Virginia,

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 493

Virginia, UNIVERSITY OF, at Charlottesville, Albemarle county, Virginia, 4 miles from Monticello, the seat of Jefferson, by whom it was planned and organised. It was chartered by the state in 1819, opened in 1825, and has over 300 students and a library of 40,000 vols.

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