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The following is a list of streets and their namesakes.
- Ackley Lane - unknown
- Agnese Street - unknown
- Ainsley Alley - unknown
- Albemarle Street - unknown
- Alderman Road - unknown
- Allen Drive - unknown
- Allied Lane - unknown
- Allied Street - unknown
- Almere Avenue - unknown
- Altamont Circle - unknown
- Altamont Street - unknown
- Altavista Avenue - unknown
- 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 Blvd - unknown
- Ashby Place - unknown
- Augusta Street - unknown
- Avon Street - unknown
- Azalea Drive - unknown
- 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 - unknown
- Belmont Cottage Lane - unknown
- Belmont Park - unknown
- Bennett Street - unknown
- Berring Street - unknown
- Bing Lane - unknown
- Bingler Street - unknown
- Birdwood Court - unknown
- Birdwood Road - unknown
- Bland Circle - unknown
- Blenheim Avenue - unknown
- Blincoe Land - unknown
- Blue Ridge Road - unknown
- Bolling Avenue – Major Bartlett Bolling (CSA), a member of the Bolling family, a First Family of Virginia and prominent family in early U.S. history and 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 - unknown
- 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 - unknown
- Burnet Street - unknown
- Burnet Way - unknown
- Burnley Avenue - unknown
- Cabell Avenue - unknown
- Calhoun Street - unknown
- Cambridge Circle - unknown
- Camellia Drive - unknown
- Cameron Lane - unknown
- Cargil Lane - unknown
- Carl Smith Street - unknown
- 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 - unknown
- Chelsea Drive - unknown
- Cherry Avenue - presumably the tree
- Cherry Street - presumably the tree
- Chesapeake Street - presumably the bay
- Chestnut Street - presumably the tree
- Chisholm Place - unknown
- Christa Court - unknown
- Church Street - unknown
- City Walk Way - unknown
- 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 - unknown
- Cottonwood Road - presumably the tree
- Court Square - unknown
- Cream Street - unknown
- Cresap Road - unknown
- Crestmont Avenue - unknown
- Crispell Drive - unknown
- Crossover - unknown
- Cutler Lane - unknown
- Cynthianna Avenue - unknown
- Dairy Road - unknown
- Dale Avenue - unknown
- Dalton Lane - unknown
- Danbury Court - unknown
- Darien Terrace - unknown
- David Terrace - unknown
- Davis Ave - 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 High Street - unknown
- E Jefferson Street - unknown
- E Main Street - unknown
- E Market Street - unknown
- E South Street - unknown
- E Water Street - unknown
- Earhart Street - unknown
- Early Street - unknown
- Eastview Street - unknown
- Edge Hill Road - unknown
- Edgewood Ln - unknown
- Elizabeth Avenue - unknown
- Elkhorn Road - unknown
- Elliewood Avenue – Ellie Wood Page Keith (First woman to have city street named after her.)
- Elliott Avenue - unknown
- 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
- Fairway Avenue - unknown
- Farish Street – namesake of property owner’s, the Farish family at 532 Park 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 - unknown
- Finley Alley - unknown
- Flint Drive - unknown
- Florence Road - unknown
- Fontaine Avenue - unknown
- Forest Hills Avenue - presumably the trees
- Forest Ridge Road - presumably the trees
- Forest Street – Originally named “Forrest” Street between 1916 to 1950’s, probably name in honor of W.M. Forrest a prominent city official during the city’s annexation of the Rose Hill Neighborhood territory in 1916.
- Foxbrook Lane - unknown
- Francis Fife Way – in honor of Francis Fife who served as Mayor of Charlottesville from 1972 to 1974.
- Franklin Street - unknown
- Galloway Drive - unknown
- Garden Drive - unknown
- Garden Street - unknown
- Garrett Street – formerly known as ‘Garretts Avenue’ and City Line in 1877. Alexander Garrett held numerous lots within Charlottesville’s corporate limits until his death in 1861. Alexander Garrett (namesake for Garrett Street and UVA’s Garrett Hall) platted his Oak Hill farm
- Gentry Lane - unknown
- Gildersleeve Wood - presumably the tree
- Gillespie Avenue - unknown
- Gleason Street - unknown
- Glendale Road - unknown
- Glenn Court - unknown
- Goodman Street - unknown
- Gordon Avenue - unknown
- Grace Street - unknown
- Grady Avenue - unknown
- Graves Street - unknown
- Green Street - unknown
- Greenbrier Drive - presumably the tree
- Greenbrier Terrace - presumably the tree
- Greenleaf Lane - presumably the tree
- Greenway Road - presumably the tree
- Greenwich Court - unknown
- Grimes Place - unknown
- Grove Avenue - presumably the tree
- Grove Road - presumably the tree
- Grove Street - presumably the tree
- Grove St Extended - presumably the tree
- Grover Court - presumably the tree
- Hammond Street - unknown
- Hampton Street - unknown
- Hanover Street - unknown
- Hardwood Avenue - presumably the tree
- Hardy Drive - unknown
- Harmon Street - unknown
- Harris Road - unknown
- Harris Street - unknown
- Harrow Road - unknown
- Hartford Court - unknown
- Hartmans Mill Road – road leading to the mill by same name.
- Hazel Street - unknown
- Hedge Street - unknown
- Hemlock Lane - unknown
- Henry Avenue - unknown
- Hereford Drive - unknown
- Herndon Road - unknown
- Hessian Road - unknown
- 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 - unknown
- Holly Drive - presumably the tree
- Holly Road - presumably the tree
- Holly Street - presumably the tree
- Holmes Avenue - unknown
- Howard Drive - unknown
- Huntley Avenue - unknown
- Hurst Lane - unknown
- Hydraulic Road - unknown
- India Road - unknown
- International Drive - unknown
- Ivy Road - unknown
- Jamestown Drive - unknown
- Jeanette Lancaster Way - unknown
- Jefferson Park Avenue – formerly known as Fry's Springs Road
- Jefferson Park Circle - unknown
- John Street - unknown
- John W Warner Parkway - namesake of former Republican Sen. John W. Warner, advocated for the project in Washington D.C. and secured $27 million in federal funds for the road construction.
- Jones Street - unknown
- 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
- Lafayette Street - unknown
- Lambeth Lane - unknown
- Landonia Circle - unknown
- Lane Road - unknown
- Lankford Avenue – Named in honor of W. A. Lankford, ex-superintendent of city streets and sanitation and 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 - unknown
- Lehigh Circle - unknown
- Leigh Place - unknown
- Leonard Street - unknown
- Lester Drive - unknown
- Levy Avenue - unknown
- 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 - unknown
- 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 - presumably the tree
- Locust Lane - presumably the tree
- Lodge Creek Circle - unknown
- Long Street - unknown
- Longwood Drive - unknown
- Lyman Street - unknown
- Lyons Avenue - unknown
- Lyons Court Lane - unknown
- Lyons Court - unknown
- Madison Avenue - unknown
- Madison Lane - unknown
- 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 - unknown
- Maywood Lane - unknown
- Mcelroy Drive - unknown
- Mcintire Park Drive - Paul Goodloe McIntire donating 92 acres for the park that would eventually bear his name.
- Mcintire Road – Paul Goodloe McIntire is acknowledged as one of the great benefactors of the City of Charlottesville, the County of Albemarle and also the University of Virginia.
- 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 - unknown
- Monte Vista Avenue - unknown
- Montebello Circle – Historic Home [[1]].
- Monticello Avenue - Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson
- Monticello Road - Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson
- Montpelier Street – Historic home of James Madison [[2]]
- Montrose Avenue - unknown
- Moore Avenue - unknown
- Moores 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
- 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
- Oak Lawn Court - presumably the tree
- Oak Lawn Drive - presumably the tree
- Oak Street - presumably the tree
- Oakhurst Circle - unknown
- Oakleaf Lane - presumably the tree
- Oakmont Street - presumably the tree
- Observatory Avenue - unknown
- Old 5th Street - unknown
- Old Farm Road - unknown
- Old Fifth Circle - unknown
- Old Lynchburg Road - unknown
- Old Preston Avenue - unknown
- Olinda Drive - unknown
- Orange Street - unknown
- Orangedale Avenue - unknown
- Otter Street - unknown
- Oxford Place - unknown
- Oxford Road - unknown
- Page Street - unknown
- Palatine Avenue - unknown
- Paoli Street - unknown
- Park Hill - unknown
- 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 Road - unknown
- Penick Court - unknown
- Pepsi Place - unknown
- Perry Drive - unknown
- Peterson Place - unknown
- Piedmont Avenue N - unknown
- Piedmont Avenue S - unknown
- Pine Street - presumably the tree
- Pine Top Road - presumably the tree
- Plateau Road - unknown
- Plymouth Road - unknown
- Poplar Street - presumably the tree
- Porter Avenue - unknown
- Preston Avenue – Thomas L. Preston a professor and member of the Board of Visitors. He served as part of the staff under General Joseph E. Johnston in the Confederate army. One of three professors who met Generals Philip Sheridan and George Custer at UVA and protected the University from major damage. https://www.civilwar.vt.edu/wordpress/thomas-lewis-preston-southern-gentleman/
- Preston Place - Colonel Thomas L. Preston
- Price Avenue - unknown
- Prospect Avenue - unknown
- Putnam Alley - unknown
- Quarry Road - unknown
- Rainier Road - unknown
- Ramp - unknown
- Raymond Avenue - unknown
- Raymond Road - unknown
- Rayon Street - unknown
- Rialto Street - unknown
- Ricky Road - unknown
- Ridge Mcintire Rd - unknown
- Ridge Street - unknown
- Ridgecrest Drive - unknown
- Rio Road - unknown
- Rivanna Avenue - unknown
- River Court - unknown
- River Road - unknown
- River Vista Avenue - unknown
- Riverbluff Circle - unknown
- Riverdale Drive - unknown
- Riverside Avenue - unknown
- Riverview Avenue - unknown
- Rives Street - unknown
- Roades Ct - unknown
- Robertson Avenue - unknown
- Robertson Lane - unknown
- Robinson Place - unknown
- Robinson Woods - unknown
- Rock Creek Road - unknown
- Rockland Avenue - unknown
- Roosevelt Brown Blvd – [Rosey Brown] Roosevelt "Rosey" Brown Jr. was an American football player. He was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants (1953–1965). Brown was born in Charlottesville in 1932 and attended [Jefferson High School].
- Rosa Terrace - unknown
- Rose Hill Drive- Dr. George Gilmer Penn Park above) gave his son-in-law William Wirt part of the Penn Park property upon which he built Rose Hill. The property was located on present day Westwood Road, near Rose Hill Drive in Charlottesville, but was raised in 1933.
- Rosser Avenue E - Rosser Family. Part of the estate purchased by General Thomas L. Rosser in 1883.
- Rosser Avenue W - Rosser Family. Part of the estate purchased by General Thomas L. Rosser in 1883.
- Rosser Ln - Rosser Family. Part of the estate purchased by General Thomas L. Rosser in 1883.
- Rothery Road - unknown
- Rougemont Avenue - unknown
- Roys Place - unknown
- Rugby Avenue - unknown
- Rugby Circle - unknown
- Rugby Place - unknown
- Rugby Road - unknown
- Run Street - unknown
- Rutledge Avenue - unknown
- Sadler Street - unknown
- Seminole Court - unknown
- Seminole Trail - unknown
- Shale Place - unknown
- Shamrock Road - unknown
- Shasta Court - unknown
- Shelby Drive - unknown
- Sheridan Avenue - unknown
- 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 Dr - unknown
- St Annes Road - unknown
- St Charles Avenue - unknown
- St Charles Ct - 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 - unknown
- Tarleton Drive - unknown
- Taylor Street - unknown
- Thomas Drive - unknown
- Thomson Road - unknown
- Todd Avenue - unknown
- Trailridge Rd - unknown
- Tripper Court - unknown
- Troost Court - unknown
- Tufton Avenue - unknown
- Tunlaw Place - unknown
- Twyman Road - unknown
- University Avenue – University of Virginia
- University Circle – University of Virginia
- University Court – University of Virginia
- University Grounds – University of Virginia
- University Mnr – University of Virginia
- University Way – University of Virginia
- 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- unknown
- W High Street- unknown
- W Jefferson Street- Thomas Jefferson
- W Main Street - self-explanatory
- W Market Street - unknown
- 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 - unknown
- West Street - unknown
- Westerly Avenue - unknown
- Westview Road - unknown
- Westwood Circle - unknown
- Westwood Road - unknown
- Wilder Drive - unknown
- Willard Drive - unknown
- Willow Drive - unknown
- Wilson Court - unknown
- Wine Cellar Circle - unknown
- Wine Street - unknown
- Winston Road - unknown
- Winston Terrace - unknown
- Wise Street - unknown
- Witton Court - unknown
- Woodfolk Drive - unknown
- Woodland Drive - unknown
- Woodrow Street - unknown
- Yorktown Drive - unknown
- Zan Road – unknown