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Charlottesville Albemarle
African-American Cultural Arts Festival
910 Rockcreek Road
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: (434) 979-0582
Email: cville-aframerfest@email.com
Web Site: http://www.cvilleafrican-amfest.com/
From it's beginning in July 1989, this festival celebrates the rich heritage of people of African ancestry and their contributions to the community, the nation and the world. Inspired by the 1988 Fredericksburg Black Arts Festival, the 1984 & 1985 Sol Fest and previous festivals, Chihamba recruited a committee under the direction of Jamal Koram, an...
Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
200 Second Street, NE
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: (434) 296-1492
Fax: (434) 296-4576
Email: info@albemarlehistory.org
Web Site: http://www.albemarlehistory.org
Founded in 1940, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society seeks to study, preserve and promote the history of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia. The Society strives to accomplish this mission through a variety of public programs, including exhibits, publications, lectures, walking tours, oral history interviews and various...
Albemarle County Courthouse
501 East Jefferson Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: (434) 972-4083
Email: SMarshal@albemarle.org
The courthouse is open Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. There is no admission fee. Closed for state and federal holidays. Court Square buildings are visible from the street at all times.

Situated in downtown Charlottesville, the Albemarle County Courthouse and the surrounding Court Square area offer a physical reminder of the life of...

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
PO Box 400110
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Email: harrison-small@virginia.edu
Web Site: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/
Special Collections administers over 12 million manuscripts, 2.5 million items in the University archives, and 300,000 rare books, as well as approximately 4,000 maps, over 4,000 broadsides; more than 125,000 photographs and small prints; over 8,000 reels of microfilm and 8,000 microfiche; and substantial holdings of audio recordings, motion picture films,...
Ash Lawn- Highland, Home of President James Monroe
1000 James Monroe Parkway
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: (434) 293-9539
Fax: (434) 293-8000
Email: info@ashlawnhighland.org
Web Site: http://www.ashlawnhighland.org/
Restored home of the 5th president of the United States and close friend of Thomas Jefferson. James Monroe's 550- acre estate recreates the atmosphere of a working farm, with strutting peacocks, spinning and weaving demonstrations, open hearth cooking demonstrations and tours of the house and gardens.

Thomas Jefferson encouraged James Monroe to...

Birthplace of Meriwether Lewis Historical Marker
Rte. 250 West
Ivy, VA 22945
Phone: (804) 367-2323x122
Email: sarnold@dhr.state.va.us
Web Site: http://www.dhr.state.va.us/
One of many Virginia Highway Markers that commemorate people, events or other historic resources within the Commonwealth. Visible from the road 24 hours a day.<

Half a mile north was born, 1774, Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, sent by Jefferson to explore the Far West, 1804-1806. The expedition reached the mouth of the...

Buck Mountain Church
4133 Earlysville Rd
Earlysville, VA 22936
Phone: (434) 973-2054
This house of worship is a rare surviving example of the simple wooden Anglican parish churches scattered through Virginia in the colonial period. Erected to serve Frederick Parish, the building was first completed in 1747. The church was moved to its present site two miles to the west of its original location in 1860.
Christ Episcopal Church Glendower
Route 713
Keene, VA 22946
Phone: (434) 293-2347
No more charming example of the Jeffersonian idiom survives than this small but highly polished rural Episcopal Church erected in 1831-32 in southern Albemarle County.

The building is a product of William B. Phillips, a Jeffersonian workman who designed and built a variety of houses and public buildings in his mentor's...

Confederate Memorial on Court Square
Court Square
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: (877) 386-1102
Charlottesville and Albemarle County were among the last communities in Virginia to erect a monument honoring Confederate soldiers from their area. The bronze statue, whose sculptor remains unknown, is most likely a mass- produced copy of a Confederate soldier "at ready."
Confederate Monument, University Of Virginia Cemetery
Alderman and McCormick Roads
Charlottesville, VA 22901
Phone: (877) 386-1102
Unveiled on June 7, 1893, the monument is in memory of approximately eleven hundred Confederate Soldiers buried at the University of Virginia. The piece consists of a gray granite pedestal twelve feet high on which stands an eight foot bronze statue of a young Confederate solider, hat in hand and rifle at the rest position. Four...
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