We want to share some of the history of our wonderful yellow house at 123 4th Street NW in Historic Vinegar Hill. Big thanks to Jefferson School African American Heritage Center and Jordy Yager for researching and writing about Dr. George F. Johnson and Peachie Carr Johnson as part of the Mapping Cville Project.

“In 1917, George F. Johnson was six years out of Howard University’s medical school. Three years earlier, the Orange County native had married Peachie Suporah Carr, a native of Albemarle County, who had recently graduated from the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute (Virginia State University). 

Together they lived in the heart of Vinegar Hill at 123 4th Street NW, where Dr. Johnson saw patients as one of Charlottesville’s well-known Black doctors. Mrs. Johnson walked across the street to the Jefferson School, where she taught generations of African American children until retiring in 1958.

Dr. George F. Johnson and Peachie C. Johnson continued to live around the corner on 4th Street NW and serve as integral members of the community—Peachie Johnson was a member of the Colored Women’s Clubs, the Order of the Eastern Star, the Frederick Douglas Memorial and Historical Association, and for many years served as president of the Virginia State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, a large mutual-aid organization founded by Janie Porter Barrett.”

- Jordy Yager, Mapping Cville Project, Jefferson School. African American Heritage Center