Albemarle County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia.Its county seat is Charlottesville, which is an independent city and enclave entirely surrounded by the county. Albemarle County is part of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area.As of the 2020 census, the population was 112,395.. Albemarle County was created in 1744 from the …

The Charlottesville car attack was a white supremacist terrorist attack perpetrated on August 12, 2017, when James Alex Fields, Jr. deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people peacefully protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 35. 20-year-old Fields had previously espoused neo-Nazi and white supremacist beliefs, and drove …

The Robert E. Lee Monument was an outdoor bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveller located in Charlottesville, Virginia's Market Street Park (formerly Emancipation Park, and before that Lee Park) in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District.The statue was commissioned in 1917 and dedicated in …

The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes. The map in this article, taken from the official United States Census Bureau site, includes Clifton Forge and Bedford as independent cities. This reflected the political reality at the time of the 2000 Census.

The Virginia Tech Hokies are the athletic teams representing the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in intercollegiate athletics.The Hokies participate in the NCAA's Division I Atlantic Coast Conference in 22 varsity sports. Virginia Tech's men's sports are football, basketball, baseball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor …

Bedford is an incorporated town and former independent city located within Bedford County in the U.S. state of Virginia.It serves as the county seat of Bedford County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,657.It is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.. Known as the "place that sells itself," Bedford boasts the Blue Ridge Mountains to the north, Smith Mountain …

Leesburg is a town in the state of Virginia, and the county seat of Loudoun County.Settlement in the area began around 1740 [citation needed], which is named for the Lee family, early leaders of the town and ancestors of Robert E. Lee. Located in the far northeast of the state, in the War of 1812 it was a refuge for important federal documents evacuated from Washington, DC, and in …

Luray is the county seat of Page County, Virginia, United States, in the Shenandoah Valley in the northern part of the Commonwealth. The population was 4,895 at the 2010 census.. The town was started by William Staige Marye in 1812, a descendant of a family native to Luray, France. The mayor of the town is Jerry Dofflemyer.

Patrick County is a county located on the central southern border of the Commonwealth of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,608. Its county seat is Stuart. It is located within both the rolling hills and valleys of the Piedmont Region and the more mountainous Southwest Virginia

Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport (IATA: CHO, ICAO: KCHO, FAA LID: CHO) is eight miles north of Charlottesville, in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States.It opened in 1955 and serves the Charlottesville/Albemarle region with non-stop flights to six major cities on three airlines' subsidiaries. CHO underwent major construction in summer 2006; an 800-foot runway …