The New Student's Reference Work/Charlottesville, Va.

Char′lottesville, Va., a city, the seat of Albemarle County, on the Rivanna River and on the Southern and the Chesapeake & Ohio railroads, about 100 miles northwest of Richmond. It is the seat of the University of Virginia, founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson of Monticello, near by; also the seat of Albemarle College, Rawlings Female Institute and other educational institutions. Settled in 1744, Charlottesville became a city in 1888, and owns its gas and waterworks, which are operated by the municipality. Its industries embrace cigar-factories, wine-presses, flour, planing and woolen mills and textile manufactures. Population (1910), 6,800