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101 East Market Street, Charlottesville, VAMap
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  • efg434
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    Living History

    This is no longer Emancipation Park. This is now called Market Street Park. The location is historical for two reasons. First, it was the site where in the 1920s, some six decades after the end of the...

    Reviewed on Jan 7, 2023
  • pawlover
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    Homeless

    We looked up some parks to visit and chose this one based on the pictures for shading while walking and a good sidewalk. When we got to the park there were a ton of homeless people laying around the p...

    Reviewed on Sep 10, 2019
  • dlgold
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    Lee Park, Emmancipation Park, Market Street Park

    The names are as conflicted as the history. Saw the park refered to as all three on maps. As a small town square type of park it was clean (perhaps because it is not frequented in the Winter) and pl...

    Reviewed on Feb 28, 2019
  • ORockG
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    Not Called Emancipation Anymore

    This park was established as a whites only park decades after the Confederate States of America lost the Civil War. They put a gaudy statue in the middle of it of a slave owning traitor in the middle ...

    Reviewed on Sep 9, 2018
  • Sharon C
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    Piece of history

    Knowing the history of this location and awareness of the riots of 2017 made this a very sobering visit.

    Reviewed on Jun 30, 2018
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