Jackson Park

By the early nineteenth century, the west side of Court Square was occupied by a row of buildings stretching between Jefferson and High Streets, known as the McKee Block. Among the businesses housed there were merchants selling dry goods and groceries, a hatter, a tailor, a printer, and a hotel. By the early twentieth century these buildings were is disrepair, and local civic benefactor Paul Goodloe McIntire purchased the land, razed the buildings, and on January 29, 1919 gave the site to the City of Charlottesville as a public park. McIntire commissioned a statue of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson to stand in the center of the park. This statue, by sculptor Charles Keck, was presented to the City on October 19, 1921, and is considered by some to be one of the three finest equestrian statues in the world.

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