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Since 1858 this has been the site of annual meeting of Religious Society of Friends.

Residential district bounded by Main, East, Cross, and Marion streets. Nineteenth and early twentieth century homes reflect social and economic diversity of residents, including town's prominent citizens.

The college was organized 1876 at Ladoga as the second private Indiana normal school specializing in teacher training and was moved in 1878 to old Danville Academy building. Central Normal College was the last self-supporting private normal school in Midwest when it closed 1946.

One of 1,679 libraries built in U.S. with funds from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It was built in 1902-1903 being dedicated in 1903 with approximately 1,000 volumes.

He was born in Danville on March 5, 1860 and played for the National League Detroit Wolverines (1885-1888), Philadelphia Phillies (1889-1898) and with the American League Detroit Tigers (1906). Inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame 1974 and Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame 1979, Thompson remains first in runs batted in per game, edging out Lou Gehrig.

He was the commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic Association from 1922 to 1944, the force behind the rise of the Indiana High School Basketball Tournament, which became known as "Hoosier Hysteria” and the Trester Medal for Mental Attitude which was first awarded in 1945. He was inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961 and the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1965.

The statue is a place where parents who have lost children come to mourn and reach out to their own "little angels." To date, 73 identical Angels have been placed throughout the nation.

A bronze sculpture, created by Gary Lee Price, is of a boy and girl releasing doves. As said by Gary Lee Price, children are the hope of the future and if anything represents peace it is children releasing doves into the air.

Donated to the Town of Danville by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, this sculpture stands 16 feet tall and is 16 feet wide at the base and weighs 8,000 lbs. It was created in 1980 by American sculptor, Betty Gold. The geometric sculpture was crafted from a single plate of 1-inch thick raw steel, intended to weather and rust naturally as it sits exposed to the outdoor elements.

This abstract sculpture was created by Oded Halahmy. It was donated to the Town of Danville by the Indianapolis Museum of Art after several decades on display in the museum's renowned sculpture garden.

A bronze sculpture, created by Gary Lee Price, is of a boy holding a girl releasing butterflies. His sculpture is about renewal and rebirth; the metamorphosis that promotes change.