Danville (Danville)
Within Kentucky, Danville is called the "City of Firsts":
* It housed the first courthouse in Kentucky.
* The first Kentucky constitution was written and signed here.
* It was the first capital of Kentucky.
* It had the first U.S. post office west of the Allegheny Mountains.
* It hosts the first state-supported school for the deaf.
* Ephraim McDowell completed the first known successful laparotomy here in 1809, removing an ovarian tumor from a woman patient without anesthesia.
* It is the home of Centre College, housing the oldest college administration building and campus west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Danville was part of the Great Settlement Area around Fort Harrod (present-day Harrodsburg), which was first settled in 1774. The site was originally known as Crow's Station for settler John Crow, but the town was surveyed and platted by Walker Daniel, Kentucky's first district attorney, who bought 76 acre near the Wilderness Road from Crow in 1783. The city was named for Daniel. The Virginia legislature officially established Danville on December 4, 1787.
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