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Danville (Borough and countyseat)

a borough and countyseat of Montour co., Pa.; on the Susof Montour co., Pa.; on the Susquehanna river, and the Lackawanna, the Philadelphia and Reading and the Pennsylvania railroads, 154 miles N. W. of Philadelphia . Danville is in a district abounding with iron-ore, limestone, and anthracite coal ; and contains the first establishment erected in the United States for the manufacture of railroad iron, and still ranks among the most exin the country. There are blast furnaces , iron foundries, rolling mills, churches, 2 National banks, a State asylum for the insane, and daily and weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 7,517; (1920) 6,952. emy