Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Fix the Scite of the University of Virginia.
This is the title page of the fourteen-page report that recommended the selection of Albemarle County as the site for the collegiate institution proposed by Thomas Jefferson. Twenty-four commissioners met at Rockfish Gap in 1818 to choose the location of the future University of Virginia.
Citation: Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Fix the Scite of the University of Virginia. LD5660 1818. Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA