This is “Midway” in Charlottesville, late winter, 1917. Today, this is the location where Ridge-McIntire Road meets West Main Street at the Lewis and Clark Monument. That monument would be erected in the island park
This is “Midway” in Charlottesville, late winter, 1917. Today, this is the location where Ridge-McIntire Road meets West Main Street at the Lewis and Clark Monument. That monument would be erected in the island park seen here just two years later. It was one of several to be donated to the city by Paul Goodloe McIntire.
There is much worth taking a closer look at in the above photograph. Most prominent is the Midway School, which served as a public school from the late 19t