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Noteworthy Danvillians

Nancy Langhorne Astor

Charles Ballou, Engineer, Philanthropist

Algernon Sidney Buford, Lawyer, Railroad Man

John Wesley Carter

Monk Clark, Engineer of the Old ’97

H.W. Cole: Doctor, Druggist, Mayor

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius

Van Glidewell, an Old West End Beauty and Miss Virginia 1933

The Griggs Family of Green Street

Pleasant Richard Jones, Druggist

J. Bryant Heard, Architect

Archibald Dickenson Keen

John Greene Lea, Assassin

Dr. James Madison Shelburn, Pastor of the First Baptist Church (1921)

Julian R. Meade

Col. James Mastin Neal

Richard Warner Peatross

The Penn Family and their Many Danville Homes

John Foster Rison, Tobacconist, Railroad Man

George W. Talley

Johnny Westbrook, Naturalist, Musician, Humanitarian

Camilla Williams

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Recent Posts

  • Medicine Man, Part Nine: Running out of Time (North Carolina)
  • The Carter-Claud House, 870 Pine Street
  • Medicine Man, Part Eight: Georgia and Back to Danville
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  • Medicine Man, Part Six: A Life of (Un)Necessary Violence (in Danville and Elsewhere)
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