SUTHERLIN MANSION - last Confederate Capital (Danville, VA)
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- After fleeing Richmond Jefferson Davis stayed at the mansion and gave his last final proclamation to the Confederacy. House also serves as the Danville Museum.
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Glad they turn this into a museum. I remember when it was a library. I took reading classes in the basement when the "Reading Center" was there. Thanks so much for sharing.
museum is nothing but art and leftist propaganda
Love my hometown. Thanks for sharing.
I visited several years ago. Lots of beautiful homes in the area.
Great place to visit!
Lived near Danville for 17 years. The deepest Southern accents in VA are in the Danville region and SW VA.
Richmond used to have a very distinctive accent too , like my grandparents had.
why this comment
I'm glad to know that Danville and SW VIrginia still retain their Southern accents. I remember being at a gas station in Northern Virginia (NOVA) off of I-95. After pumping my gas, I didn't receive a receipt, so I went inside to have them print one for me. I stood in a line. A woman behind the counter eventully asked if she could help me. I replied, "Yes, ma'am." I remember several people turning around and giving me a strange look. You would have thought I said a curse word. I couldn't believe their reaction. That's when I knew that NOVA is now YANKEE-DOODLE LAND, Y'ALL!!!
@@texasson7950 haha, true. The geographically southern section of VA is still strongly Southern in culture. The one good thing about NOVA is that it pumps lots of $$$ into the state, making VA one of the wealthier states in the country
Visited here, (I'm from England), enjoyed the museum
APPRECIATE YOUR TOUR!!!
My hometown. Really nice footage. That building was a public library when I was little.
DANVILLE VIRGINIA MY HOME TOWN ❤
Chris, one reason I love to follow you is because I also visited historic sites for thirty years with two dear friends..
Ninety percent of your posts are of sites where we too visited. We would visit Civil War battlefields and historic Colonial and Antebellum homes. At each site we would enjoy our brandy toastes. We had battle maps that indicated where each of our Great-grandfather's units were deployed.
Anyway, our interests are so similar and I essentually revisit a site nearly every time I open your posts.
As for the Sutherlin mansion... twenty years ago I was the architect for renovations and restorations, there.
There have been some places that I never knew about until you educated me.
One in particular is Lee Hill along the Fredericksburg line. Can't wait to visit it.
Once again thanks for your interest and passion in history and architecture.
Ps. When Richmond fell and the Confederate capitol moved to Danville few are aware that the state capitol moved to Lynchburg.
Awesome hearing things like that are what keeps me going. Thanks for the info about the Capital being moved to Lynchburg, will have to mention that next time I'm out that way. Plan on visiting Sayler's Creek in the near future as I had relatives that fought there. Thanks for watching!!
My hometown. Born and raised.
My hometown ❤
Thanks for posting this. Great video!
That bag on display in the upstairs hallway (that looks like a pillow) is a carpet bag. Carpetbaggers were people from the north who came to the south to profit by exploiting the economic problems during reconstruction. They often carried bags made from scraps of carpet.
Great house in a great town.
Nice! Thank you!!!!
love your vids...i live in fredericksburg so alot of it hits home.
Thank you
It’s not VA, but if you go 20 minutes outside of Danville you’ll hit a small town called Milton. A very old town, full of history
My home town.
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That's my childhood stomping ground. My parents still live on sutherlin ave and I'm only right up the street now.
Thank you, excellent video! They definitely have a nice collection of antiques! That house is similar to Hawkwood in the Green Springs Historic District in Louisa County, not a style you see very often in Virginia.
Cool I'll have to try and take a look at it next time I'm in the area
@@VATravels I am not sure how close you can get to the house, could probably fly drone over it. Interior of Hawkwood was gutted by fire in the 1980s. Boswell’s Tavern is nearby, you might want to see if there’s a tour there for Historic Garden Week in April of 2023…..thanks!!
Second post very good video
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Yes, I'm from DANvul too!😂
Its pronounced Dan Vul
Chris we will be in Williamsburg and Yorktown all weekend
I'm betting some Scoots BBQ was consumed. lol
We are leaving in a few hours will be there 11-10 thru 11-12
@@BillsWargameWorld Ah
I live here and have never even been in this museum lol
The guys with the confederate flags are protesting because they took the confederate flag down at the museum during the whole take down all confederate monuments movement.
Ah ok, thanks for letting me know
They raised 3 huge battle flags around the city of Danville. It even scared some Yankees away.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusicbattle flags? You mean the flags of the losers?
We're all losers from that war.
it is the 3rd natl. confederate flag. Danville is sin city!
The bust might be Napoleon.
I thot the confederate capitol was Richmond!!
it was the last capitol. when yankees came through Richmond , burning, and looting, rapeing