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DANVILLE , a See also:city in Pittsylvania See also:county, See also:Virginia, U.S.A., on the See also:Dan See also:river about 140 M. (by See also:rail) S.W. of See also:Richmond. Pop. (1890) 10,305; (1900) 16,520 (6515 negroes); (1910) 19,020. It is on the See also:main See also:line of the See also:Southern railway, and is the See also:terminus of branches to Richmond and See also:Norfolk; it is also served by the Danville & Western railway, a road (75 M. See also:long) connecting with See also:Stuart, Va., and controlled by the Southern, though operated independently. The city is built on high ground above the river. It has a city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, a See also:general See also:hospital, a Masonic See also:temple, and a number of educational institutions, including the See also:Roanoke See also:College (1860; Baptist), for See also:young See also:women; the See also:Randolph-See also:Macon See also:Institute (1897; Methodist Episcopal, See also:South), for girls; and a commercial college. The river furnishes valuable See also:water-See also:power, which is utilized by the city's manufactories (value of product in 1900, third in See also:rank in the See also:state, $8,103,484, of which only $3,693,792 was " factory " product; in 1905 the " factory " product was valued at $4,774,818), including See also:cotton mills—in 1905 Danville ranked first among the cities of the state in the value of cotton goods produced—a number of See also:tobacco factories, See also:furniture and overall factories, and See also:flour and See also:knitting See also:mills. The city is a jobbing centre and wholesale See also:market for a consider-able See also:area in southern Virginia and See also:northern See also:North Carolina, and is probably the largest loose-See also:leaf tobacco market in the See also:country, selling about 40,000,000 lb annually. In the See also:industrial suburb of Schoolfield, which in 1908 had a See also:population of about 3000, there is a large textile See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill. The city owns and operates its water-See also:supply See also:system (with an excellent filtration plant installed in 1904) and its See also:gas and electric See also:lighting See also:plants. Danville was settled about 1770, was first incorporated as a See also:town in 1792, and became a city in 1833; it is politically See also:independent of Pittsylvania county. To Danville, after the evacuation of Richmond on the 2nd of See also:April 1865, the archives of the Confederacy were carried, and here See also:President See also:Jefferson See also:Davis paused for a few days in his See also:flight southward.
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