Ivy Creek Foundation

The Ivy Creek Foundation

with grant assistance from the project for
African American Heritage in Virginia
of
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

and

Brown College of UVa

present

The Life and Legacy of Hugh Carr & River View Farm

Charlottesville, Virginia

Take a self-guided walk along the Carr/Greer African American Heritage Trail at the Ivy Creek Natural Area.  We now have an interpretive brochure produced by the Ivy Creek Foundation which celebrates the remarkable history of Hugh Carr, the emancipated slave who, with his family, ran River View Farm a century ago.

Self-Guided Walking Brochure
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People Hugh Carr

Mary Louise Carr Greer

Conly Greer



Genealogy: Hugh Carr's Family
 
Places The Cemetery
  House

Barn

Agriculture at River View Farm

Old Spring

Greer Dump Site and 1998 Excavation

Hydraulic Mills

Albemarle Training School
 
Documents Land Acquisitions of Hugh Carr (transcribed)

 

1875 Work Agreement between J.R. Wingfield and Hugh Carr

 

1868 Work Agreement between A.A. Sutherland and Hugh Carr
   

Marriage licenses of Hugh Carr
 
Newspaper articles The Daily Progress, August 19, 1990: Hugh Carr and his family

 

The Daily Progress, December 1, 1991: The Great Flood of 1870

 

The Daily Progress, September 12, 1982: Nature Preserve is Ex-Slave's Legacy
   
Archaeological research at Ivy Creek Excavation of Greer trash dump, April 1998
   
Other online resources Links

The Ivy Creek Foundation / P.O. Box 956 / Charlottesville, VA 22902 / 434-973-7772 /  icf@ivycreekfoundation.org