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Elizabeth Kambourian has collected plats of the area to produce a picture of Bellevue ca. 1822. Elizabeth says:
This is three plats in one. I patched together 2 plats of Westbrook and one of Quincy, to show the whole neighborhood. If you wonder why the street names look funny for Nottoway, Claremont, Avondale and Greycourt, it is because when the neighborhood was laid out in 1904 they had to put a dog-leg in the streets, so they don't go straight across like the lines on the 1822 plat. I think they started the dog-leg at Claremont and Fauquier to avoid the slave graveyard, and had to carry it through on the rest of the streets. Fauquier is not on the 1822 plat, but is on Civil War maps, and was probably a cut-through. It nearly lines up with Crestwood, which is on the 1815 plat of Westbrook. Westbrook was in two parts, and that was the dividing line. Laburnum Ave. has been the front line of the Quincy farm from the beginning. It was the line between Obadiah Smith and Wm. Byrd in 1745 (give or take a few feet). MacArthur Ave is the center dividing line on the 4 sections shown on the 1822 Plat of Quincy. I think it was the access road to the main house, which was probably in or around the 1400 block of Avondale Ave.
We shrank the image to fit it on this page. If you would like to download the original (JPG, 222K), you can click here.
Elizabeth also sent along a photo from the Times-Dispatch showing children on Claremont (including her mother) in 1930.
