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Location of Danville in Vermilion County, Illinois. / 40.12444°N 87.63000°W / 40.12444; -87.63000. Danville is a city in and the county seat of Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. [4] As of the 2020 census, its population was 29,204. It is the principal city of the Danville metropolitan area .
1850s. 1851 – Vermilion County is divided into eight townships: Danville, Georgetown, Elwood, Carroll, Ross, Middlefork, Newell (first called Richland), and Pilot. 1851 – B. E. Conkey founds Conkeytown. 1856 – Blount Township is created. 1857 – Mann's Chapel is constructed south of the future site of Rossville. 1858 – Catlin Township ...
2nd, 15th. Website. www.vercounty.org. Vermilion County is a county in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois, between the Indiana border and Champaign County. It was established in 1826 and was the 45th of Illinois' 102 counties. According to the 2020 United States census, it had a population of 74,188. [1]
1850 March 27, 1991 N/A Vermilion County Museum (Fithian House) 116 N. Gilbert St. 1855 March 27, 1991 May 1, 1975 DACC Buildings 5,6,7,8,9,10 & 17 2000 E. Main St. 1898 April 29, 1991 Old Germantown Fire Station 901 N. Bowman Ave. 1905 May 6, 1991 N/A Pearson/Frisch Home 408 Elizabeth St. 1880 June 17, 1991 N/A Old Fire Station #2
Danville race riot. The Danville race riot occurred on July 25, 1903, in Danville, Illinois, when a mob sought to lynch a Black man who had been arrested. On their way to county jail, an altercation occurred that led to the death of a rioter and the subsequent lynching of another Black man. At least two other Black residents were also assaulted.
France introduced African slavery to the Illinois Country in the early eighteenth century. French and other inhabitants of Illinois continued the practice of owning slaves throughout the Illinois Country's period of British rule (1763–1783), as well as after its transfer to the new United States in 1783 as Illinois County, Virginia.
5 ft ( 1,524 mm) American Civil War era. 4 ft 9 in ( 1,448 mm) [1] The Richmond and Danville Railroad (R&D) Company was a railroad that operated independently from 1847 until 1894, first in the U.S. state of Virginia, and later on 3,300 miles (5,300 km) of track in nine states. Chartered on March 9, 1847, the railroad completed its 140-mile ...
This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Illinois. Women's suffrage in Illinois began in the mid 1850s. The first women's suffrage group was created in 1855 in Earlville, Illinois by Susan Hoxie Richardson. The Illinois Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA), later renamed the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), was created by Mary ...