Danforth may refer to:
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Danforth (surname) Danforth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Asa Danforth (1746–1818), American highway engineer of the Revolutionary War era
* Asa Danforth Jr. (1768–1821), Upper Canada highway engineer
* Charles Haskell Danforth (1833†...
Places
Canada
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Danforth Avenue
Danforth Avenue (informally also known as the Danforth) and Danforth Road are two historically-related arterial streets in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Danforth ''Avenue'' is an east-west street that begins in Old Toronto at the Prince Edward ...
, a thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario
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Toronto—Danforth
Toronto—Danforth (formerly Broadview—Greenwood) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. It lies to the east of Downtown Toronto. Its best-known MP was New ...
, an electoral district
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Toronto—Danforth (provincial electoral district)
Toronto—Danforth (formerly Broadview—Greenwood) is a provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. It lies to the east of Downtow ...
, a provincial electoral district in Ontario
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Danforth (electoral district)
Danforth was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario.
This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Toronto—Scarborough riding. It initially consi ...
, an abolished electoral district in Ontario
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Greektown, Toronto, or The Danforth, a Toronto neighbourhood
United States
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Danforth, Illinois
Danforth is a village in Danforth Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. The population was 604 at the 2010 census.
History
Danforth was laid out in 1872 when the railroad was extended to that point. It mainly started out with mos ...
, a village
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Danforth, Maine
Danforth is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The town was named for proprietor Thomas Danforth. The population was 587 at the 2020 census. The town contains the villages of Danforth and Eaton. East Grand High School is locat ...
, a town
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Danforth (CDP), Maine
Danforth is a census-designated place (CDP) and the primary village in the town of Danforth, Washington County, Maine, United States. It is in northernmost Washington County, in the northern part of the town of Danforth, and is bordered to the n ...
, the main village in the town
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Danforth, Missouri
Danforth is an unincorporated community in Adair County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
The community is on Missouri Route O 1.5 miles northwest of Novinger. Spring Creek
A spring creek is a type of free flowing river whose name derives from ...
, an unincorporated community
Other uses
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Danforth (anchor)
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal , used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ''ancora'', which itself comes from the Greek ἄγ ...
, a fluke-style anchor
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Danforth Avenue (HBLR station), a light rail station in Hudson County, New Jersey
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Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute, a technical school in Toronto, Canada
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Danforth Museum Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University (formerly Danforth Museum of Art) is a museum and school in Framingham, Massachusetts. It is part of Framingham State University.
History
The Danforth Museum Corporation was established on Augus ...
, an art museum and school in Framingham, Massachusetts
* Danforth, a
fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos
See also
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2018 Toronto shooting
The 2018 Toronto shooting, known locally as the Danforth shooting, was a mass shooting that occurred on Danforth Avenue in the Greektown neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the night of July 22, 2018. Faisal Hussain killed two people and ...
, also known as the Danforth Shooting
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Bloor–Danforth line, a subway line in Toronto
* Danforth's Road,
Asa Danforth Jr.
Asa Danforth Jr. (June 29, 1768 – c. 1818 to 1821) was one of the first citizens of Onondaga County, New York, when he arrived there with his father, Asa Danforth in 1788. Danforth incurred heavy debts speculating in land in New York State. ...
's early colonial road from eastern Toronto to the Trent River
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Danforth GO Station
Danforth GO Station is a railway station on GO Transit's Lakeshore East line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station is situated in the east end of Old Toronto, south west of the intersection of Main Street and Danforth Avenue. The station is a ...
, a Toronto station on the GO Transit commuter rail system
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is an independent, not-for-profit research institute dedicated to plant science located in the Creve Coeur community of Saint Louis County, Missouri, United States. It was founded in 1998 by William Henry ...
, a not-for-profit research institute based in St. Louis, Missouri
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Toronto—Danforth
Toronto—Danforth (formerly Broadview—Greenwood) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. It lies to the east of Downtown Toronto. Its best-known MP was New ...
, a federal and provincial electoral district
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