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unusual facts about Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad



1961 Indianapolis 500

John Masariu, 38, of Danville, Indiana was serving as a member of the fire/safety crew.

1991 Little League World Series

The Hsi Nan Little League of Taichung, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) defeated the San Ramon Valley Little League of Danville, California in the championship game of the 45th Little League World Series.

Archer T. Gammon

Gammon, aged 26 at his death, was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Danville, Virginia.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 501

The business routes and US 221 pass through a commercial area and by the Anne Spencer House, then turn west onto 12th Street and cross Norfolk Southern's Danville District rail line a few blocks south of the Lynchburg-Kemper Street Station, which is served by Amtrak.

Bismarck Henning High School

Bismarck Henning High School or BHHS is a high school located in Bismarck, Illinois, and is currently hosting students from Rossville, Alvin, Bismark, Henning, and parts of Danville.

Cherry Ames

Cherry (short for Charity) hails from Hilton, Illinois (based on Wells' hometown of Danville, Illinois), and was steered into nursing by Dr. Joseph Fortune, an old family friend.

Dan Washburn

Daniel Christopher Washburn (born October 31, 1973, Danville, Pennsylvania) is an American writer and journalist based in Shanghai, China since 2002.

Danville New Tech High

Danville New Tech High School is a school located in Danville, Illinois.

Danville River District

The Danville River District is a development project undertaken by the City of Danville, Virginia aimed at revitalizing the aging Danville Historic District and Tobacco Warehouse District.

Danville, Georgia

The town was named for Daniel G. Hughes, father of U.S. Representative Dudley Mays Hughes.

Danville, Kentucky

On October 5, 2000, Dick Cheney and Senator Joe Lieberman, candidates for Vice President of the United States, debated at Centre College during the 2000 presidential election.

Danville, Maryland

Danville, Prince George's County, Maryland, an unincorporated community in Prince George's County

Danville, Pennsylvania

Abigail Geisinger, widow of iron magnate George Geisinger, used his fortune to build a hospital and clinic intended to be a regional medical center modeled after the Mayo Clinic.

Danville, Quebec

This proportion was reversed during the mid-1970s when part of the younger generation migrated to English Canada or to Montreal.

Dave Albritton

Both were born in Alabama, Albritton in Danville and Owens in nearby Oakville; both attended East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio; both attended the Ohio State University; both were members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity; both competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Elreta Melton Alexander-Ralston

After spending about twelve years in Danville, Virginia, where Alexander spent much of her young life, the family returned to North Carolina, this time the bustling metropolis of Greensboro.

Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site

The Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site, located in Danville, California, preserves Tao House, the Monterey Colonial hillside home of America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O'Neill.

Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury

In a Season 7 episode of CSI: NY, entitled "Identity Crisis", it is revealed that the biological mother of Detective Jo Danville's adopted daughter, Ellie, is serving a long sentence at FCI Danbury.

Federal Hockey League

The Green Mountain Rock Crushers (later changed their name to the Vermont Wild) will play at Green Mountain Arena in Morrisville, Vermont, and the Danville Dashers will play at David S. Palmer Arena in Danville, Illinois.

Fountain County, Indiana

Another line, the Indianapolis, Crawfordsville and Danville Railroad (later the Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway), was started in 1855, but the general state of the economy halted construction in 1858.

Gorgeous Mess

Gorgeous Mess was recorded over a six month time period from 2001-2002 at Saturation Acres Studio in Danville, Pennsylvania.

Graham Field

Hendricks County Airport, also known as Gordon Graham Field, in Danville, Indiana, United States

Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard

After he walked for 75 miles in a single night to warn the town of Danville of an impending raid by Indians, he earned the nickname "Pa-pa-ma-ta-be," or "Swift-Walker."

Guy Morriss

According to news from The Advocate-Messenger of Danville, Kentucky, prior to taking the offensive line coach job at Kentucky State, Morriss was in talks with Boyle County High School for the head coaching job there but decided not to take it.

Henning High School

A town of note in the area includes Danville just 11 miles south and a little east of Henning.

James Garrard

Although some historians have identified Garrard as a member of the Danville Political Club, a secret debating society that was active in Danville, Kentucky, from 1786 to 1790, his name is not found in the Club's official membership records.

John Clawson

After his basketball career ended, Clawson worked at Merrill Lynch and as a high school teacher in Danville, California.

Joseph P. Kerwin

Kerwin is married to the former Shirley Ann Good of Danville, Pennsylvania.

Kent Township, Warren County, Indiana

A Norfolk Southern Railway line enters the township from Danville, Illinois and passes through State Line City, continuing northeast toward the county seat of Williamsport.

Kettle Falls International Railway

The northwestern leg goes into Canada and then drops back south, over the border with the United States, and ending at the town of Danville, Washington.

Larry Bitensky

He is currently the Charles T. Hazelrigg Associate Professor of Music at Centre College in Danville, KY, where he teaches music theory, composition, aural skills, and world music.

Lawrence Amos McLouth

He served as principal of the Danville, Illinois High School for three years, then proceeded to Europe for additional training, studying for two years at Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Munich.

Midwest League

In 1976 the Midwest League contracted from ten teams to eight when teams in Danville and Dubuque were eliminated.

Mount Lowe Railway

The railway was sold at auction to a Mr. Valentine Peyton of Danville, Illinois, who personally came to California to run the operation.

Patty Hill

Her father, William Wallace Hill, was born in Bath, Kentucky, graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 1833, and earned a doctorate of Theology from Princeton University in 1838.

Powell Flutes

Verne Q. Powell (b. 7 Apr 1879 Danville, Indiana; d Feb 3, 1968 Needham, Massachusetts) started playing flute as a young boy in Kansas.

Robert Owen Hutchins

Born in Danville, Illinois, Hutchins earned a B.S. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961, an M.A. degree in phytochemistry from California State University, Long Beach in 1962, and a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Purdue University under Joseph Wolinsky in 1967 .

Speed S. Fry

He graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1840 and returned to Danville to practice law under his uncle.

Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company

The final major piece of the THI&E was the 1912 addition of the Indianapolis Crawfordsville and Danville Electric Railway, nicknamed the "Ben Hur Route" in honor of Lew Wallace of Crawfordsville, author of the novel "Ben Hur."

Virginia State Route 41

To the north of SR 41 are the watersheds of Little Falls Creek east of White Oak Mountain and the Bannister River west of the mountain; these streams empty into the Dan River at Danville and near South Boston, respectively.

Virginia's 5th congressional district

It includes the independent cities of Bedford, Charlottesville (main site of the University of Virginia), Danville, as well as portions of three newly added counties Fauquier, Rappahannock and Madison.

Wayne Cody

Cody met Judy Carter (1943- ) who is related to Lynda Carter, in Danville, Illinois when he was working at the local Radio Station (WDAN).

Wayne Farms

Eventually, the company acquired processing plants in Danville, Arkansas, Laurel, Mississippi, Decatur, Alabama, Dobson, North Carolina, Pendergrass, Georgia, Enterprise, Alabama, College Park, Georgia and Dothan, Alabama.

WDFB

WDFB-FM, a radio station at 88.1 FM licensed to Danville, Kentucky

Wendell Scott

Mojo Nixon, a fellow Danville native, wrote a tribute song titled "The Ballad of Wendell Scott", which appears on Nixon and Skid Roper's 1986 album, Frenzy.

WGSR-LD

WGSR maintains studio facilities located on Piney Forest Road in Danville, and its transmitter is located northeast of Browns Summit, North Carolina.

William P. Holaday

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress, after which he resumed the practice of Law in Danville.

WLXI

From 1993 to 2009, WLXI's signal was relayed on low-power translator station W18BG (channel 18, now WMDV-LD) in Danville, Virginia.

WMDV-LD

WMDV-LD channel 44 is a low-power television station licensed to Danville, Virginia and serving that city and adjacent Pittsylvania, Halifax and Henry Counties.


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Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad

In the campground's later years, the Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad carried such items as bands to the campground.