Events and History

Fundraising Events

Stews - Bake Sales - Car Washes

VIPS will spilt the proceeds raised with event partner

Investigation Events

We are looking to sponsor a public investigation of a local haunted location.

We would plan to charge $20 to $40 per person who attends the event.

VIPS will spilt the proceeds with the event partner and a charity partner.

Ghost Tour Events

Historical Society Events

We would like to help promote tourism to your community. Please contact us today to setup your event.

 Danville, VA History:

In 1728, William Byrd headed an expedition sent to determine the true boundary between Virginia and North Carolina. One night late that summer, the party camped upstream from what is now Danville, Byrd was so taken with the beauty of the land, that he prophesied a future settlement in the vicinity, where people would live “with much comfort and gaiety of Heart.” The river along which he camped was named the “Dan”, for Byrd, supposing himself to be in the land of plenty, felt he had wandered “from Dan to Beersheba”.

The first white settlement (numerous Native American tribes had lived in the area) occurred downstream from Byrd’s campsite in 1792, at a spot along the river shallow enough to allow fording. It was named “Wynne’s Falls,” after the first settler. The village has a “social” reason for its origin, since it was here that pioneering Revolutionary War veterans met once a year to fish and talk over old times.

The establishment by the General Assembly of a tobacco warehouse at Wynne’s Falls in 1793 was the beginning of “The World’s Best Tobacco Market.” Virginia’s largest market for bright leaf tobacco. The village was renamed Danville by act of the Virginia Legislature on November 23, 1793. A charter for the town was drawn up February 17, 1830, but by the time of its issue, the population had exceeded the pre-arranged boundaries. This necessitated a new charter, which was issued in 1833. In that year, James Lanier was elected the first mayor, assisted by a council of “twelve fit and able men.”

http://www.victorianvilla.com/sims-mitchell/local/articles/phsp/008

Danville during the Civil War....