Online Exhibit: Deep Roots and High Stakes Exhibit
Description:
A Short History of Wine and Winemaking in Albemarle County and Charlottesville.
Sponsors and Bibliography:
By Arthur and Gayle Schulman, Ellie Montague, and Jane Myers for an exhibit at the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society in 2004.
Exhibit Displays:
01. Beginnings
02. Thomas Jefferson and Filippo Mazzei
03. Antebellum Scientific Viticulturist: John Patten Emmet
04. William Hotopp and William Ward Minor: Post-Civil War Pioneers of the Grape
05. Other Early Local Advocates of Modern Viticulture
06. “The Savior of the Virginia Fruit Industry”
07. Adolph Russow and the Monticello Wine Company
08. Saloons, Local Option, and the Coming of Prohibition
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