Template:On this day/July 19

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Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

July 19:

  • 1801Charlottesville incorporated as a town, the Virginia General Assembly authorized a government of five trustees who were to maintain streets, settle boundary disputes, authorize a market, quiet public nuisances, appoint a town clerk, and collect taxes to no more than $200.
  • 1915Rufus W. Holsinger took portrait photographs of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) in his Charlottesville studio. While in Charlottesville, she lived with her mother and two sisters in her mother’s boardinghouse on Wertland Street, a building that still houses students today.