Danville, Virginia Danville, Virginia Official seal of Danville, Virginia Nickname(s): River City, Motto: The River City, Where Innovation Flows Danville is positioned in Virginia Danville - Danville County None (Independent city) Danville is an autonomous town/city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
As of the 2010 census, the populace was 43,055. It is bounded by Pittsylvania County, Virginia and Caswell County, North Carolina.
It hosts the Danville Braves baseball club of the Appalachian League.
Danville is the principal town/city of the Danville, Virginia Micropolitan Statistical Area.
View of the Dan River in downtown Danville In 1728, English colonist William Byrd headed an expedition sent to determine the true boundary between Virginia and North Carolina.
One evening late that summer, the party camped upstream from what is now Danville, Byrd was so taken with the beauty of the land, that he prophesied a future settlement in the vicinity, where citizens would live "with much comfort and gaiety of Heart." In 1793, the General Assembly authorized assembly of a tobacco warehouse at Wynne's Falls, marking the start of the town as "The World's Best Tobacco Market", Virginia's biggest market for "bright leaf" tobacco.
The village was retitled "Danville" by an act of November 23, 1793.
Abandoned Dan River Mills on the Dan River Several barns s reached Danville including the Richmond and Danville Railroad (completed 1856), the Atlantic and Danville Railway (completed 1890), enabling the export of Danville's manufacturing and agricultural products.
On July 22, 1882, six of Danville's people established the Riverside Cotton Mills.
On September 9, 1882, Danville mayor John H.
A serious train wreck occurred in Danville.
58 between Locust Lane and North Main Street.
A mural of the Wreck of the Old 97 has been painted on a downtown Danville building in memory of the incident.
On March 2, 1911, Danville Police Chief R.
The revamping of the tobacco, textile, and barns industries all had an adverse effect here, resulting in the loss of many jobs in Danville.
The losses have made it difficult to preserve the city's many architecturally and historically momentous properties dating from its more prosperous years.
Kostelny reported at a press conference held in Danville at Main Street Methodist Church that the entire town/city of Danville had been titled one of the Most Endangered Historic Sites in Virginia.
Danville home of tobacco entrepreneur William T.
Broadside by Jefferson Davis announcing move of Confederate capitol to Danville, 4 April 1865 Broadside advertisement for tobacco warehouse, Danville, 1874 At the outbreak of the Civil War, Danville had a populace of some 5,000 citizens .
Their remains have been interred in the Danville National Cemetery.
The Richmond and Danville Railroad was the chief supply route into Petersburg, where Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was holding the defensive line to protect Richmond.
The Danville supply train ran until General Stoneman's Union cavalry troops tore up the tracks.
Danville became the last command posts of the Confederate States of America over the space of a several days.
The final Confederate Cabinet meeting was held at the Benedict House (later destroyed) in Danville.
Davis and members of his cabinet left Danville when they learned of Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and moved to Greensboro, North Carolina.
Main article: Bloody Monday (Danville) Heightened activism in the Civil Rights Movement in Virginia occurred in Danville amid the summer of 1963.
Since the early 20th century, most blacks were excluded from voting by elements of the state constitution, despite their federal constitutional rights; legal ethnic segregation had been imposed when white Democrats regained control of the state council following the Reconstruction Era, and Jim Crow laws also supported white supremacy.
On May 31, delegates of the black improve ordered as the Danville Christian Progressive Association (DCPA), demanding an end to segregation and job discrimination in the city.
Came to Danville and spoke at High Street Baptist Church about the brutality of the law enforcement.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent organizers to Danville to support the DCPA.
By the end of August, over 600 protesters had been arrested in Danville on charges of inciting to violence, contempt, trespassing, disorderly conduct, assault, parading without a permit, and resisting arrest.
The demonstrations floundered to achieve desegregation in Danville; town facilities remained segregated until passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and black residents were not able to vote until the federal government enforced their constitutional rights under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Danville is positioned along the southern border of Virginia, 70 miles (110 km) south of Lynchburg and 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Greensboro, North Carolina, via U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 43.9 square miles (113.7 km2), of which 43.1 square miles (111.6 km2) is territory and 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2) (2.3%) is water. Climate data for Danville, Virginia (Danville Regional Airport), 1981 2010 normals Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 0.9 0.5 0.1 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.3 1.9 As of the census of 2010, Danville had a populace of 43,055.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was White Non-Hispanic 46.7%, African American 48.3%, Hispanic 2.9%, Asian 0.9%, American Indian or Alaska Native 0.2%, and two or more competitions 1.3%.
There were 59 registered sex offenders residing in Danville in early 2007. Danville Regional Medical Center Essel Propack opened its U.S subsidiary in Danville in 2002.
Prior to the recession of 2008, the City of Danville and its partners began a primary universal concentrated on the revitalization of the Historic Downtown and Tobacco Warehouse districts, now coined "The River District." See Danville River District.
The entire region of "Penn's Bottom", the nickname for the part of Main Street that was advanced as the first suburb of Danville amid the tobacco boom of the late 19th century, has been designated as a historic district.
The historic districts include The Old West End, Tobacco Warehouse, Downtown Danville, Holbrook-Ross Street, and North Main; these are benefitting by early 21st century investment and renovation.
Also positioned in this precinct is the "Sutherlin Mansion", now used as the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History.
Dan's Hill estate, far Danville Danville is known as "the town/city of churches" because it has more churches per square mile than any other town/city in the state of Virginia. Danville Mall, formerly Piedmont Mall, opened in 1984.
The City of Danville has a council-manager government in which a town/city manager is hired by council to supervise the town/city government and ensure that the ordinances and policies made by the town/city council are carried out in an effective manner. The town/city council comprises of nine members voted for by the inhabitants of Danville.
The town/city council selects the mayor and vice mayor from among its members to serve two-year terms. The town/city council has the power "to adopt and enforce legislative and budgetary ordinances, policies, and rules and regulations necessary to conduct the public's company and to furnish for the protection of the general health, safety and welfare of the public." The members of the Danville City Council are: Danville Community College Danville Register & Bee Danville was once the home of WDRL-TV 24, a station that was an partner of the WB and United Paramount Network before changing ownership from 2007 to 2014.
Danville Amtrak station Amtrak's Crescent train joins Danville with the metros/cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans.
Route 58 (Riverside Dr/River St) alongsides the north bank of the Dan River traveling east west through Danville's chief commercial precinct while the US 58 Bypass route bypasses the city's center to the south via the Danville Expressway.
Route 29 splits into a company route and a bypass at the North Carolina/Virginia border.
The company route enters the heart of Danville via West Main Street and Memorial Drive and exits via Central Boulevard and Piney Forest Road; US 29 Business travels mostly north south.
The bypass (future Interstate 785) takes the easterly segment of the Danville Expressway and rejoins the company route north of the town/city near Chatham, Virginia.
Route 360, which joins Danville with Richmond, enters the town/city from the east concurrent with U.S.
Route 58 Business at the Danville Expressway interchange, and terminating at the North Main Street intersection just north of downtown.
Route 311 in 2013 was period from North Carolina to terminate just outside Danville's limits at U.S.
North Carolina Highway 86 becomes State Route 86 once it crosses the state line into Danville as South Main Street.
State Route 293 was created in 1998 to mark the route of old US 29 Business, which was rerouted to the west.
SR 293 enters Danville's downtown historic precinct as West Main Street, then Main Street, and then crosses the Dan River to meet US 29 Business as North Main Street.
State Route 51 alongsides US 58 Business as Westover Drive from its end at US 58 Business at the Danville's city-limits to its easterly end at US 58 Business near the Dan River.
Samuel Bason, Yanceyville, North Carolina, banker and businessman and member of the North Carolina State Senate, 1948-1956; spent his last years at a convalescent home in Danville Blind Boy Fuller, blues guitarist and vocalist, street performer in Danville Sutherlin, planter, industrialist and politician; the first to apply steam power to tobacco hydraulics press, founder and president of Bank of Danville, hosted President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet for last week of the Confederacy government Camilla Ella Williams, opera singer, first African American contracted to sing with New York City Opera National Register of Historic Places listings in Danville, Virginia United States Enumeration Bureau.
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