Woolen Mills Village Historic District

East of downtown Charlottesville, the Woolen Mills Village Historic District preserves what a working mill neighborhood actually looked like — worker housing still occupied, brick mill buildings still standing along the streets where the people who ran the looms once lived. The factory burned during the Civil War and was rebuilt; it ran until 1962. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. The chapel built in 1887 for mill workers still holds services. Come to walk streets that read as what they were.