Danville is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The city is located in the Southside Virginia region and on the fall line of the Dan River. It was a center of tobacco production and was an area of Confederate activity during the American Civil War, due to its strategic location on the Richmond and Danville Railroad. In April 1865 it briefly served as the third and final capital of the Confederacy before its surrender later that year.
Worsham Street Overlook, Main & Ridge St. Intersection, Masonic Building (River City Towers), Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge, Municipal Building from Union Street, Repurposed Dan River Fabrics "Home" Sign.(Clockwise from the Top)
The Dan River in downtown Danville
Danville was home to tobacco entrepreneur William T. Sutherlin. The city was sometimes called the "last capitol of the Confederacy"
Dan's Hill estate in western Danville
The Dan River flows 214 miles (344 km) in the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia. It rises in Patrick County, Virginia, and crosses the state border into Stokes County, North Carolina. It then flows into Rockingham County. From there it flows back into Virginia through Pittsylvania County before reentering North Carolina near the border between Caswell County and Rockingham County. It flows into northern Caswell County and then back into southern Virginia and finally into Kerr Reservoir on the Roanoke River.
View of the Dan River, Danville, Virginia