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Historical Highway MarkersMonticello Wine CompanyQ-31
The Monticello Wine Company's four-story brick building was located on the middle of Perry Drive on the north side. Founded in 1873 using grapes from local vineyards, it operated until about the time Prohibition began in Virginia in Nov. 1916. Spurred by production increases and highest-awards honors from exhibitions in the United States and abroad, the Charlottesville region proclaimed itself the "Capital of the Wine Belt in Virginia." In 1904 its wine was used to christen the USS Virginia. The building was last used as a storage facility until fire destroyed it in 1937. The home of the winery's general manager, Adolph Russow, stands nearby at 212 Wine Street.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Sources Consulted:Albemarle County Deed Book No. 101, page 106; Leon David Adams, The Wines of America (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985), 18, 64-70; “Battleship Virginia Successfully Launched Amidst Patriotic Plaudits of Thousands,” Virginian Pilot 5 April 1904; John J. Baxevanis, The Wine Regions of North America Geographical Reflections and Appraisals (Stroudsburg, Pa.: Vinifera Wine Growers Journal, 1992), 154-161; Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr., “Of Vines and Wines: The Culture of Grape in Virginia,” Virginia Cavalcade, 39(Winter 1990): 106-117; Bernard P. Chamberlain, “Virginia Grapes for Wine-Making,” Commonwealth 1(July 1934): 13, 26; Charlottesville City Deed Book, No. 30, page 227 and No. 31, page 79; The Daily Progress (Charlottesville): articles dating 1897-1937; K. Edward Lay, Architecture of Jefferson Country (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000), 129, 244; S.W. Fletcher, “A History of Fruit Growing in Virginia,” (Reprinted from the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Horticultural Society, December 6, 7, and 8, 1932), 8-11, 24-26; Edward W. Hase, II and Robert M. Hubbard, “Adolph Russow and the Monticello Wine Company,” The Magazine of Albemarle County History 46(1988): 17-27; Hilde Gabriel Lee and Allan E. Lee, Virginia Wine Country (White Hall, Va.: Betterway Publications, 1987), 22-26, 53-54, 64-66; John Hammond Moore, Albemarle: Jefferson’s County 1727-1976 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976), 249-250, 297, 346; Lucie T. Morton, Winegrowing in Eastern America: An Illustrated Guide to Viniculture East of the Rockies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), 111-112; Charles Pearson, Liquor and Anti-Liquor in Virginia, 1919-1919 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1967), 179, 288-291; Thomas Pinney, A History of Wine in America: From the Beginnings to Prohibition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), 55-82, 413-415 ; Oscar Reierson, “The Wine-Making Industry” in W.H. Seamon, ed., Albemarle County (Virginia) A Handbook…(Charlottesville: Jeffersonian Book and Print House, 1888), 59-62; Report Upon Statistics of Grape Culture and Wine Production in U.S. for 1880 [microfilm] (Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., 1881), 35-36, 102-104; 212 Wine ST, Charlottesville information, K. Edward Lay, The Architecture of Jefferson Country (CD ROM). |