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Whitfield: US-58 - WB - US-29 BUS SW of Danville
Few places in southern Virginia have a history as closely tied to tobacco farming as Whitfield. Set in the rolling Piedmont southwest of Danville, this small community lies near the Dan River basin and the US 29–US 58 highway corridor. The surrounding region was shaped by tobacco agriculture, while nearby Danville became an important tobacco-market and textile-manufacturing centre. Wide roads, wooded edges and scattered development give Whitfield a practical rural-urban character, placing it on routes between Danville, the Virginia Piedmont and the North Carolina state line.
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