This week in 1900... If you live in Charlottesville, you've probably heard his name... Venable Elementary School and the Venable neighborhood. The man was Charles Scott Venable. And when he died, he was so revered among white Virginians that his obituary was published on the front page of both the Charlottesville Daily Progress and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. That's because he played a key role in constructing the Lost Cause Myth in the years after the Civil War.