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South Hill

S Mecklenburg Ave, VA , USA

Latitude & Longitude: 36° 43' 31.2456", -78° 7' 46.4052"
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In 1889 South Hill's founding fathers laid out the town's boundary in a circle radiating 5~8s of a mile from a point within the intersection of the Atlantic and Danville Railway tracks and the Boydton Plank Road (now U.S. Rt. 1). South Hill was incorporated as a town on 16 Feb. 1901 and remained one of only three circular municipalities in the United States until an annexation in 1967. Tobacco, brought to market at the town's many warehouses, greatly influenced South Hill's growth and economy. By 1907, it was the third-largest flue-cured tobacco market in the state.

Last updated: Department of Historic Resources 2009
 
   
 
 
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