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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Pine Crest (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Pine Crest. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Cemeteries Near Pine Crest ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pine Crest.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Pine Crest - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Pine Crest covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pine Crest, with the one closest to Pine Crest listed first.

  • Cunningham Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Leemont Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Highland Burial Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Burial Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Highland Burial Park is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Danville.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #50621 <1>
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View Cemetery
    • The Mountain View Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Mt. View Cemetery
  • Mt. View Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Grove Street Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Freedmens Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Green Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Danville National Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Danville Memorial Gardens
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Schoolfield Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
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    • Floral Hill Memorial Garden
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Stokesland Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Mt. Zion Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

While we didn't find Pine Crest in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pine Crest.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Pine Crest, with the one closest to Pine Crest listed first.

  • Gatewood
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Gatewood is located in Caswell County (NC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gatewood
  • Ringgold
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Ringgold is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ringgold
  • Kentuck
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Kentuck is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentuck
  • Mount Cross
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Mount Cross is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Cross
  • Pleasant Gap
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Pleasant Gap is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Gap
  • Vandola
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Vandola is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vandola
  • Bachelors Hall
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Bachelors Hall is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bachelors Hall
  • Pelham
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Pelham is located in Caswell County (NC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pelham
  • Buford
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Buford is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buford
  • Purley
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Purley is located in Caswell County (NC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Purley
  • Blanch
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Dry Fork
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Dry Fork is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Fork
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    • Keeling
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Keeling is located in Pittsylvania County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keeling
    • Whitmell
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Whitmell is located in Pittsylvania County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitmell
    • Vance
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Vance is located in Pittsylvania County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vance

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Pine Crest. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pine Crest.

Newspapers Published in Pine Crest ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 85 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pine Crest.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pine Crest, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pine Crest.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Pine Crest:

Footnotes ...

<1>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Pine Crest, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pine Crest) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.