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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z0R_north-danville_Danville-VA.html
North Danville was established in 1877 as a distinct town across the Dan River from Danville proper. Its first mayor, John T. Keen, was appointed on July 13, 1880. For a brief period in the 1890s, the town went by the name Neapoils before being an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z0Q_rockabilly-pioneer-janis-martin_Danville-VA.html
Born in Sutherlin, Rockabilly pioneer Janis
Martin combined country influences with rhythm-and-blues singing, crossing musical boundaries
and helping launch Rock and Roll. Singing and
playing guitar, she won numerous talent contests
before she…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YZN_frederick-delius_Danville-VA.html
One block west on Church Street is the site of the Henry P. Richardson house where Frederick Delius lived while teaching music at Roanoke Female Collect, now Averett. An unsuccessful orange grower in Florida, the Britisher Delius worked in Danvill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YZ9_high-street-baptist-church_Danville-VA.html
In 1865 emancipated African Americans withdrew
from First Baptist Church, where they had
worshiped from the balcony, and founded a
congregation later known as High Street Baptist
Church. Members erected their first sanctuary
here in 1873. Fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1928_archer-t-gammon_Danville-VA.html
This bridge is dedicated in memory of Archer T. Gammon who distinguished himself on January 11, 1945, in the infamous Battle of the Bulge. While pinned down by enemy gunfire, he advanced and caused enemy resistance to weaken, allowing his platoon …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18XH_danville-confederate-soldiers-monument_Danville-VA.html
Danville, Virginia1878
Gen. Robert E. LeeConfederate dead memorial tribute of Virginia's daughters to the fallen brave.
Gen. Thomas J. JacksonThey died as men who nobly contend for the cause of truth and right. "They softly and sweetly sleep…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18X5_berry-hill_Danville-VA.html
Berry Hill is situated 5? miles to the south on the Dan River. The original portion of the main house was built in 1745 and there have been several additions. The property was used as a hospital for General Nathanael Greene's army during the sprin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18X3_saponi-religious-beliefs-explained_Danville-VA.html
On 12-15 October 1728, Col. William Byrd II and his party camped just west of here while surveying the Virginia-North Carolina boundary. Bearskin, Byrd's Saponi guide, described his tribe's religious beliefs, which, wrote Byrd in his diary, contai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18X2_schoolfield_Danville-VA.html
Schoolfield, established in 1903 as a textile mill village, was named for three brothers who founded Riverside Cotton Mills, later Dan River Mills. By the 1920s, this company town—complete with a school, churches, stores, a theatre, and othe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18X1_frederick-delius_Danville-VA.html
In this building, on January 30, 1897, the composer Frederick Delius (1862-1934) and his traveling companions - Halfdan Jebe and the "stowaway" Princess de Cysteria - gave a public concert at the Danville College for Young Ladies, later Stratford …