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Albemarle County

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Albemarle County

County in north-central Virginia, USA; area 1,878 sq km/725 sq mi; population (1990) 68,000. Its administrative headquarters is Charlottesville. The region is mountainous and semirural, with the Blue Ridge Mountains lying to the west. Charlottesville, an educational, financial, and industrial centre, is among the most expensive residential areas in Virginia. The county is rich in historic associations, particularly with Thomas Jefferson, whose home, Monticello, is southeast of Charlottesville.



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That man is census taker Nathan Langdon, Harvard graduate and lawyer, enchanted by the prospects of meeting Thomas Jefferson's slave mistress, "famous in Albemarle County for as long as he could remember," although "few had actually seen her" (4).
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Kluge gave his Albemarle County estate to the foundation in May on the condition that the university use the so-called ``core property'' of Morven Farm's 749 acres for academic purposes.
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, and a middle school principal in Albemarle County, Va.
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