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3 unusual facts about Albemarle County


Carter, West Virginia

Carter was named for a prominent family of Baptist preachers originally from Albemarle County, Virginia that settled in Sago, West Virginia in the 1840s.

Princequillo

Retired after his four-year-old racing season, Princequillo was purchased by Arthur B. Hancock and sent to the Hancock family's Ellerslie Stud in Albemarle County, Virginia and later to their Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky.

Robert R. Prentis

When just a very young man, he worked for a short time in the clerk’s office in Albemarle County, Virginia and from there entered the University of Virginia in 1875.


James W. Flanagan

James was born to Charles and Elizabeth (Saunders) Flanagan in Albemarle County near Gordonsville, Virginia.

John W. Fishburne

Fishburne was a Representative from Virginia; born near Albemarle County, Charlottesville, Virginia on March 8, 1868; attended Pantops Academy, near Charlottesville, Va., and Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

Steve Landes

He has served in the Virginia House of Delegates since 1996, representing the 25th district in the Blue Ridge Mountains, including parts of Albemarle, Augusta and Rockingham Counties.

Walter Leake

A native Virginian, he was born in 1762 in Albemarle County, Virginia, the son of Captain Mask Leake and nephew of Rev. Samuel Leake (Princeton University graduate and a member of the first Board of Trustees of Hampden-Sydney College), an ancestor of Senator John McCain of Arizona.


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Madison Hemings

As the historians Philip D. Morgan and Joshua D. Rothman have written, there were numerous interracial relationships in the Wayles-Hemings-Jefferson families, Albemarle County and Virginia, often with multiple generations repeating the pattern.