Danville Heritage Museum Plan

By the Danville Heritage Association

The proposed Danville Area Museum will be located in room #8 on the upper floor of the school building.  The Museum will provide the community with a place to showcase the unique history of the Danville area, pictures of Danville in its infancy and its growth, and  objects, items, and documents of its past.  A place for one and all to learn Our Heritage.

Evolution of 3 Villages into the Village of Danville

1.    Danville - by Daniel Sapp

2.    Rosstown/later Rossville - by Jacob Ross          

3.    Buckeye City - by J. C. Tilton

Growth of Education in the Danville Area – a chronology

1.    Danville Schools

2.    Township Schools

3.    Graduating Students, Class Groupings & Class Pictures

4.    Compile & Digitize all Clarion Yearbooks

5.    Student’s Classroom Books

6.    Athletics / Music / Activities

Impact on Community by

1.    Stores, Merchants, Marketplace

2.    Industry & Agriculture

3.    The Railroad

4.    Notable People & Stories

5.    Danville Fire Department

6.    Rails to Trails Bikepath development

Veterans Corner – History and background of our veterans who served.

Raccoon Dinner – 85-year old Lions Club & the 80-year history of the Raccoon Dinner.

History of the Surrounding Communities

1.    Brinkhaven / Gann – previously Mt. Holly

2.    Greer - previously Greersville

3.    Millwood

4.    Zuck (pronounced zook / destroyed in 1913 flood); Walhonding; Cavallo (canal terminus), Howard, Amity, Jelloway, Apple Valley

5.    Terminal Morain – the end of the glacier

Website - Appropriate portions of the Danville Heritage Museum will be part of the Website www.DanvilleHeritage.org

Donation of historic pictures, stories, documents, books, or items of our heritage will be welcomed.