HISTORICAL GUIDE
TO OLD CHARLOTTESVILLE
With Mention of Its Statues
and of Albemarle’s Shrines
Compiled by
Mary Rawlings
Honorary President of
The Albemarle County Historical Society
Copyright 1958
Mary Rawlings and Velora C. Thomson
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
CONTENTS
PAGE [ALBEMARLE COUNTY COURT HOUSE] 2 [TARLETON AND JACK JOUETT.] 3 [PRESENT COURT HOUSE BUILDING] 4 [JEFFERSON’S WILL] 5 [COURT HOUSE VOTING] 5 [JOHN S. MOSBY.] 6 [BUILDINGS ON THE SQUARE] 7 [TOWN HALL] 7 [SWAN TAVERN] 7 [SLAVE TRADE] 8 [VILLAGE LIBRARY] 9 [SWISS WATCH-MAKER] 9 [EAGLE TAVERN] 9 [“SATAN’S THUMB”] 10 [CIVIL WAR PERIOD] 11 [SHERIDAN’S RAID] 11 [ESCAPE FROM GALLOWS] 12 [MILITARY OCCUPATION] 13 [ALBEMARLE’S SHRINES] 16 [MONTICELLO] 16 [ASH LAWN] 16 [BUILDING OF ASH LAWN] 18 [SALE OF ASH LAWN] 18 [BOXWOOD GARDEN AND STATUE] 19 [THE MICHIE TAVERN] 20 [CHARLOTTESVILLE’S STATUES] 22 [LEWIS AND CLARK STATUE] 22 [LOCATION OF STATUE] 22 [MERIWETHER LEWIS] 22 [WILLIAM CLARK] 23 [LOUISIANA PURCHASE.] 23 [STONEWALL JACKSON STATUE] 24 [GEORGE ROGERS CLARK STATUE] 26 [LEE STATUE] 27 [MINIATURE MODEL OF LEE] 29 [ENVOI] 30
COURT SQUARE
1828
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
Floyd Johnson Courtesy of Alb. Co. Hist. Soc.
Albemarle County Courthouse. Built 1803. J. Rawlings Thomson