After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, the Soul of Second Street Festival returns to downtown Danville on Saturday, Aug. 27. Held at Constitution Square Park, the event is a celebration of Danville’s African American legacy. “We are really excited to be back,” said program coordinator Michael Hughes. “This event means so much to the [...]
Around every corner in Danville, you’ll find a window on the past. That’s especially true if you’re turning a corner onto 2nd Street, long a business and social center for the city’s African American populace. Doric Lodge No. 18, built in 1920 with donations from its masonic brotherhood, was the anchor of the 2nd Street [...]
Originally constructed as a stone house in 1790 and expanded as an antebellum plantation house in the 1840s and 1850s, Chaplin Hill Bed and Breakfast, at 4221 Perryville Road in Danville, is a popular retreat on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. As you approach by the long, tree-lined drive, you’ll be impressed by the stateliness of [...]
Your day of Central Kentucky history begins on a tranquil Bluegrass morning, after a stay in the simple luxury of one of Danville’s historic bed-and-breakfasts. Perhaps you’ve stayed at Chaplin Hill, a plantation house dating to 1790, and you’re enjoying coffee in their lovely boxwood garden. Or perhaps you’ve rested, like generations before you, at [...]
