Research Resources – Old West End

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Lyon G. Tyler

History of Virginia by Phillip Alexander Bruce, Lyon G. Tyler, Richard L. Morton

Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4 (presently unavailable)
Volume 5 (presently unavailable
Volume 6

Men of Mark in Virginia, Lyon G. Tyler

Virginia: Rebirth of the Old Dominion; Phillip Alexander Bruce, Lyon G. Tyler, Richard L. Morton

Family History

Ancestry (fee)
Family Search
Find A Grave

Newspapers and Obituaries

Newspapers.com (fee)
Genealogy Bank (fee)

Compilation of Census, Directory, and Newspaper Stories for the Old West End

Danville & Pittsylvania County Memories: A Photographic History of the 1800’s through the 1930’s, Danville Register and Bee

Danville Revisited, Clara G. Fountain and Gary Grant

Danville, VA: Images of America, Todd McGregor Yeatts

Danville, VA: Postcard Histories, Clara Garrett Fountain

Danville, Virginia: And the Coming of the Modern South, Michael Swanson

Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia, James Fox

If Streets Could Talk, Lee Wayland

I Live in Virginia, Julian R. Meade

River City: Stories of Danville, Adrian O’Connor

Southside Revisited: More Stories, Adrian O’Connor

Victorian Danville: Fifty-Two Landmarks, Their Architecture & History, b Mary Cahill and Gary Grant

Wicked Danville: Liquor and Lawlessness in a Southside Virginia City, Frankie Y. Bailey and Alice P. Green