Historic Danville. Part 2

Continuation.  Part 1 Harry Wooding Statue This is a tribute to the longest serving Mayor in an American city.   Mayor Harry Wooding served Danville for 46 years and still provides everyday  leadership to the Danville judicial, standing in front of the Courthouse.

Harry Wooding Statue

Patton Street of Danville

Patton Street

Danville System "On this site stood Neal's Warehouse where the "Danville System" of selling tobacco began in 1858. Previously tobacco had been sold by sample from hogsheads, but under the new system it was sold at auction in open, loose piles so buyers could examine the whole lot. It is in general use today."

Danville System

The Register  Building.Publishing house, built 1947.

The Register

The Pythian Building, housing Phoenix Lodge #62.   The Lodge is home to the Danville area members of the Knights of Pythias,  a men’s fraternal service organization.

Pythian Building

Confederate Prison Number 6 Constructed in 1855 as a tobacco factory by Major William T.Sutherlin, this renovated structure housed Union prisoners during the Civil War, 1861-1865.  It was one of six Danville Confederate prisons in which as many as 7000 Union soldiers were confined.

Confederate Prison Number 6

Worsham Street Bridge   The bridge was build in 1928 by the Atlantic Bridge Company of Greensboro, North Carolina. Replacing a smaller iron-and wood bridge from the early 1900s, it was an open-spandrel reinforced concrete arch bridge and one of the longest and tallest of this type designed by noted engineer Daniel B.Luten. The bridge helped relieve traffic congestion on the nearby Main Street Bridge and facilitated farmers getting their tobacco crops to the warehouses and processing facilities on the south side of the river.   The bridge and the street were named for William W.Worsham, whose grandfather was one of the founding fathers of Danville. The bridge was the highest point above the Dan River. It was closed to traffic in 2004 and demolished in 2009.

A "monument" to Worsham Street Bridge

Barber Shop

Barber & Beauty Salon

North Union Place in last capital of the Confederate South

North Union Place