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Danville's Early Roots At Wynne's Falls And Main Street
The 1829 snapshot of Danville shows Wynne's Falls as the town's origin, with settlers like William Wynne and John Barnett shaping river trade. Coleman recalls a sparse Main Street with two stores, a toll bridge, a fledgling tobacco trade, a lone newspaper The Telegraph, and minimal formal worship, as the village on the Dan began to grow.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Danville
The
Dan
Commonwealth
William Wynne
Brunswick County
Pittsylvania County
Virginia
Brunswick
Wynne
George W. Dame
Episcopal Church of the Epiphany
Wynne’s Falls
Dan River
Dame
John Barnett
Barnett
George Adams
John Call
Matthew Clay
James Dix
Thomas Fearne
William Harrison
Roberty Pane
Thomas Smith
John Sutherlin
Thomas Tunstall
John Wilson
Thomas Worsham
Edward Pollock
James Colquhoun
Harcourt Townes
Main
Craghead
Charles Hoyle
Main Street
Roanoke Sentinel
Thompson Coleman
Coleman
Pittsylvania Court House
Chatham
North Danville
Caswell County
N.C
Salisbury
Grove Street
Bridge Street
Thomas
Samuel D. Rawlings
John Ross & Co
Wilson and Baskerville and Ross, Lansdown & Co
Farmer's Bank of Virginia
Seymour Scott
John W. Chew
John Noble
Linn’s
Samuel Patton
James D. Patton
Gilmore & Lyon
Samuel D. Rawling
John B. Roy
Wm. Linn
Wm. Chandler
Telegraph
Thomas H. Clark
Yellow House
Robert B. Gilliam
James Aiken
Robert White