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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/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/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/HM18WJ_dixs-ferry_Danville-VA.html
John Dix established his ferry approximately three miles south of here on the Dan River. During the American Revolution, in February 1781, the ferry was a strategic site in Gen. Nathanael Greene's "race to the Dan," the pursuit of Greene to the Da…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18VS_danville-fortifications_Danville-VA.html
Danville residents, feeling vulnerable to enemy attack because of the vast amount of commissary and quartermaster supplies stored in their town and the presence of the Confederate arsenal, petitioned the town council in February 1863 to build fort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM172U_wreck-of-the-old-97_Danville-VA.html
Here, on September 27, 1908, occurred the railroad wreck that inspired the popular ballad, "The Wreck of the Old 97". The southbound mail express train on the Southern Railroad left the tracks on a trestle and plunged into the ravine below. Nine p…