When people stroll down Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall today, pausing at a café, catching a show at the Paramount, or listening to music on the Pavilion lawn, it is easy to take this vibrant pedestrian corridor for granted.
But this space, which has become the city’s beating heart, exists because of the courage and vision of leaders who believed downtown could be more than just another road filled with traffic. One of the most important of those leaders was Charles H. Barbour.
Who Was Charles Barbour?…