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Schoolfield
W Main St, Danville,
VA ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
36° 34' 9.606396",
-79° 25' 28.868988"
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Virginia State
Historical Marker
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Schoolfield, established in 1903 as a textile mill village, was named for three brothers who founded Riverside Cotton Mills, later Dan River Mills. By the 1920s, this company town--complete with a school, churches, stores, a theatre, and other recreational facilities--was home to over 4,500 residents, mostly mill employees and their families, living in some 800 rental houses. A strike in 1930-31 ended a decade of employer~employee cooperation known as Industrial Democracy, yet the community's tradition of neighborhood and family life continued to flourish. Danville annexed Schoolfield in 1951.
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Schoolfield Historical Marker Location Map, Danville, Virginia Map
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