Tuesday, April 20, 2010

ASSIGNMENT # 3 PART C


Inman children's school// Daniel Inman/// Daniel Inman ranch
Green Valley School



Secondary Sources!!



There are many lores and tales about Danville and the most interesting is the funny lore how Danville was named. It was touched on about how Danville got it's name but this will rip apart any ideas or secondary sources used, though the lore of how Danville was named is still being argued about to this day. The Inman brothers were some fo the first people to settle in Danville and it was thought that they had come to a name, after one of the Inman brothers, Daniel.They had both decided, so it is told that they named the settlement after Daniel and Danville is very close to Daniel. Some Danville historians have stated that they named if after Daniel or Dan for short and called it Dan's village or Danville. It must be noted that many settlements or soon to be towns were named after one of the founding members and the use of Ville or Burg was put at the end, as in Boonesburg or the endless others.



The other half of how historians who think of how Danville was named, comes from the idea that Danville was named after one of the Inman brothers' mother-in-law home town of Danville, Kentucky. The mother-in-law in question was Andrew Inman's wife mother and out of respect of her, they had named the settlement Danville. It was said that grandma Sara Young and the mother-in-law as mentioned, they were there when settlement folk told the Inmans that a name was needed for the settlement. Daniel did not get along all too well with Andrew's Mother-in-law but the name came not after just the idea of naming the town after the mother-in-law hometown but also that of grandma Sara Young, who also came from Danville, Kentucky.



The naming lore of the naming of Danville is that, it was named after the mother-in-law but when really it was named mostly out of respect for Grandma Sara Young and that it sounded alot like Dan Inman. Inmanville was the first name put up for the settlement, but it was soon rejected by both the Inman brothers and grandma Sara Young. You can really see how Danville was really partly named from Daniel Inman first name and out of respect for Grandma Sara Young, who had real fond memories of Danville, Kentucky, growing up there.



The question of the mother-in-law, well maybe Andrew made a point of naming it Danville, as they say out of respect for the mother-in law, being married to the daughter of her. It is also very doubtful that both Daniel or Grandma Sara Young felt the same way as Andrew and through research, you can sense a tension between some of the Inman/Young clan and the mother-in laws family. The question of use of secondary sources in guessing why Danville was named that name, well you get the idea that maybe there were several reasons but the lore and also the guessing continues in why Danville was named that and who it was named after!
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Danville is important in the whole basis of the Bay Area because it is home of Blackhawk which are where many of the movie pictures actors, various athletes and movers and shakers of the business world live. The naming of Danville is important in the identity of what would be a very important town in the East Bay, not only in the well known people who live there such as Eugene Oneil but Danville also houses the Blackhawk Museum, a world known automobile Musueum. The list goes on with the importance of Danville, to not only the Bay Area but to California and the United States, like being the middle line of the Southern Pacific line through the San Ramon Valley as one example, thus linking the valley and Livermore vineyards to the world. Danville is not a name that Daniel and Andrew Inman named a little settlement in the San Ramon Valley, no it was more than that, in that it had significant contributions then and also later for the S.F bay Area, California and the United States. This blog simple shows the strange and curious naming of Danville, how it got it's name and how a little settlement started and then
later became significant in the annuals of history.

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