DANVILLE, a city of Virginia, U.S.A., on the high banks of the picturesque Dan river, near the southern boundary of the State ; in Pittsylvania county but politically independent of it. It is on Federal highways 17o and 5o1, and is served by the Danville and Western and the Southern railways. The population was 21,539 in 192o (26% negroes). The population for 193o, not in cluding immediate suburbs, was 22,247. It is one of the largest markets in the country for bright-leaf tobacco, handling oo, 000,000lb. annually, and has one of the largest and oldest cotton mills in the South, operating 13,462 looms and 467,000 spindles in 1928. There are hosiery and silk mills, and various other manu facturing industries. The aggregate output of the 37 factories in the city in 1927 was valued at $11,5o3,231. Danville was settled about 177o, incorporated as a town in 1792, and as a city in 1883. After the evacuation of Richmond on April 2, 1865, the archives of the Confederacy were brought to Danville, and for a few days Jefferson Davis made it his capital. The building in which he met his cabinet is now a Confederate memorial and museum.