Danville, Pennsylvania
| Danville, Pennsylvania | |
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Downtown Danville
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| Nickname(s): Ironmen Country, D-Block | |
 Danville
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| Coordinates: 40°57′42″N 76°36′43″W / 40.96167°N 76.61194°WCoordinates: 40°57′42″N 76°36′43″W / 40.96167°N 76.61194°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Montour |
| Settled | 1776 |
| Incorporated (borough) | 1792 |
| Government | |
| • Mayoress | Bernie Swank (Republican) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.6 sq mi (4.1 km2) |
| Elevation | 500 ft (200 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 4,699 |
| • Density | 2,936.8/sq mi (1,146.1/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC) |
| ZIP code | 17821 17822 |
| Area code(s) | 570 |
| Website | Danville |
Danville is a borough in and the county seat of Montour County, Pennsylvania, United States, along the North Branch of the Susquehanna River. Danville was home to 8,042 people in 1900, 7,517 people in 1910, and 7,122 people in 1940. The population was 4,699 at the 2010 census.
Danville is part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick Micropolitan Statistical Area.
As Europeans explored the coastal regions reachable from ships at the dawn of the 17th Century, the whole valley of the Susquehanna from South-central New York state to the upper Chesapeake Bay was owned by the fierce Iroquois-like Susquehannock people, like the Erie people, an Iroquoian speaking tribe with a similar related culture. As the European wars of religion lulled before the cataclysm of the Thirty Years' War, ca. 1600 AD the protestant Dutch traders first entered the Delaware Valley and began regularly trading firearms for furs, especially highly valued Beaver Pelts with the inland Susquehannock people in the vicinity of greater Philadelphia.
Although the Susquehannocks lived well inland their hunting range owned the rich Beaver territory of the entire Susquehanna River drainage basin, since the Susquehannock's range also included hunting the Schuylkill and Lehigh Rivers and their tributaries (which they historically disputed by occasional mutual raiding with the Algonquian Delaware people dwelling along the Atlantic coastal strip extending west from Delaware and southern New Jersey into the Poconos), the Susquehanna had a wealth of coveted Beaver pelts, and so became formidably well armed.
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