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Word: pittsylvania (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chatham, Va., a community of 1,822 residents not far from a highway connecting it with Greensboro, N.C., and beyond. In the center of town is the courthouse of Pittsylvania County -named after William Pitt the Elder, who was the Earl of Chatham. Chatham boasts the elegant, Episcopal-run Chatham Hall school for girls on one side of town and the Hargrave Military Academy on the other, as well as 19th-century wooden houses with broad front lawns and wide verandas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Small Town Soul | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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