Skip to content
mapping albemarle – mapping cville

mapping albemarle – mapping cville

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact

Month: August 2020

August 28, 2020August 29, 2020 jordyyager

4. Belmont: Graves Addition

By Phil Varner  The Belmont neighborhood derives its name from the Belle Mont Estate, a 500+ acre plantation on which much of the neighborhood was built.  The Belmont Mansion plantation house, now converted to apartments, was likely built around 1820 for John Winn, the postmaster of Charlottesville for many years. Immediately prior to residential development, … Continue reading 4. Belmont: Graves Addition

August 10, 2020 jordyyager

NEW: Virtual Logging Workshops

Starting this Thursday, August 13, 2020, we'll be hosting a series of regular hour-long virtual logging workshops via Zoom. Each week, the new link will be posted on the right side of the MappingCville.com homepage, above the video tutorial link, as pictured here. At the top of each hour, these sessions will provide a short … Continue reading NEW: Virtual Logging Workshops

Virtual Workshop

• Contact Us For Details On The Next Deed Logging Workshop

How to Help: Click here to watch a 5-minute training video

Deeds mapped: 600

Instagram

Mapping Albemarle is going strong! Everyday amazing volunteers are logging more and more deeds with racial covenants in them, steadily building our community’s first comprehensive map. Click the link in our profile if you’d like to get involved, every deed helps!
This week I had the huge honor of taking students in @aschool_uva Prof. Erin Putalik’s course “The American House” on a walking tour of the Lewis Mountain neighborhood.
TOMORROW (Thursday—12/9/2021) at 7PM: Join Karen Waters-Wicks, Michele Claibourn, Ridge Schuyler, and Jordy Yager for a Zoom panel discussion on the Continuing Legacy of Exclusionary Housing Practices in Albemarle County. This is a part of the Community Read being put on by Albemarle’s Office of Equity & Inclusion Dr. Irtefa Binte-Farid. Find links to register for tomorrow’s Zoom event as well as the Community Read materials in the Bio.
A brief 9-part series on some of the intersections between Single Family Zoning, Racist Segregation, and Economic Apartheid.

Older posts

  • March 2023 (1)
  • December 2021 (1)
  • February 2021 (1)
  • January 2021 (1)
  • November 2020 (1)
  • September 2020 (1)
  • August 2020 (2)
  • July 2020 (1)
  • February 2020 (2)
  • January 2020 (1)
  • December 2019 (1)
  • November 2019 (1)
  • October 2019 (1)
  • March 2019 (1)
  • February 2019 (1)
  • January 2019 (3)

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Archives

  • March 2023 (1)
  • December 2021 (1)
  • February 2021 (1)
  • January 2021 (1)
  • November 2020 (1)
  • September 2020 (1)
  • August 2020 (2)
  • July 2020 (1)
  • February 2020 (2)
  • January 2020 (1)
  • December 2019 (1)
  • November 2019 (1)
  • October 2019 (1)
  • March 2019 (1)
  • February 2019 (1)
  • January 2019 (3)

Blog Stats

  • 38,686 views
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • mapping albemarle - mapping cville
    • Join 81 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • mapping albemarle - mapping cville
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...