Daneville was the name of the school district for the Community of Danetown. It was formed on May 8, 1874 with O. P. Richardson and Nader as trustees and L. C. Gage being the first teacher at about $60.00 a month. The school house was located on the northeast corner of now Big Bend and McCourtney Roads, was well finished and had patent furniture.
Very typical of the schools at this time was usually one tree for shade, but very little other landscaping, one room with a porch across the front facing the road and a steep shingled roof.
The school was built near the community of Danetown named because of the many families of that nationality who had settled there.
Most of the teachers were boarded at the home of Mrs. Mattie Wiswell. Some of the teachers were: John H. Beers of Chico, Mrs. Lawford, Sadie Bickford and Florence Clark.
Some of the families who attended there were: Tofft, Wiswell, Comstock, Williford, Smith, Ahart, Osborn Cleaver, Stevens, Bond, Tyler and Knudson.
In 1919 the school unified with the Lincoln Union Grammar School and was closed. Shortly thereafter a man by the name of Callahan tore the building down and used the lumber to build a blacksmith shop on the northside of Fifth Street between E and F Streets in Lincoln.