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Lead in paragraph now: Vinegar Hill was one of the earliest neighborhoods in Charlottesville, Virginia. Located near downtown, it was bordered by West Main Street to the south, Preston Avenue to the north, and 4th street to the east. When it was first populated by Irish families in the early nineteenth century, it was called "Random Row." It was incorporated into the city in 1835.

Added to article: Vinegar Hill is remembered now for its invasive urban renewal project begun in 1964 that razed the majority black neighborhood.

added to article: Most Vinegar Hill resident's lived without basic amenities like running water, plumbing, or electric. The city of Charlottesville's health council did not feel they had adequate power to enforce the standing city code that required each home to have these amenities in every home, including those in Vinegar Hill.

- Removing housing led to most of these people being stopped from voting. look into that and find legitimate source

- Figure out how to add virgo pictures because it has not yet let me

-https://www.cvillepedia.org/Jefferson_School – should the jefferson school be included? One of the only structures that remains since vinegar hill first stood

-More info to be added but this isn't a reputable enough source (and they don't source all of their info so have to dig to find out where it's from): In 1960 the CRHA submitted an application to city council calling for redevelopment of the Vinegar Hill area and construction of public housing for relocating its inhabitants. The CRHA’s goals included facilitating expansion of the downtown business district, improving traffic, and cutting off commercial flow from central to peripheral areas through revitalizing the Hill. These factors, combined with federal funding and a thinly veiled agenda of “slum cleansing” an area so close to reputable downtown businesses, ushered in the urban renewal project. By the mid-1960s Vinegar Hill was largely demolished, with twenty-nine businesses disrupted and over 600 people moved to public housing in Westhaven. http://afrovirginia.org/items/show/457

In a time when a poll tax kept many black residents from casting ballots, Charlottesville held a referendum and decided, by a margin of just 36 votes, to raze Vinegar Hill for redevelopment.

By a margin of 36 votes, the city of Charlottesville voted to raze Vinegar Hill in a referendum. This occurred in a time where the poll tax excluded many black residents from voting.

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