Daniel's Hill Historic District

Daniel's Hill is a compact residential neighborhood on a narrow ridge between the James River and Blackwater Creek, just northeast of downtown Lynchburg. About 180 buildings, nearly all houses, line a grid of streets centered on Cabell Street, the only through route. Point of Honor, a Federal plantation house of 1815, anchors the southern end, and its surrounding land was subdivided for the neighborhood beginning in the 1840s. Cabell Street holds a sequence of mid- and late-19th-century mansions in Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and Eastlake styles, many tied to prominent local families. Nearby streets contain small frame vernacular houses built mostly around 1900 for factory workers and for servants of the large houses. Three commercial buildings at the foot of Cabell Street, including two early tobacco warehouses, mark the historic entrance. The district is valued for the contrast between grand and modest dwellings and for having few modern intrusions despite decades of decline.