Today, a trip down Route 29 South between Tightsqueeze and Blairs cuts right through the land once known as Cartersburg. In the late 1700s, the Carter family owned grand landholdings ...
On Jan. 26, 1775, Pittsylvania County residents gathered at the courthouse in Callands to organize revolution. A group of men appointed by the local citizenry risked everything by taking a public ...
A pair of weekend brush fires burned more than a hundred acres in Pittsylvania County burned around 70 acres Friday afternoon on Zion Road not far from Gretna. Gretna Fire and Rescue was the lead ...
When delving into research about the early history of Danville, Virginia, the Cabell family appears with prevalence. The first of the Danville branch of the family, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, ...