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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18WV_holbrook-ross-historic-district_Danville-VA.html
The Holbrook-Ross Historic District, named for two major streets, is significant as the first neighborhood in Danville for African American professionals. Lawyers, ministers, dentists and physicians, as well as, business owners, insurance agents, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18WT_750-main-street_Danville-VA.html
On this site stood the residence of James E. Schoolfield. In the parlor of his house were held the meetings to organize both Dan River, Inc. on July 20, 1882 and the Young Women's Christian Association of Danville on December 19, 1904.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18WS_the-worsham-street-bridge_Danville-VA.html
The Worsham Street Bridge was built in 1928 by the Atlantic Bridge Company of Greensboro, North Carolina. Replacing a smaller iron-and-wood bridge from the early 1900s, it was an open-spandrel reinforced concrete arch bridge and one of the longest…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18WQ_welcome-to-kyburz-flat_Danville-CA.html
There are three interpretive sites here at Kyburz Flat. Take a moment to understand the people who lived here, how each used the environment in different ways, and the unique marks each left on the landscape.
Visiting all three sites should tak…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18WP_bloody-monday_Danville-VA.html
In the spring of 1963 local African American ministers and other leaders organized the Danville Movement to combat widespread racial segregation and discrimination. On 10 June, two demonstrations occurred. Police clubbed and fire-hosed the marcher…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18WO_danville-system_Danville-VA.html
On this site stood Neal's Warehouse where the "Danville System" of selling tobacco began in 1858. Previously tobacco had been sold by sample from hogsheads, but under the new system it was sold at auction in open, loose piles so buyers could exami…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18WN_loyal-baptist-church_Danville-VA.html
The Loyal Street Baptist Church congregation, which was organized between 1865 and 1866 on Old Hospital-Dance Hill by former slaves, built its church here in 1870. Worship continued at this site until 1924 when the congregation moved to Holbrook S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18WL_danville-tobacco-warehouse-and-residential-district_Danville-VA.html
This area formed the economic core of 19th-century Danville. Founded in 1793 at Wynne's Falls on the Dan River to facilitate tobacco inspection, Danville became a regional center of activity because of the river and later the railroad. Situated in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18W0_last-confederate-capitol_Danville-VA.html
This, the former home of Major W.T. Sutherlin, is regarded as the last capitol of the Confederacy, April 3-10, 1865. Here President Davis stayed and here was held the last full cabinet meeting, Breckinridge alone being absent. The establishment of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18VZ_sutherlin-mansion_Danville-VA.html
This Italian villa mansion was the home of Maj. William T. Sutherlin, wartime quartermaster for Danville and one of its most prominent citizens. For one week, April 3-10, 1865, Sutherlin and his wife opened their home to Jefferson Davis and the Co…