CONTENTS

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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

HISTORICAL GUIDE TO OLD CHARLOTTESVILLE
WITH MENTION OF ITS STATUES AND OF
ALBEMARLE’S SHRINES

Upon the forming of the County of Albemarle in 1745, its boundaries included what are now Buckingham, Amherst, Nelson, and Fluvanna Counties, with parts of Appomattox and Campbell—the Blue Ridge being the Western line. The county seat was then placed in Scottsville on the James, but with final boundary adjustments in 1761 it was felt necessary to remove the court house to a more