Charlottesville Neighborhood - Fifeville
by: admin on 2007-01-29 @ 2.19:58 pm
I live near the intersection of 5th St. SW and Dice. There is some question as to what my neighborhood should be called. One realtor tried to market the area north and south of West Main Street as “midtown,” though it hasn’t really caught on. The city calls the area south of West Main “Fifeville” after the Fife family, who once owned a farm in this area. However, Oak Street resident and self described “old-house-hugging preservationist” Antoinette Roades notes that a portion of what the city calls Fifeville (the part bordered by Ridge Street to the east, Cherry Avenue to the south, 5th St. SW to the west, and West Main Street to the north) was not part of Fife’s farm, but was developed separately in the 1840s and 1850s by Allen Hawkins. An ongoing survey of the architectural history of the neighborhood found that the Hawkins land was once known as “Castle Hill.” I like that name, and it describes the area of “Fifeville” I know best, so I’ll write about Castle Hill and the neighboring blocks. People also refer to the same area as “5th Street” or “5th and Dice.” According to a UVA oral history of the area, Castle Hill was home to prominent African Americans and whites at the turn of the 20th century, until, in 1912, the city resolved that it should be illegal for whites and blacks to live next to each other and “the whites moved away.” Read the whole story at Real Central VA. 
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