Danielsville is a city in Madison County, Georgia, United States. The population was 654 at the 2020 census, up from 560 in 2010. The city is the county chair of Madison County.

Danielsville was named for General Allen Daniel (1772-1836), major-general of the Fourth Division of Georgia Militia 1812-17 and both state senator and representative from Elbert and Madison counties. He was Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1822. His daddy was at one become old thought to be a Captain Allen Daniel of Virginia, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, but this has been disproved. In 1812, Danielsville was designated chair of the newly formed Madison County. Danielsville was incorporated as a town in 1817 and as a city in 1908.

On April 11, 1936, a 45-year-old Black father of eleven children, called Lent Shaw in newspaper accounts as his pronounce is misspelled in court documents, was arrested by Madison County police and taken to the county jail in Danielsville. His accuser, a white woman aged 22, alleged that Shaw was the man who had attacked her on April 10. Shaw claimed that he was at home at the get older of the alleged attack.

By late evening, word had expand of Shaw’s arrest, and a mob of not quite 150 white county residents gathered at the jail, demanding Shaw be released to them. Sheriff T. L. Henley tried to crack up the mob unsuccessfully. The mob began prying apart the brick wall of the jail when 74-year-old pronounce Berry Mosely, who had been confined to bed taking into account an illness, arrived and began talking down the mob. In the meantime, the county sheriff began rounding going on deputies and called in understandable National Guard soldiers. Judge Mosely ordered the sheriff to accept Shaw to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. When the National Guard soldiers arrived, they backed a truck in the works to the jail and sped away to Athens back the mob could react. No one was extremely injured in the incident, but the damaged jail had to be repaired. During transit, Shaw allegedly assaulted police officers escorting him, and the police responded by shooting him three times.