Danville

Danville, (1) capital of Vermilion county, Illinois, on the Vermilion River, 132 miles S. of Chicago by rail. It is an important railway junction, and contains railway-shops, besides a number of steam-mills and foundries, and organ and chair factories. Bituminous coal is mined near by. Pop. (1890) 11,491.—(2) Capital of Montour county, Pennsylvania, on the north branch of the Susquehanna, 68 miles N. by E. of Harrisburg by rail. The place was first settled in 1768, and the Pennsylvania Ironworks here is the oldest establishment in the United States for the manufacture of railroad iron. There are also numerous blast-furnaces, foundries, and rolling-mills, and the annual value of the iron forged and rolled here has sometimes reached $5,000,000. Pop. 7998.—(3) A flourishing town of Virginia, on both sides of the Dan River, here spanned by an iron bridge, 141 miles SW. of Richmond by rail, with a female college, large cotton and other mills, and a very important trade in tobacco. Pop. 10,305.