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May 30, 1979 (4 miles (6.4 km) west of downtown Danville: 3: Danville Historic District: Danville Historic District: April 11, 1973 (Roughly bounded by Main, Green, and Paxton Sts., and Memorial Hospital; also Jefferson Ave., Chestnut Pl., Grove, Chambers, and the 100 blocks of Ross and Holbrook Sts.
Danville National Cemetery was established by the federal government on August 14, 1867 on a plot of 2.6 acres (1.1 ha). This was part of the process to recognize and commemorate the military dead. Almost all of the original interments were Union prisoners-of-war who had been held in the city of Danville.
WMDV-LD, an independent television station owned by the Martinsville, VA-based Star News Corporation; Danville was once the home of WDRL-TV 24, a station that was an affiliate of the WB and United Paramount Network before changing ownership from 2007 to 2014. Today, it is known as WZBJ, a sister channel of WDBJ and is owned by Gray Television. [91]
The Danville Historic District, also known as the Millionaire's Row and Old West End Historic District, is a national historic district located at Danville, Virginia. In 1973, the 110-acre (45 ha) district included 272 contributing buildings. They are considered the finest and most concentrated collection of Victorian and Edwardian residential ...
The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the independent city of Danville, Virginia. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
February 26, 1970 (General Washington Dr. Dale City: Historic plantation manor house built c. 1740 by Charles Ewell. It was the home of Mason Locke Weems (1759 – 1825), the first biographer of George Washington and the creator of the George Washington cherry tree story ("I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet").
Langhorne House, also known as the Gwynn Apartments, is an historic late 19th-century house in Danville, Virginia later enlarged and used as an apartment house. Its period of significance is 1922, when Nancy Langhorne Astor, by then known as Lady Astor and the first woman to sit in the British Parliament, came to Danville to visit her birthplace and promote Anglo-American relations.
Danville National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Danville, in Vermilion County, Illinois. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 63.3 acres (25.6 ha), and as of 2014, it had 12,000 interments.