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Thank you to the 300+ who helped shape the plan for Mechanicsville. You can view the draft plan at the link below.
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About Plan Mechanicsville
The City of Danville is developing a Master Plan that will reinvigorate and transform the Mechanicsville neighborhood. The Plan will combine professional expertise with community input to produce a clear vision and direction to transform one of Danville's designated historic districts and continue the growth of the River District as a thriving hub. It will also focus on preserving and elevating the area's history.
Mechanicsville emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a distinctive, ethnically mixed neighborhood of tradesmen, educators, skilled workers, and laborers associated with Danville’s textile and tobacco industries. Although the source of the name “Mechanicsville” is not well-known today, it’s well documented, beginning after the Civil War. African-Americans made up the majority of the tobacco labor force, and, as a result, Mechanicsville and the “Dan Hill” area to the south of Main Street became neighborhoods for freedmen in the years following the Civil War.
