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Dansville, Livingston County, New York
Summary
Dansville is a village in the town of North Dansville, with a small northern part in the town of Sparta in Livingston County, in western New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the village population was 4,433. The village is named after Daniel Faulkner, an early European-American settler. Interstate 390 passes the west side of the village.
A spa was opened in 1854, eventually attracted many prominent people to Dansville for the water cure. After a quick series of unsuccessful owners, it was purchased in September 1858 by new owners who recruited James Caleb Jackson as the physician-in-charge. He was assisted by his wife, known as "Mother Jackson", and their adopted daughter, Dr. Harriet Newell Austin. A Jackson family operation for many years, the family referred to it as the Jackson Sanatorium by 1890.
Harriet N. Austin, physician and dress reform advocate; grew up in Dansville
Clara Barton, resided in Dansville, where she established the first American Red Cross chapter in 1881.
Edward T. Fairchild, Wisconsin jurist; raised in Dansville
Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the United States; resided in the village for several months
Job E. Hedges, Republican nominee for governor of New York in 1912
Dennis Walter Hickey, Auxiliary Bishop of Rochester, New York
James Caleb Jackson, created Granula, the world's first breakfast cereal
Andrew J. Lorish, Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient; born in Dansville in 1832
Nathaniel Rochester, founder of Rochester, New York.
John Sullivan, Major League Baseball catcher and coach
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. The village sits in a glacially formed valley, common throughout western New York. Canaseraga Creek flows northward just west of the village limits; it is a tributary of the Genesee River.
Interstate 390, New York State Route 36, New York State Route 63, New York State Route 256, and New York State Route 436 pass through the village. It is bordered to the northwest by the unincorporated community of Cumminsville.
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