Danville
Danville names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Danville a city and county-seat of Vermilion co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Vermilion co., Ill.; on the Vermilion river, and the Wabash, Chicago, and Eastern Illinois, the Chicago, Indiana and Southern and the "Big Four" railroads; 125 miles S. of Chicago. It has a National Soldiers' Home for Disabled Veterans, with over 3,500 immates. Its chief industry is coal-mining, which is carried on extensively on the bluffs of the river. It also has large railroad car and machine shops, iron foundries, planing mills, carriage and wagon factories, organ and furniture factories, churches, a high school, 5 National banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. (1910) 27,871; (1920) 33,776. Pop.
Danville a borough and countyseat of Montour co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a borough and countyseat of 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 extensive in 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
Danville a city and county-seat of Pittsylvania co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Pittsylvania co., Va.; on the Dan river, and the Southern railroad, 140 miles S. W. of Richmond; is the seat of Randolph- Macon College, Roanoke Institute, and Danville School for Boys. It has good water-power , cotton mills, flour mills, grist mills , foundry, and tobacco factories. It is the center of the fine yellow tobacco section, and 30,000,000 pounds of leaf-tobacco are sold annually. It has a high school, water works, newspapers and 2 National banks. Pop. (1910) 19,020; (1920) 21,539.
Danville a city and county-seat of Boyle co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Boyle co., Ky.; on Dick's river, and the Queen and Crescent and Southern railroads; 42 miles S. of Frankfort. It is a stock-raising center, and the seat of several educational institutions , among them the Danville Theological Seminary, the Central University of Kentucky, Kentucky College for women and the State Asylum and School for Deaf Mutes. It has churches, public schools, 2 National banks and newspapers. Pop. (1910) 5,- 420; (1920) 5,099.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All four towns still exist, but the industries Collier's listed in 1921 have largely gone. Danville, Illinois, whose "chief industry is coal-mining," saw the mines close and its population fall from a 1970s peak of over 42,000 to roughly 29,000 today, though the Soldiers' Home survives as a Veterans Affairs medical centre. In Danville, Virginia, then selling 30,000,000 pounds of leaf tobacco a year, the loose-leaf auctions ended in the early 2000s and Dan River Mills, once among the world's largest textile operations, shut in 2006. The Pennsylvania borough, described as a district of iron furnaces and rolling mills, is now known instead for the Geisinger Medical Center, founded there in 1915 and today the hub of a health system employing far more people than the mills ever did; and in Kentucky, Central University merged into Centre College and the Danville Theological Seminary moved to Louisville.
Written for this edition, 2026.