For subscribers
American Evolution 2024
White rage: Charlottesville and beyond
From conservative cores to cosmopolitan corridors, hollowed-out heartlands to cloud economies, follow US Bureau Chief Bhagyashree Garekar on a journey across the United States ahead of its presidential election in November.
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
A statue of former US president Thomas Jefferson, who founded and designed the University of Virginia in 1819.
ST PHOTO: BHAGYASHREE GAREKAR
Follow topic:
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia – Charming Charlottesville can seem like an afterthought, a town that grew up around the University of Virginia.
It rises up from the main street, not far from the campus that was founded and designed in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, one of America’s founding fathers. The campus, a Unesco World Heritage Site, features iconic red brick buildings with white columns arranged across a verdant lawn.
