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About Danville, Vermont 
Caledonia County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Danville's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
Considerable mythology exists about the naming of Danville. The story most often repeated (started in Hemenway's Gazetteer and picked up by various writers and even some recent guidebooks) links it to "a distinguished French Admiral D'Anville", except that no such person existed. The Reverend Mr. Goodwillie says it is for a son of Jonathan Arnold (founder of St. Johnsbury), which son also did not exist. Other writers have ascribed it to various other Frenchmen.
In fact, the name was suggested by a friend of Ethan Allen's, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecouer, to honor another Frenchman, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, who had been France's royal cartographer for more than 60 years, and who is considered to have singlehandedly done more to change mapmaking than any man who ever lived. Correspondence between Allen and de Crèvecouer about names for Vermont towns is a matter of record. Under the pseudonym J. Hector St. John, de Crèvecouer wrote one of the best known titles in early Americana, Letters From an American Farmer (1782). It is for de Crèvecouer that St. Johnsbury was named.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Activities & Points of Interest
Goings-on in and near Danville Covered Bridge
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Click Here for a map of all bridges in Caledonia County. |
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables Roman Catholic : Our Lady Queen of Peace |
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Schools Caledonia Central Supervisory Union 802-684-3801 |
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This is a basic geographic reference, intended to show relative location of adjacent towns. Directional accuracy is limited to 16 compass points. There isn't even the slightest suggestion that one can necessarily travel directly from one town to the next (as in "You can't get there from here").
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Utilities Notes about utilities:
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