Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill
“I don’t know what could have been done better, but it should’ve been done better.”
Kent Merritt
“It was just nothing there where Vinegar Hill had been.”
Kent Merritt
“There was just kind of a sadness.”
“I don’t know what could have been done better, but it should’ve been done better.”
“It was just nothing there where Vinegar Hill had been.”
“There was just kind of a sadness.”
Vinegar Hill (originally known as Random Row) was a historically black neighborhood that was razed in 1964 as part of a Charlottesville-led redevelopment program. The neighborhood extended along Main Street from the eastern end of today's Downtown Mall.