James Monroe
- Monte Vista Avenue - unknown
- Montebello Circle – Historic plantation home of Montebello.
- Monticello Avenue - Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson
- Monticello Road - Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson
- Montpelier Street – Plantation of James Madison [[1]]
- Montrose Avenue - unknown
- Moore Avenue - unknown
- Moore Street - unknown
- Morgan Court - unknown
- Morris Paul Court - unknown
- Morris Road - unknown
- Morton Drive - unknown
- Morton Lane - unknown
- Moseley Drive - unknown
- Mountain View Street - unknown
- Mowbray Place - unknown
- Mulberry Avenue - unknown
- Myrtle Street - unknown
(N)
- Nalle Street - unknown
- Nassau Street - unknown
- Naylor Street - unknown
- Nelson Drive - unknown
- Nicholson Street - unknown
- North Avenue - unknown
- North Baker Street - unknown
- North Berkshire Road - unknown
- Northwood Avenue - unknown
- Northwood Circle - unknown
- Norwich Street - presumably the tree
- Nunley Street - unknown
(O)
- Oak Lawn Court - presumably the tree
- Oak Lawn Drive - presumably the tree
- Oak Street - presumably the circa 1863, 14-acre municipal Oakwood Cemetery which contains massive oak trees. The cemetery is located along Elliott Avenue and is bordered on the north by Oak Street and on the east by 1st Street.
- Oakhurst Circle - unknown
- Oakleaf Lane - presumably the tree
- Oakmont Street - presumably the tree
- Observatory Avenue - road (somewhat) aligned on the summit Mount Jefferson (also known as Observatory Hill or "O-Hill")
- Old 5th Street - unknown
- Old Farm Road - presumably for the farm buildings associated with the 200-acre property owned by Confederate general Thomas L. Rosser and Elizabeth Winston Rosser as part of Rugby Hall.
- Old Fifth Circle - unknown
- Old Lynchburg Road - road leading to Lynchburg, Virginia (historically referred to as Hills City and/or City of Seven Hills)
- Old Preston Avenue - previously connected to Preston Avenue
- Olinda Drive - unknown
- Orange Street - unknown
- Orangedale Avenue - unknown
- Otter Street - unknown
- Oxford Place - unknown
- Oxford Road - unknown
(P)
- Page Street - unknown
- Palatine Avenue - unknown
- Paoli Street - unknown
- Park Hill - location/topography; runs north-west from Park Street ends at crest of hill.
- Park Lane E - unknown
- Park Lane W - unknown
- Park Plaza - unknown
- Park Road - unknown
- Park Street - unknown
- Parker Place - unknown
- Parkway Street - unknown
- Paton Street - unknown
- Peartree Lane
- Pen Park Lane - Pen Park estate. Formerly Penn Park Lane
- Pen Park Road - Pen Park estate; also referred to as Penn Park (ca. 1914)
- Penick Court - unknown
- Pepsi Place - Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Central Virginia
- Perry Drive - unknown
- Peterson Place - unknown
- Piedmont Avenue North - geography; "Piedmont" comes from the Italian word "Piemonte", meaning foothill.
- The northern Piedmont is a triangle between Washington, DC, Richmond, and Charlottesville.
- Piedmont Avenue South - geography; "Piedmont" comes from the Italian word "Piemonte", meaning foothill.
- Pine Street - presumably the tree
- Pine Top Road - presumably the tree
- Plateau Road - geography
- Plymouth Road - unknown
- Poplar Street - presumably the tree
- Porter Avenue - unknown
- Preston Avenue – currently Asalie Minor Preston, renamed for her in 2019. Formerly land owners named Preston and/or Thomas Lewis Preston.
- Preston Place - landowner Thomas L. Preston;
- Price Avenue - unknown
- Prospect Avenue - unknown
- Putnam Alley - unknown
(Q)
- Quarry Road - for the stone quarry the road previously led to
(R)
- Rainier Road - the cherry varietal; intersecting with Bing Road (another cherry varietal)
- Raymond Avenue - unknown
- Raymond Road - unknown
- Rayon Street - unknown
- Rialto Street - unknown
- Ricky Road - unknown
- Ridge-Mcintire Road - unknown
- Ridge Street - self-explanatory (topography)
- Ridgecrest Drive - self-explanatory (topography)
- Rio Road - unknown
- Rivanna Avenue - unknown
- River Court - unknown
- River Road - unknown
- River Vista Avenue - unknown
- Riverbluff Circle - self-explanatory (Rivanna River)
- Riverdale Drive - unknown
- Riverside Avenue - self-explanatory (Rivanna River)
- Riverview Avenue - self-explanatory (Rivanna River)
- Rives Street - Alexander Rives
- Roades Court - unknown
- Robertson Avenue - unknown
- Robertson Lane - unknown
- Robinson Place - unknown
- Robinson Woods - unknown
- Rock Creek Road - unknown
- Rockland Avenue - unknown
- Roosevelt Brown Boulevard – Roosevelt "Rosie" Brown Jr., first African American professional football player from Charlottesville to be named to the NFL Hall of Fame; an American football player.
- Rosa Terrace - unknown
- Rose Hill Drive - Located in the Rose Hill Neighborhood and previously named Rose Hill Street. Rose Hill property (William Wirt; Richard Sampson; John H. Craven; Sandidge Home), late 18th century house razed ca. 1933. [6] In 1795, Dr. George Gilmer's daughter Mildred Gilmer, married William Wirt; Dr. Gilmer gave his son-in-law William Wirt part of his Pen Park estate, property which he named Rose Hill.
- Rosser Avenue East - Rosser Family. Part of the estate purchased by Confederate general Thomas L. Rosser in 1883.
- Rosser Avenue West - Rosser Family. Part of the estate purchased by Confederate general Thomas L. Rosser in 1883.
- Rosser Lane - Rosser Family. Part of the estate purchased by Confederate general Thomas L. Rosser in 1883.
- Rothery Road - unknown
- Rougemont Avenue - unknown
- Roys Place - unknown
- Rugby Avenue - Rugby (house)
- Rugby Circle - Rugby (house)
- Rugby Place - Rugby (house)
- Rugby Road - Rugby (house)
- Run Street - unknown
- Rutledge Avenue - unknown
(S)
- Sadler Street - unknown
- Seminole Court - unknown
- Seminole Trail - unknown; in 1928, the Virginia General Assembly (Senate Bill 64) voted to approve an act naming route 29 the Seminole Trail.
- Shale Place - unknown
- Shamrock Road - unknown
- Shasta Court - unknown
- Shelby Drive - unknown
- Sheridan Avenue - United States Army General Philip Sheridan, whose forces liberated Charlottesville from Confederate control in 1865 and made their camp in the vicinity of the street
- Sherwood Road - unknown
- Slate Place - unknown
- Smith Street - unknown
- Somesso Court - unknown
- Sonoma Street - unknown
- Spottswood Road - unknown
- Sprigg Lane - unknown
- Spring Street - unknown
- Spruce Street - presumably the tree
- St Annes Drive - unknown
- St Annes Road - unknown
- St Charles Avenue - unknown
- St Charles Court - unknown
- St Clair Avenue - unknown
- St George Avenue - unknown
- St James Circle - unknown
- Stadium Road - unknown
- Steephill Street - unknown
- Stewart Circle - unknown
- Stewart Street - unknown
- Stonefield Lane - unknown
- Stonehenge Avenue - unknown
- Stratford Court - unknown
- Stribling Avenue - unknown
- Summit Street - unknown
- Sunrise Park Lane - unknown
- Sunset Avenue - unknown
- Sunset Road - unknown
- Swanson Drive - unknown
- Swift Lane - unknown
- Sycamore Street - botanical name, as with adjacent streets
(T)
- Tarleton Drive - presumably General Banastre Tarleton
- Taylor Street - unknown
- Thomas Drive - unknown
- Thomson Road - unknown
- Todd Avenue - unknown
- Trailridge Road - unknown
- Tripper Court - unknown
- Troost Court - unknown
- Tufton Avenue - Tufton farm, one of Thomas Jefferson's quarter farms and borders the Monticello plantation.
- Tunlaw Place - unknown
- Twyman Road - Twyman family, including Fred W. Twyman
(U)
- University Avenue – University of Virginia
- University Circle – University of Virginia
- University Court – University of Virginia
- University Grounds – University of Virginia
- University Minor – University of Virginia
- University Way – University of Virginia
(V)
- Valley Circle - Topography
- Valley Road - Topography
- Valley Road Ext - Topography
- Valley View Circle - Topography
- Village Court- unknown
- Village Road- unknown
- Vine Street- unknown
- Virginia Avenue- State of Virginia
(W)
- W High Street- unknown
- W Jefferson Street- Thomas Jefferson
- W Main Street - self-explanatory
- W Market Street - named for the type of commerce or industry found there.
- W South Street - unknown
- W Water Street - unknown
- Walker Square - unknown
- Walker Street - unknown
- Walnut Street - presumably the tree
- Ward Avenue - unknown
- Ware Street - unknown
- Warren Lane - unknown
- Washington Avenue - unknown
- Waterbury Court - unknown
- Watson Avenue - Watson family or a specific Watson. The John Davis Watson family owned Hard Bargain located a few hundred feet to the north at 1105 Park Street.
- Wayside Place - unknown
- Welk Place - unknown
- Wellford Street - unknown
- Wertland Street - takes its name from the family of William Wertenbaker. Located in the Wertland Street Historic District.[7]
- West Street - in the neighborhood of 10th and Page, was named for John West, a former slave. A barber by trade, over time West made a substantial return from real estate investments. His house was located in the 300 block (land is now part of the Westhaven development.) [8] West Street is named for an African American.[9]
- Westerly Avenue - unknown
- Westview Road - presumably for the view across the western portion of the 200-acre property owned by Confederate general Thomas L. Rosser and Elizabeth Winston Rosser.
- Westwood Circle - unknown
- Westwood Road - unknown
- Wilder Drive - unknown
- Willard Drive - unknown
- Willow Drive - presumably a botanical name
- Wilson Court - unknown
- Wine Cellar Circle - named for the Monticello Wine Company located at the end of Wine Street, near Hedge Street. Founded in 1873, it was the largest winery in the South.
- Wine Street - named for the Monticello Wine Company located at the end of the street, founded in 1873.
- Winston Road - in the Venable neighborhood, named for Elizabeth Winston, wife of Confederate general Thomas L. Rosser. Winston Rd. and Rosser Ln. intersect at a corner of the block encompassing Rugby Hall, which the Rossers purchased in 1885.
- Winston Terrace - unknown
- Wise Street - unknown
- Witton Court - unknown
- Woodfolk Drive - unknown
- Woodland Drive - unknown
- Woodrow Street - unknown
(Y)
- Yorktown Drive - Yorktown, Virginia site of the Siege of Yorktown (1862), the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War
(Z)
- Zan Road – unknown
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
- ↑ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000196692&view=1up&seq=33
- ↑ Web. The Cabell Family, University of Virginia Special Collections Library, 2018
- ↑ Sheridan R. Barringer, Custer's Gray Rival, (Burlington, NC, 2019), 249.
- ↑ Web. Kenneth R. Crispell, 79, Dean And Health Expert on Presidents, New York Times, Aug. 26, 1996, retrieved 2020-10-14.
- ↑ https://uvamagazine.org/articles/the_golden_age_of_the_rooming_house_matrons
- ↑ http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?query=Roslyn&docId=uva-sc%2Fviu03696.xml&chunk.id=
- ↑ https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/104-0136/
- ↑ http://www.charlottesville.org/community/neighborhood-connection/10th-and-page
- ↑ http://www.c-ville.com/Rosey_homecoming/
- ↑ Web. 1950 Census Enumeration District Maps - Virginia (VA) - Charlottesville City - Charlottesville - ED 104-1 to 31, US Census Bureau
- ↑ https://v3.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2681176/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2681197/3799.5/4438.5/4/1/0
- ↑ https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/104-0048_Wyndhurst_2018_NR_Summary_Proposed_Relocation.pdf