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PITTSYLVANIA, Virginia in the 1880s: 1 through 6 of 6

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  1. Riverside Cotton Mills and the Water Power Company
    date June 10, 1882 to August 30, 1882map PITTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags Agriculture, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Danville was only one of the many places that experienced the development of a newly mechanized and more highly capitalized cotton-processing business. As mentioned in the Promise of the New South, a prominent mill owner recalled that “every city and town and village wanted a cotton mill.' Furthermore, towns took pride in their new water works, which first were established in major cities in the...

  2. Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute Opened
    date October 1, 1883map PITTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Education

    Education has always been the most stressed issue advocated by Civil Rights activists. From education one gains knowledge of his or her surroundings and from that knowledge can go forth to establish oneself in the ever-changing world. For African-Americans, education was paramount in the fight for equality. Though creating schools for blacks was not easy in the late 19th century south, some innovative...

  3. Danville Riot
    date November 3, 1883 to November 5, 1883map PITTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    Racial tension in the late 19th century peaked in the Southeastern United States. Blacks fought what seemed to be an impossible objective as they sought out equality in a predominately white world. Nevertheless slow and steady progress was being made as African American advanced in social, political, and economic arenas. These establishments brought with them the wrath of Southern white fear and...

  4. Governor Mahone's Views on the Riot
    date November 3, 1883 to November 6, 1883map PITTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Economy, Government, Politics, Race-Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    On November 3, 1883, a black man refused to move off the sidewalk for a white man, and the ensuing violence caused a riot throughout the city of Danville as whites and blacks were attacked each other. One white man and five black men were killed. Each side blamed the other for starting the riot. Its repercussions sent shockwaves through the state of Virginia, especially with the November elections...

  5. They Elope
    date March 18, 1886 to 1886map PITTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Women

    Miss Lizzie D. Hutter was everything a southern, Virginia belle should be. She was accomplished, beautiful, from a good family, and very popular in the highest of social circles. She was known as a poetically perfect and symmetrically beautiful girl. She was the eldest daughter of the superintendent of the Houston mines, and both her mother's and father's side were distinguished families in Danville....

  6. The Lynching of Scott Baily
    date April 23, 1889map PITTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Race-Relations

    On April 23rd, 1889, “...Scott Baily, colored, made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to commit an outrage on the person of one of the most prominent young ladies in the village. ; Baily was caught soon afterwards, confessed his crime, and was lynched about midnight.' The ritual act of lynching was used by white Southerners to literally destroy the humanity of the black victim, but also to...