Research
We're excited you're considering helping with the Mapping Albemarle Project. It really is a group effort, there's no way we could possibly go through more than 300,000 property records on our own. In this particular portion of the project, we're entering the information contained within racially restricted property records.
Once you help enter this information, we can then begin to track each property that we are mapping, helping us to make connections between different datasets that, until now, have never communicated with each other. The result will be a comprehensive understanding of how racial segregation was created, enforced, and maintained, as well as the resulting legacies that continue today in both Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
This will be included in an exhibition at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center (233 4th St, NW), as well as in our area school curricula, and as a guide for local policy decisions.
For more information and continuous updates, please check out our blog.