Danville To Sea Market Route And Canal Legacy
The piece chronicles early Virginia and North Carolina canal schemes from Danville to Norfolk, led by the Roanoke Navigation Company and linked rail efforts. It notes 19th century navigation attempts, construction of locks and aqueducts, the rise of towns like Danville Gaston Weldon’s Landing, and eventual railroad dominance culminating in the 1877 flood and dissolution of the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
W. Marion Saunders
Yorktown
North America
Europe
Asia
Thar
Virginia
George Carrington
Jahn B. Scott
Richard Venable
Henry E. Coleman
Clement Carrington
North Carolina
Roanoke River
Pigg River
Washington Iron Works
Franklin County
Swinfield Hill
Benjamin Cook
Josiah Woods
Samuel Duval
James Calloway
Staunton River
Booker’s Ferry
Philip Payne
William Ward
David Hunt
Charles Calloway
John Ward
Bryan W. Nowling
William Witcher
John Law
Pigg
Staunton
Banister
Dan
Smith
Halifax
N.C
Roanoke Navigation Company
Peter Brown
Thomas B. Hill
David Clark
Cadwallader Jones
Thomas Burges
Robert Johnson
State of
Roanoke
Appomattox
Nelson
Rock Landing
Weldon’s Landing
Brazil
Chockoyette Creek
Weldon’s Orchard and Landing
Norfolk
Whitmell P. Tunstall
Tunstall
Senate
Richmond and
R&d
Raleigh and Gaston Railroad
Point of Rocks
Gaston
Northampton County
Petersboro
Greensville County
Samuel Pannill
Campbell County
Virginia General Assembly
Hill
Attorney General of
Messrs
R. T. Arrington
S. P. Arrington
William Mahone
Petersburg
J. D. Cameron
Pennsylvania
Great Falls
Roanoke Rapids
Roanoke Rapids Power Company
Virginia Electric and Power Company
Roanoke Rapids Lake
Roanoke Rapids Dam
Vepco
Lake Gaston
Weldon
Roanoke Navigation Co
Waterpower
Plymouth
Elizabeth City
Edenton
Capitan Coles
Albermarle Sound
Champlain
Coles
North
Carolina
Three Gentlemen Survey Dan and Roanoke Rivers 1819 in Danville to Norfolk
Col. Benjamin W.S. Cabell Lawson Carter and Capt. Walter Coles, all Pittsylvania planters with War of 1812 and Assembly service, set out from Danville in May 1819 to survey the Dan and Roanoke rivers for potential batteaux navigation to Norfolk. Coles kept a journal noting falls, shoals, canal thoughts, Halifax collapse, Plymouth trade, and plans for heavier boats and a permanent navigation system.
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Norfolk
Danville
Halifax
N.C
Canat Danville
Great Falls
Roanoke
Rock Landing
Southwest
Piedmont
Charlotte
Prince Edward
Virginia
Petersburg
Richmond
Appomattox
Jordan’s Point
James River
Gaston
Col. Allen Jones
Roanoke River
Walter Coles
Coles
Pittsylvania County
Dan
Benjamin W.S. Cabell
Lawson Carter
Cabell
Virginia General Assembly
Assembly
Col. Cabell
Roanoke Rapids
Eaton's
Pugh’s
Batteaux
Falls
Badeaux
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Albemarle Sound
Dan and
Pasquotank
New
Dismal Swamp
Elizabeth River
Portsmouth
Patrick
Henry
Franklin
Pittsylvania
White Mill of
Dan River
Craghead
Samuel Blount
Halifax County
Mary E
Jane J. Weldon
General Assembly of Virginia
Old Dominion
President Hill
Markets
Canal
Roanoke Rivers
Union Street Bridge
Dan River Inc
Col. Jones
Hariot
Capitan Young
West Indies
River, Sound and Swamp