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Friday, July 28, 2023

Reidsville-Danville Highway Celebration in Guerrant Springs, July 28, 1923

Reidsville-Danville Highway Celebration

Ruffin, July 28—a new bond of amity between the peoples of Reidsville and Danville, Va., was formed yesterday in the picturesque setting of Guerrant Springs, a few miles from here, where an old-fashioned fete champete was held by the people of the two communities and farmers from the surrounding section in honor of the completion of the Reidsville Road, a 17-mile stretch from that city to the Virginia line.

From the front page of the Tri-City Daily Gazette, Saturday, July 28, 1923. A fete champetre (French) is an outdoor entertainment, a large garden party.

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