Historical Walking Tour of Downtown Charlottesville
Charlottesville, Virginia
Trip Type: Historical & Heritage Tours
Duration: 75 minutes
Home to Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe--as well as Jefferson’s fabulous
University of Virginia--Charlottesville has been welcoming visitors from around
the world for well over 200 years. Our 90-minute downtown walking tour—running
from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.—features national leaders, the Revolutionary War,
African American & Civil War history, world-class statuary, neo-classical
architecture, and modern-day musical phenoms! Your portal to Charlottesville’s
amazing past is award-winning local historian Rick Britton, a much-sought-after
speaker and guide.
University of Virginia--Charlottesville has been welcoming visitors from around
the world for well over 200 years. Our 90-minute downtown walking tour—running
from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.—features national leaders, the Revolutionary War,
African American & Civil War history, world-class statuary, neo-classical
architecture, and modern-day musical phenoms! Your portal to Charlottesville’s
amazing past is award-winning local historian Rick Britton, a much-sought-after
speaker and guide.
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Home to Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe--as well as Jefferson’s fabulous
University of Virginia--Charlottesville has been welcoming visitors from around
the world for well over 200 years. Our 90-minute downtown walking tour—running
from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.—features national leaders, the Revolutionary War,
African American & Civil War history, world-class statuary, neo-classical
architecture, and modern-day musical phenoms! Your portal to Charlottesville’s
amazing past is award-winning local historian Rick Britton, a much-sought-after
speaker and guide. Follow your award-winning guide, which is a historian of the Old Dominion, Rick Britton who specializes in 18th- and 19th-century
Virginia history. You will see beautifully sculpted and controversial Civil War statues. Hear amazing stories about Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson and their connections with the Charlottesville area. Also Learn about the troubled period
when these world-class monuments were erected in court Square, Charlottesville’s oldest section of town. Court Square also features the Levy Opera House (where Gen. Tom Thumb once performed), two Civil War-era 12-pounder “Napolean” cannon, and the only courthouse in America frequented by three U.S. Presidents. Here you’ll learn about slavery in central Virginia, and the British raid that came within a hairsbreadth of capturing Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson!
A return walk along the famous Downtown Mall, where you’ll see the gorgeous Depression-era Paramount Theater; a neo-classical bank with imposing Corinthian columns; and Dr. Guy Miller’s drugstore where Dave Matthews—yes, that Dave Matthews—tended bar in the late 1980s.
University of Virginia--Charlottesville has been welcoming visitors from around
the world for well over 200 years. Our 90-minute downtown walking tour—running
from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.—features national leaders, the Revolutionary War,
African American & Civil War history, world-class statuary, neo-classical
architecture, and modern-day musical phenoms! Your portal to Charlottesville’s
amazing past is award-winning local historian Rick Britton, a much-sought-after
speaker and guide. Follow your award-winning guide, which is a historian of the Old Dominion, Rick Britton who specializes in 18th- and 19th-century
Virginia history. You will see beautifully sculpted and controversial Civil War statues. Hear amazing stories about Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson and their connections with the Charlottesville area. Also Learn about the troubled period
when these world-class monuments were erected in court Square, Charlottesville’s oldest section of town. Court Square also features the Levy Opera House (where Gen. Tom Thumb once performed), two Civil War-era 12-pounder “Napolean” cannon, and the only courthouse in America frequented by three U.S. Presidents. Here you’ll learn about slavery in central Virginia, and the British raid that came within a hairsbreadth of capturing Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson!
A return walk along the famous Downtown Mall, where you’ll see the gorgeous Depression-era Paramount Theater; a neo-classical bank with imposing Corinthian columns; and Dr. Guy Miller’s drugstore where Dave Matthews—yes, that Dave Matthews—tended bar in the late 1980s.
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