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==History== Originally "Pittsylvania" was a name suggested for an unrealized British colony to be located primarily in what is now [[West Virginia]]. Pittsylvania County would not have been within this proposed colony, which subsequently was named [[Vandalia (colony)|Vandalia]]. Pittsylvania County was formed in 1767 with territory annexed from [[Halifax County, Virginia|Halifax County]]. It was named for [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham]], who served as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister of Great Britain]] from 1766 to 1768, and who opposed some harsh colonial policies of the period. In 1777 the western part of Pittsylvania County was partitioned off to became [[Patrick Henry County, Virginia|Patrick Henry County]]. Maud Clement's ''History of Pittsylvania County'' notes the following: "Despite the settlers' intentions, towns failed to develop for two reasons: the generally low level of economic activity in the area and the competition from [[plantations in the American South|plantation]] settlements already providing the kind of marketing and purchasing services typically offered by a town. Plantation settlements along the rivers, particularly at ferrying points, became commercial centers. The most important for early Pittsylvania was that of Sam Pannill, a Scots-Irishman, who at the end of the eighteenth century, while still a young man, set up a plantation town at Green Hill on the north side of the [[Staunton River]] in Campbell County. (Clement 15) "Its economy was tobacco-dominated and reliant on a growing [[Slavery in the United States|slave]] labor force. It was a county without towns or a commercial center. Plantation villages on the major river thoroughfares were the only centers of trade, until the emergence of [[Danville, Virginia|Danville]]. (Clement 23)" The city of Danville's history up through the antebellum period overall is an expression of the relationship between the town and the planters who influenced its development.
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