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The City's Recreation
and Leisure Services Division is in charge of
sports activities, City swimming pools, shelter rentals, playground
activities,
the City Market, and much more. |
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The County of Albemarle's Parks
and Recreation Department maintains 9 county parks. |
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The mission of the Virginia
Recreation and Park Society is to unite all professionals,
students,
and interested lay persons engaged in the field of recreation, parks,
and
other leisure services in the Commonwealth of Virginia. VRPS presented
its 2002 Best Promotional Effort for Electronic Media (population
25,001-50,000)
Award
to the official Charlottesville Parks and Grounds Division web site. |
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The Albemarle
Charlottesville Historical Society provides
local
historical information in the form of exhibits, a library,
presentations
to the community and Spirit Walks of Downtown Charlottesville. |
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The
Carter G. Woodson
Institute at the University of Virginia
provides
African-American study programs, publications, historical information
and
related resources. The Institute assisted in historical research
of Washington Park. |
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The Charlottesville
Garden Club offers opportunities to exchange gardening knowledge
and
supports the volunteer and donor
programs
for the City parks. |
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The Piedmont
Master Gardeners are volunteers who have received specialized
Virginia
Tech horticultural training and who continue their volunteerism every
year
with their gardening skills. |
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Monticello
Avenue
Virtual Village hosts web sites for many Charlottesville area
non-profit
foundations, schools, museums and community organizations.
Numerous
historical links of local interest can be found in the History
portion of their site. |
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The Virginia
Civil War Trails project provides information on Civil War facts
and
locations. Several locations in and around Charlottesville,
including
Lee
Park and Jackson Park,
are among them. |
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The UVA
Library Special Collections Department has
numerous
rare and historical documents and images, including the famous
collection
of historical photographs of Charlottesville taken by Rufus
Holsinger. |
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The Rivanna
Trails Foundation is a non-profit volunteer
organization
which builds and maintains footpaths to encircle Charlottesville,
passing
through many City parks along the way. |
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The National
Register of Historic Places, part of the
National
Park Services of the United States Department of the Interior, is the
Nation's
official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation.
Several
locations in the Charlottesville area, including the statues of Lee
and Jackson, are
registered
here. |
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The Charlottesville
Downtown Foundation promotes the City's Downtown area through
quality
special events and activities, including the Fridays
After Five™ and the Annual
Dogwood Blues Festival concert series. |
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The
Charlottesville/Albemarle Convention & Visitors Bureau provides
information on what to do, where to stay and how to get there in
Central
Virginia. |
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The Rivanna Conservation
Society aims to protect the largely unspoiled beauty of the Rivanna
River and to maintain a healthy ecosystem throughout the river's
watershed. |
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The Shenandoah
National Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains
offers
more than 500 miles of trails, including 101 miles of the Appalachian
Trail. |
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The Virginia
Department of Conservation and Recreation State Park Index lists
both
State parks and Natural Areas in the Commonwealth. |
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