* The town of Charlottesville, Virginia, is founded.

Geographically, Richmond is located at the fall line of the James River, west of Williamsburg, east of Charlottesville, and south of Washington, D. C.

Greene County is part of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Radio station WVCV is licensed to Orange and the county is also served by radio stations in the Fredericksburg, Virginia and Charlottesville, Virginia radio markets.

Nelson County is part of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is an hour's drive or less from Richmond, Fredericksburg and Charlottesville.

Fluvanna County is part of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Lake Monticello is from Charlottesville.

Charlottesville is an independent city geographically surrounded by, but separate from, Albemarle County in Virginia, United States, and named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom.

The city is the heart of the Charlottesville metropolitan area which includes Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene and Nelson counties.

* Camp Sugar Hollow is at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville

Amtrak Train 50, the eastbound Cardinal, is scheduled to depart Connersville at 1: 26 a. m. on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday with a service to Cincinnati, Maysville, South Portsmouth, Ashland, Huntington, Charleston, Montgomery, Thurmond, Prince, Hinton, Alderson, White Sulphur Springs, Clifton Forge, Staunton, Charlottesville, Culpeper, Manassas, Alexandria and Washington, DC, and continuing on to New York City.

Amtrak Train 50, the eastbound Cardinal, is scheduled to depart Dyer at 8: 57pm on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday with service to Lafayette, Crawfordsville, Indianapolis, Connersville, Cincinnati, Maysville, South Portsmouth, Ashland, Huntington, Charleston, Montgomery, Thurmond, Prince, Hinton, Alderson, White Sulphur Springs, Clifton Forge, Staunton, Charlottesville, Culpeper, Manassas, Alexandria, and Washington, DC and continuing on to New York City.

Amtrak Train 50, the eastbound Cardinal, is scheduled to depart Dyer at 10: 30 pm on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday with service to Indianapolis, Connersville, Cincinnati, Maysville, South Portsmouth, Ashland, Huntington, Charleston, Montgomery, Thurmond, Prince, Hinton, Alderson, White Sulphur Springs, Clifton Forge, Staunton, Charlottesville, Culpeper, Manassas, Alexandria, and Washington, DC and continuing on to New York City.

It is situated along the I-64 corridor approximately west of Charlottesville and east of Staunton.

Crozet is part of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Crozet is home to the Starr Hill Brewery since 2005, having relocated from nearby Charlottesville.

Interstate 95 is accessible via 3 east to Fredericksburg, Interstate 64 is accessible via U. S. Route 29 south to Charlottesville and U. S. Route 15 south in Zion Crossroads, Interstate 66 is accessible via U. S. Route 29 north, Interstate 81 is accessible via U. S. Route 522 north in Winchester.

President Jefferson described Gordon's in 1802 as a " good house " when recommending the best route south to Charlottesville from the recently established national capital on the Potomac.

Jack and Anderson, now legally called Anastasia Manahan, became well known in the Charlottesville area as eccentrics.

" He is also known to have lived nearby at the time of Beale's encounters with Morriss ; in the 1820s he was a student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

At one time, the community was known as " Charlotte " and " Charlottesville ," but then was renamed Newfane (" New Fane " = " New Church ").

Queer Nation chapters were founded in dozens of other cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Charlottesville, Virginia, Chicago, Columbus, Ohio, Columbia, S. C., Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal ( known as Queer Nation Rose ), Philadelphia ( known as Queer Action ), Nashville, San Francisco, Seattle and Toronto.

Also in 1854, the O & A was granted permission by the Virginia General Assembly to build southward from Charlottesville to Lynchburg ( O & A had to pay to use what are now known as trackage rights over the Virginia Central Railroad for a section from Gordonsville to Charlottesville ).

Another proposed rail project, known as the Transdominion Express, would connect to SEHSR and extend from Richmond west to Lynchburg and from Washington, DC ( Alexandria ) south via an existing Virginia Railway Express route to Manassas, extending on south to Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Roanoke and Bristol on the Tennessee border.

Today I have approved and announced the creation of such a center to be known as the Federal Executive Institute and to be located at Charlottesville, Virginia in collaboration with the University of Virginia.

Her sister Rose Hill, who is a well known artist also resides in Charlottesville.

Charlottesville was also the home of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia and to have survived the massacre of the Russian Imperial Family.

She sang a song specifically about the town and University titled " Wa-Hoo-Wa " that began, " Oh, Charlottesville, illustrious name ,/ The home of Jefferson you claim ;/ The lap of learning, font of fame —" and was set to the tune of " Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay ," with the catchy chorus sung as " Wa-hoo-wa you-vee-ay.

Director Mark Rydell viewed the characters in this drama as iconically American, and he was eager to cast Sissy Spacek as the farm wife because of her performance in Coal Miner's Daughter and her home on a farm in near Charlottesville, Virginia.

George Rogers Clark was born on November 19, 1752 in Charlottesville, Virginia, not far from the home of Thomas Jefferson.

Carrie Buck died alone in a nursing home in 1983 ; she was buried in Charlottesville near her only child, Vivian, who had died at age eight.

Scott Stadium ( officially the Carl Smith Center, Home of David A. Harrison III Field at Scott Stadium ), located in Charlottesville, Virginia, is the home of the Virginia Cavaliers football team.

He was a cousin of congressmen Abram Poindexter Maury and John W. Fishburne of Virginia and nephew of congressman James Luther Slayden of Texas who married Ellen ( Maury ) at a Maury home called, " Piedmont ", in Charlottesville, Virginia which is now a part of U. Va.

Upon graduation from high school, he moved away from home, and after moving from the Midwestern States, landed in Charlottesville, Virginia, finding jazz, jazz fusion, and experimental music enthusiasts there.

In subsequent years, Simon Willard visited Thomas Jefferson at his home, Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia.

Garrett died at home in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the age of 78 of cancer.

Deese died at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1999, just three months before his wife also died.

" Hemings lived her last nine years with her two younger sons in Charlottesville, and saw a grandchild born in the house her sons owned.

This informal freedom allowed Hemings to live in Virginia, and she remained with her two youngest sons in nearby Charlottesville for the next nine years.

After the war, Hemings gained informal freedom when her common-law husband, Thomas Bell, a white merchant of Charlottesville, purchased her and their two mixed-race children from Jefferson.

The couple has two daughters, Brooke Ybarra, who works for the federal government, and Emily Dooley, a social studies teacher at Monticello High School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

It was created by two former UVA students in Charlottesville: Rick Kwiatkowski and Jeff Smith.

In 1923, the Anglo-Saxon Club founded two posts in Charlottesville, one for the town and one for students at the University of Virginia.

In response, Virginia Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr. ordered the closings of Warren County High School, two City of Charlottesville schools ( Lane High School and Venable Elementary School ), and six schools in the City of Norfolk.

Group AA schools are somewhat more widely distributed than the other two and found in rapidly growing areas like Loudoun County, in and around cities such as Roanoke, Lynchburg, Harrisonburg, and Charlottesville, and in smaller cities and counties which have a single high school.

Jimmy Buffett made a stop here on his " Summerzcool " tour on November 17, 2009, his first stop in Charlottesville in two decades.

His daughter gave Hemings " her time ", so she was able to live freely in Charlottesville with her two youngest sons, Madison and Eston Hemings, for the rest of her life.

After Jefferson's death, Sally Hemings was " given her time " by his daughter ( who was also her niece ), and lived freely with her two sons in Charlottesville.

The first two were born in Charlottesville.

While the experiment worked sonically ( as evidenced by a fan-traded live recording of a show from the tour's Charlottesville, VA stop ), after two tour legs personal tensions between the two drummers were beginning to mount.