Editing Danville, Vermont (section)

==History==
Danville was established on October 31, 1786, by the Vermont Legislature, making it one of the last towns to be created in Caledonia County.

The town was named for the 18th-century [[France|French]] [[cartographer]] [[Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Government Printing Office| author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n99 100]}}</ref>

A [[debtors' prison]] was located here in the late 18th to the early 19th centuries.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Bethany M. | last=Dunbar | title=Barton's hydroelectric history is revisited | newspaper=[[The Chronicle (Barton, Vermont)|The Chronicle]] | location=[[Barton, Vermont]] | pages= 1B | date=June 26, 2013 }}</ref>

A thief in West Danville made national news in 2008 when he apologized for robbing a convenience store and left a roll of one-dollar bills to allow the store to open up the next morning.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2008Nov21/0,4675,ODDApologeticThief,00.html|title=Robber apologizes during Vt. general store holdup|date=November 21, 2008|agency=Associated Press}}</ref>

The annual convention of the American Society of Dowsers is held in Danville.<ref name="VE">"Danville" in ''The Vermont Encyclopedia'' (eds. John J. Duffy, Samuel B. Hand & Ralph H. Orth: University of Vermont Press, 2003), p. 101.</ref><ref>John Nobel Wilford, [https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/21/archives/dowsers-meet-to-plumb-the-unfathomable.html?_r=0 Dowsers Meet to Plumb the Unfathomable], ''New York Times'' (September 21, 1977).</ref>

In July 2017, the Charles D. Brainerd Public Library reopened in the village of [[West Danville, Vermont|West Danville]], making the town once again home to Vermont's smallest library.<ref>{{Cite news | title=Historic Library Now Open | url=http://www.caledonianrecord.com/news/local/historic-library-now-open/article_7814b3a4-fd23-5c96-8ab8-61206a78c1a0.html| newspaper=[[The Caledonian-Record]] | location=[[St. Johnsbury, Vermont]] | date=July 17, 2017 | access-date=August 23, 2017}}</ref>