Dansville (Livingston County, New York)
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Location in New York
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1795 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | new York | ||
| County : | Livingston County | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 34 ′ N , 77 ° 42 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 4,719 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 773.6 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 6.1 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) of which 6.1 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 215 m | ||
| Postal code : | 14437 | ||
| Area code : | +1 585 | ||
| FIPS : | 36-19664 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0948024 | ||
Dansville is a village ( Village ) in Livingston County of the US state of New York in the United States of America . The place is located in the area of the town of North Dansville , while the town of Dansville with the hamlet of South Dansville is a few kilometers south in Steuben County .
geography
Dansville is located in a valley formed by glaciers that slopes gently to the northwest to the Genesee River , about 20 km away . The valley is dominated by agriculture.
history
| Population development | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1870 | 3387 | - | |
| 1880 | 3625 | 7% | |
| 1890 | 3758 | 3.7% | |
| 1900 | 3633 | -3.3% | |
| 1910 | 3938 | 8.4% | |
| 1920 | 4631 | 17.6% | |
| 1930 | 4928 | 6.4% | |
| 1940 | 4976 | 1 % | |
| 1950 | 5253 | 5.6% | |
| 1960 | 5460 | 3.9% | |
| 1970 | 5436 | -0.4% | |
| 1980 | 4979 | -8.4% | |
| 1990 | 5002 | 0.5% | |
| 2000 | 4832 | -3.4% | |
| 2010 | 4719 | -2.3% | |
| 2016 estimate | 4510 | -4.4% | |
From 1795 European immigrants and their descendants settled in what was then the densely forested area of what is now Dansville. Daniel P. Faulkner, from a family who emigrated from Saxony to North America in the 17th century , founded a shop and a sawmill there in the same year. The name Dansville , which was officially mentioned for the first time in 1796 , is traced back to him.
When it was founded, the village was entirely in Steuben County, which established a town of Dansville as an administrative unit . In 1822, however, the northwestern part of Steuben County including the village of Danville was added to Livingston County, which was founded the previous year. There the village of Dansville was initially in the town of Sparta , before the town of North Dansville was founded in 1846 .
From 1841 Dansville was the end point of a branch canal of the Genesee Valley Canal , which triggered a rapid growth of the place. Within five years, the population doubled to around 4,000. In addition to agriculture, sawmills and paper mills achieved economic importance. With the completion of the Erie Railroad, which passed a few kilometers south of Dansville between the Hudson Valley and Dunkirk on Lake Erie in 1851, as well as an Erie Railroad branch from Hornell to Buffalo , neighboring towns of Dansville gained significantly in economic attractiveness. Dansville received its own rail connection in December 1871 via the Erie and Genesee Valley Railroad , which built a branch line from Mount Morris . From 1882 to 1963, the main line Binghampton - Buffalo of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad touched the area, but significantly higher and outside the core town. The canal was abandoned around 1878.
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From 1852 a spring on East Hill was used as a spa . A first Our Home on the Hillside called Sanatorium was from 1858 and was in 1883 after a fire as Jackson sanatorium built. From 1929 it was operated as a hotel ( Castle on the Hill ) before the complex was closed in 1971.
Clara Barton lived in Dansville from 1876 to 1886, after visiting the place for a cure in 1873 . On August 22, 1881, she founded the first local office of the American Red Cross nationwide .
The Power Specialty Company of the Foster family operated a machine factory in Dansville and the neighboring hamlet of Cumminsville from 1900 , which was gradually expanded in the following decades and was transferred to the Foster Wheeler Group in 1927 . The Foster Wheeler factory, which among other things manufactured steam boilers , was the largest single employer in Dansville between the 1920s and 1980s with several hundred employees. The plant was closed in March 2003.
Infrastructure
Interstate 390 Rochester - Avoca ( I 86 ) runs through the local area of Dansville.
On the tracks of the former Erie and Genesee Valley Railroad , later Dansville and Mount Morris Railroad , rail freight traffic is now offered in the local area of Dansville by the Rochester and Southern Railroad .
To the north of the town is the general aviation airport Dansville Municipal Airport , which has been the annual venue for the official Montgolfiade of New York State since 1981 .
Sons and daughters of the place
- Dennis Walter Hickey (1914–1999), Auxiliary Bishop of Rochester
- Randolph Strickland (1823–1880), politician in the US House of Representatives
- Edwin F. Sweet (1847–1935), US House of Representatives politician
Individual evidence
- ^ Dansville Village, New York. In: 2010 Census. United States Census Bureau , 2010, accessed November 25, 2018 .
- ^ Population and Housing Unit Estimates. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
- ↑ a b A.O. Bunnell, FI Quick: Dansville historical, biographical, descriptive . Dansville, NY. Instructor Pub. Co, 1902, ISBN 978-5-518-46286-1 , pp. 28–32 (Part I) (ISBN of a new edition).
- ^ Daniel P. Faulkner (1763-1802). Dansville Area Historical Society, accessed November 25, 2018 .
- ↑ a b A.O. Bunnell, FI Quick: Dansville historical, biographical, descriptive . Dansville, NY. Instructor Pub. Co, 1902, ISBN 978-5-518-46286-1 , pp. 40 (Part I) (ISBN of a new edition).
- ↑ a b Genese Valley Canal. (PDF) American Canal Society Canal Index, March 28, 2010, accessed November 25, 2018 .
- ^ AO Bunnell, FI Quick: Dansville historical, biographical, descriptive . Dansville, NY. Instructor Pub. Co, 1902, ISBN 978-5-518-46286-1 , pp. 27 ff. (Part II) (ISBN of a new edition).
- ^ David Gilbert: Dansville's "Castle on the Hill". Dansville Area Historical Society, accessed November 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Clara Barton Chronology 1870-1912. National Park Service , accessed November 25, 2018 .
- ^ William R. Cook, Eric C. Huynh: Around Dansville . Arcadia Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7385-3708-5 , pp. 28 .
- ↑ Pell W. Foster (1862-1947). Dansville Area Historical Society, accessed November 25, 2018 .
- ^ Foster Wheeler to close Dansville manufacturing facility. In: Power Engineering Magazine. PennWell, April 12, 2002, accessed November 25, 2018 .