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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKEN_c-b-holt-rock-house_Charlottesville-VA.html
African American Charles B. Holt owned a carpentrybusiness in Charlottesville's Vinegar Hill neighborhood. The son of former slaves, Holt built thisArts and Crafts-style house in 1925-1926, duringthe era of segregation when blacks were morethan a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMED9_sacajawea_Charlottesville-VA.html
This plaque is dedicated to Sacajawea, whose contribution of traditional and cultural knowledge, with courage and bravery, earned her recognition in the chronicles of American History.
Sacajawea was a Lemhi Shoshone (Agaidika) born in Salmon, I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEBY_miller-school_Charlottesville-VA.html
W 225A bequest of Samuel Miller (1792-1869) provided funds to found the Miller School in 1878. Miller, a Lynchburg businessman born in poverty in Albemarle County, envisioned a regional school for children who could not afford an education. The sc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD26_jefferson-school_Charlottesville-VA.html
The name Jefferson School has a long associationwith African American education in Charlottesville.It was first used in the 1860s in a Freedmen'sBureau school and then for a public grade schoolby 1894. Jefferson High School opened here in1926 as t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCJS_georgia-o-keeffe_Charlottesville-VA.html
Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887. Her mother moved to Charlottesville in 1909 and rented the house here. Beginningin 1912, O'Keeffe intermittently lived withher mother and sisters. She took a summerdrawing class taught by Mon Bement …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC72_technical-sergeant-frank-d-peregory_Charlottesville-VA.html
Born at Esmont on 10 April 1915, Frank D. Peregory enlisted in May 1931 in Charlottesville's Co. K (Monticello Guard), 116th Inf. Regt., 29th Inf. Div. On D-Day, 6 June 1944, T. Sgt. Peregory landed in the assault on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6IY_buck-v-bell_Charlottesville-VA.html
In 1924, Virginia, like a majority of states then, enacted eugenic sterilization laws. Virginia's law allowed state institutions to operate on individuals to prevent the conception of what were believed to be "genetically inferior" children. Charl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5KY_first-baptist-church-west-main-street_Charlottesville-VA.html
The Charlottesville African Churchcongregation was organized in 1864. Four years later it bought the Delevan building, built in 1828 by Gen. John H. Cocke, and at one time used as a temperance hotel for University of Virginia students. It became p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5KX_claude-moore-m-d_Charlottesville-VA.html
A native of Radford, Virginia, Dr. Moore was a 1916 graduate of the School of Medicine and a gifted player on the University's football team. He served in the Army Medical Corps in France during World War I. Dr. Moore began his career in radiology…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5KU_fernando-s-mon-bol-var_Charlottesville-VA.html
Fernando Bol?var, a native of Venezuela, attended the University of Virginia in 1827. He was the nephew and adopted son of S?mon Bol?var, The Liberator, who sent him to study in the "Republic of Washington and Jefferson." A friend of James Monroe …