Shadwell
Shadwell is a census-designated place in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. It is located by the Rivanna River near Charlottesville. It was the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson, the central intellectual force behind the American Revolution, author of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: birthplace of Thomas Jefferson
- Also known as: “North Milton”, “Shadwell Station”, and “Shadwell, Virginia”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Milton and Rivanna.
Milton
Hamlet
Photo: Packer1028, CC0.
Milton is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. In the batteaux era Milton was the head of navigation along the river, but by the mid-nineteenth century horse-drawn canal boats were traveling all the way upstream to Charlottesville, where the head of navigation was located at the very point where the Fredericksburg Road and Three Chopt Road.
Rivanna
Village
Rivanna is a census-designated place in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States, just east of Shadwell. The population as of the 2010 Census was 1,860. It consists mainly of the Glenmore gated community.
Everettsville
Locality
Everettsville is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. It was named for Dr. Charles Everett, who in 1821 bought the 400-acre tract called Pouncey's of the Shadwell tract from Thomas Jefferson.
Shadwell
- Categories: plantation and locality
- Location: Albemarle, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.01292° or 38° 0′ 47″ northLongitude
-78.39557° or 78° 23′ 44″ westElevation
361 feet (110 metres)Open location code
87C32J73+5QOpenStreetMap ID
node 158286200OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Tajik—“Shadwell” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Шадўэл”
- Bulgarian: “Шадуел”
- Catalan: “Shadwell”
- Chinese: “沙德維爾 (弗吉尼亞州)”
- Chinese: “沙德韋爾”
- Chinese: “沙德韦尔”
- Czech: “Shadwell”
- French: “Shadwell”
- Hebrew: “שארלוטסוויל, וירג’יניה”
- Interlingua: “Shadwell”
- Irish: “Shadwell”
- Italian: “Shadwell”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shadwell”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shadwell”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shadwell”
- Ossetian: “Шэдуэлл”
- Persian: “شدول، ویرجینیا”
- Persian: “شدول”
- Portuguese: “Shadwell (Virgínia)”
- Portuguese: “Shadwell”
- Slovak: “Shadwell”
- Slovenian: “Shadwell”
- Spanish: “Shadwell”
- Swedish: “Shadwell, Virginia”
- Swedish: “Shadwell”
- Tajik: “Шадвелл”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shadwell”. Photo: Sabonarola, CC BY 3.0.