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From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History
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From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in and History
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From Needmore to Prosperity : Hoosier place names in folklore and history
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978-0-253-32866-3
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0253209552
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0253328667
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Indiana University Press
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[[Indiana University]] Press
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October 1995
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Baker
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...renamed Diamond for the coal, "black diamond"...
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...name is for local merchant Joseph Milligan.
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...platted in 1907 and supposedly named for the Canadian Klondike, noted for the Gold Rush of 1898...
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...named Bluff Creek, for a nearby stream of the same name...
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This village was named for a local stream, Beehunter Creek...
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This village was platted on July 25, 1902...
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...established as a switching station on the Monon Railroad.
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...named for the nearby stream of the same name.
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...and named for the city in Germany.
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The name is for Brigadier General Pleasant Adams Hackleman...
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...named for a local family.
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...called Slate Cut...
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...named for a local stream, Billy Creek, a variant of Williams Creek.
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Alexander Chamberlain...came here from the area around Rochester, New York...
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...established on the railroad north of Belleville.
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...and named for Hoosier politician William Cumback.
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This village was named for Noble Township...
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...and named for the township in which it is located.
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...originally called Fido.
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Formerly called Springfield, this village was laid out in 1844.
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A post office was established as Blue Grass...
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This village was founded in 1889 by John A. Norman...
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The name is for Preble Township...
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...probably named for Francis Marion...
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...changed to Toledo, for the Toledo Railroad...
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...this village was named for its location at the intersection of four townships bearing the names of four presidents...
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...was laid out on March 10, 1851...
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...and perhaps named after Corunna, Michigan...
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...platted it on March 6, 1834.
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...named for Andrew Purcell, on whose farm a railroad station was located.
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This village was platted in August 1923.
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The name is for the flower, though apparently it is commendatory rather than descriptive.
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One night, during the first year of its existence, a drunken cattle buyer at the inn jokingly remarked that the place reminded him of his hometown, Cincinnati, Ohio, on account of its high hills and abundance of good whiskey.
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...comes from the biblical city.
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This unique place name, probably for the personal name...
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...for the level terrain of the site.
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...perhaps for Pony Run...
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...named for the local Peerless quarry.
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This village, platted on August 11, 1856...
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...for Derby, Ireland, the home of his ancestors.
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The name of this village appears to be commendatory as well as descriptive.
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Otho C. Scarlet was the first postmaster...
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J. F. Wagoner was the first postmaster...
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...White River influenced its naming.
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...for the local Laswell family, but through a clerical error...
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...this village was founded about 1832...
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The village was laid out on May 16, 1855, and named Poston...
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...and named for an early settler named Ellis.
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...was named for the first postmaster, John B. Horton.
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...named for the capital of Austria...
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This village was named for nearby Lawrenceburg.
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...named for the nearby ridge of the same name.
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Apparently, the name was borrowed from the city of the same name in Mississippi...
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...named for the nearby summit of the same name.
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...named for Napoleon Bonaparte.
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This village was established about 1885...
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A variant name is Kilroy for a post office...
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This railroad station was named for nearby Midland.
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...its location near the center of Greene Township.
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...residents had a reputation for shrewd dealings...because a man traded horses...
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This village was platted in 1893...
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...changed to Arlington, for Arlington, Virginia...
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...and George Smith and named for Smith...
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...perhaps suggesting a Quaker influence...
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...named for the local Stone family.
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...was named for a local family.
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Settled in 1816 and laid out on September 29, 1837, this village first was called Jonesboro.
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A post office established as Nebraska on March 8, 1847, was changed to Alton on July 2, 1860...
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This community probably was named for its proximity to White River.
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Betty Dodd was the fourth postmaster.
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Thomas Plummer was an early resident of this county and member of the first board of county commissioners.
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During World War I, the name was changed to Pershing...
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...named for an outcrop of rock...
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Maumee is a form of the Native American word Me-ah-me, of which Miami is another form...
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...crosses the Monon railroad, was named for the local Hoffman family, instrumental in building a loading station for grain here.
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A post office called Coleboro...
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This community was named for James Oscar Wells...who developed it.
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The present name might be for the town in Maine.
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Originally this village was called Mill Grove, for a mill here. The village was surveyed in March 1835...
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...named for early landowner Josiah Lawrence.
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...and named for a railroad superintendent, General Nabb.
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James Swayzee owned land here.
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...was so named because of the abundance of wild, uncultivated land and forest...
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Incorporated in 1865, the town was named for Monroe Township, in which it is located.
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...and named for a spring in the village.
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The stream name is a translation of the Delaware name...
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...supposedly a coined name honoring General John Carr, an early settler...
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The village was laid out in 1830 as Herculaneum...
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...named because four county roads converged here with State Road 46.
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The village was platted...on April 9, 1853.
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...descriptive of williows that were abundant in a valley here.
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...descriptive of its location near the center of Butler Township...
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The railroad name was Rivare, from Antoine Rivare, a Native American...
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The post office changed to Uniontown on May 28, 1890...
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...on a high plateau, which accounts for its name.
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The village was named for Olive Township...
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...named for two nearby railroad tunnels, especially for the Big Tunnel, completed in 1857.
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Joseph S. White was the first postmaster...
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...a country store owned by the Wilson family, for whom it was named.
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This community perhaps was named for Everroad Lake, a nearby reservoir.
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...who named it for his home, Mount Airy, North Carolina.
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D. Pratt served as the second postmaster.
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According to an oral account, "very easygoing people" lived here...
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...was named for the nearby Old Victoria coal mine.
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Ernest H. C. Heusler was the first and only postmaster.
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...named for Tilghman A. Howard, soldier and politician...
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...Orestes, son of Agamemnon...
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William Michael was the first and only postmaster.
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The name probably is for a local family, as Mason M. Merriam...
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According to the WPA files, the village was named for Victoria Hanna, whose father was a local landowner.
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The name is subjectively descriptive.
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...and apparently was named for a gravel pit once here.
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A post office established as Slash on September 27, 1852...
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...platted on April 30, 1853, and named for Liber College, which was located here...
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...named for Redding Township, in which it is located.
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...named for the Swiss city.
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...Harlan Harvey, who lived here...
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...named for Leatherwood Branch.
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...was established as Wissel...
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This village was laid out in 1834...
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John A. Bullock was the first postmaster.
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The first postmaster was G. Hesse Runyan.
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...found in California dating from 1870 and most likely is a transfer.
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According to a local tradition, the village was named for a single oak tree...
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...Eli F. Rumble was the second postmaster.
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..after Worcester of the American Revolution.
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...station was locate on land belonging to R. Ritchie.
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For a time this stone was rated as pure marble.
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Apparently the name is for the tree.
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The post office serving this locale...was called Philanthropy...
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...as the village is located just west of Atherton.
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...chose Art for the name because it was short and easier to spell...
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...named for the county in which is located.
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Acme, suggesting "best," is a common commendatory name...
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...the name probably comes from a Sioux adverb meaning "on both sides".
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...and apparently named for the good wheat-growing land here...
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A post office called Gates...
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...the name is for a ford at a mill...
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...named for Saluda Township, in which it was located...
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...named for nearby Otter Creek...
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..sighted the island at dawn and shouted "Eureka," which became the name of the settlement.
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...named for local landowners.
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This village was laid out in 1819 by Adam Brinton and called Brintonville.
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...for its location on an Indian treaty line...
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Apparently the name is for the country.
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The name is for the Mohawk tribe.
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...town was [[plat]]ted about 1882.
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A post office established as Pikes Crossing...
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This town originally was called Leach...
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...with John Ragle as postmaster...
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...this town was named for the local Norton family.
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...named for the nearby Wyandotte caves.
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This village was platted in 1834...
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...and named for Lake Ontario.
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Glezon is the name of a family in the county...
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...named for the abundance of ferns growing here.
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...laid out on April 8, 1872 by A. D. Raub...
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This village was platted on January 8, 1881, and originally called Woodlawn.
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The name may come from the Belgium River, Velpe...
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...Calvin Barnard, on whose farm it was established.
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This village was laid out in 1851...
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...and called New Prospect...
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This village was laid out on January 20, 1887, by H. Knieman...
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John V. Grant was the third postmaster.
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...because it was a livestock shipping point.
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...for Quakers who settled here.
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Apparently, the name is commendatory.
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This town was named for Joseph Bruner, who laid it out in 1837.
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..along the railroad about a mile northwest of Paris, for which it was named.
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This village was named for Flat Rock Creek, now Flatrock River.
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This village was platted around 1828.
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...in Eagle Township, for which it was named.
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...and named for General Joseph Warren of the American Revolution.
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...the name was changed to Buffaloville.
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This village, which dates from 1839...
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...named for its location in the Hoosier state.
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..had a store here and it was located where two roads crossed...
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This village was platted...in 1833...
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This village was established as a railroad station.
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This town was laid out on September 2, 1853...
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This village probably was named for the Mexican city captured by American troops...
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...for the last Aztec emperor of Mexico.
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...and probably named for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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The village was established around a church...
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More likely the name was borrowed from Texas.
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...was called Canal...
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This Sudanese place name...
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James Haskell, one of the early settlers...
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...possibly is a transfer name from New York.
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A lot of Ogilvies lived around there...
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The post office name was changed to Mineral...
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This village was laid out on June 4, 1837...
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...probably for Coloma, California...
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...and named for Mier, Mexico...
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...and James Coates opened a resort in 1867.
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The name is for Olean, New York...
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...consequently, Marysville, q.v., a Clay County community adjoining Lena on the south, also popularly was known as Lena.
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...it is generally believed that it comes from the location of the village, in the fruit belt.
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This village was settled in 1836.
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...was named for Erie Township...
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...the post office...was called Dan Webster.
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A post office called Kinzie was established...
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...by John P. Wales and named for his family.
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...it may have been borrowed from Alquines, France.
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A post office established as Philpotts Mills...was changed to Longwood.
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...apparently for the German principality, Waldeck-Pyrmont...
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This village was laid out on July 13, 1836...
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...apparently named for the ancient Greek philosopher...
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...some villagers have claimed that Peoga is a Native American word for "village"
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...name probably comes from the city in England.
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...platted it in 1839...
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A likely origin is that Solsberry is a phonetic spelling of Salisbury, an English town name...
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...the name was suggested by fog that often hangs over the village...
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...named for nearby Blue Lick Creek...
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...changed to Chestnut...
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...chapter of the National Grange.
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The village originally was called Hunters Creek...
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This village was laid out on March 30, 1833...
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...a former recreation area here on a reservoir, Twin Beach Lake.
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...Graham family, who settled here about 1823.
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...for the local Parker family, early settlers here.
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...because of the beautiful location of the place.
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...and named for German settlers.
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...and named for her maiden name, Donaldson.
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This village was named for Marrs Township...
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...called Logan, for the township in which it was located...
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Alexander Foster was the first postmaster...
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...by Mary Kimberlain, who lived in the county.
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This popular name commemorates the Battle of Buena Vista.
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...allegedly the name comes from a railroad conductor.
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...is for William H. Guion, a New York stockholder in the railroad...
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Jacob Spade was an early settler.
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...greenbackers who advocated paper money backed only by the U.S. government.
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...probably was named for the state in India.
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...was platted on February 25, 1893.
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The town is located in Etna Township, for which it was named.
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...supposedly named for a man named Hunter who was instrumental in founding the village.
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...which was named for George Cicott, a fur trader whose reserve was located here.
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This town was laid out in 1832...
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...supposedly was named for the quality of the soil here.
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...established as a railroad junction just east of Rockport...
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...name comes from the county in Ireland.
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...named it for his birthplace, Cortland, New York.
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probably named for James McDaniel, proprietor.
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This village, which bears the poetic name of Ireland...
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William Scales was the first postmaster.
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...changed to Oriole, for the bird...
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The current name comes from Perry Glendenning, the owner of the store.
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...named for the county...
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A post office established as Dallas...
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Emil H. Fritch was the first postmaster.
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A variant name is Mount Prospect for the post office...
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...for the city in Massachusetts.
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...with John O. Calvert as postmaster...
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...the village was platted in 1901...
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The name probably honors the American admiral Winfield Scott Schley...
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...and named for the Battle of Buena in the Mexican War.
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...probably for the river in Northern Europe...
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...named for Russell Township, in which it is located.
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...name is for Monroe Alton, proprietor.
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Apparently, this village was named for Elmira, New York.
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This community developed as a railroad station.
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The town was platted in 1912.
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This village, earlier called Roselle...
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...and Alfred C. Farr was the first postmaster.
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Apparently this village was named for the English town via Massachusetts.
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...named for Middle Fork Creek.
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Abraham S. Makin was the first postmaster.
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...William Cox, local miller...
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...named for the Hudson family, who were among the early settlers.
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...via Albion, New York, home of a county commissioner.
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This village was laid out on September 2, 1844, as Lynnville...
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...named for the nearby reservoir of the same name.
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This village was laid out on May 9, 1856...
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...town was platted in 1885.
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This village, also called North Landing, was founded in 1831...
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This Scottish place name...
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...named for Milo M. Sharp, first postmaster...
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...the name may be descriptive of a winding road with a Q-shaped turn...
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The village was laid out as Pleasantville in 1860...
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This village was platted on November 1, 1883...
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William M. Evans was the first postmaster.
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...for one of the early settlers, William K. Smith.
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...called Fox Station for resident Edward Fox.
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With the coming of the railroad in 1854, the population moved a mile south to the present town of Milan.
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...named for Jonathan Bowman, who settled this area...
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...developed as a station on the Indianapolis and Vincennes Railroad before 1876.
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According to the WPA files...was named for Samuel Nead, an early settler.
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...named the city for "Speedway Course"...
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...named for the local Thomas family.
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...are from women's names. A variant spelling is Abbey Dell.
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This village possibly was named for Yellow Creek.
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This village was named for its location on a ridge.
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...the settlement's location at the crossing of two roads.
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...for the region and former province in France.
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...Robert Tobin was the fourth postmaster.
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The name is for the famous Seminole chief.
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...and probably named for the nearby Mount Pleasant United Brethren Church.
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Supposedly the name, sometimes rendered as Balbee, is a misspelling of Baalbek...
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The name honors a local storekeeper named Farmer.
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The name is for two nearby lakes that resemble each other.
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...mineral water: it was supposedly magical...
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This village was [[plat]]ted on October 26, 1912...
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Ultimately this name is for the biblical mountain...
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...named for Pike County.
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...for his former home, Cobourg, Ontario.
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...named for pine trees at the site of the settlement.
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...founded in 1899 by Benjamin J. Gifford, and named for him.
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...was laid out in 1845 by Jonathan Cole...
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This community was named for Marion Township...
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...named for the town in New York.
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...may have derived its name from the Burr Oak school...
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...Robert Otwell Brown, son of Dr. Perry Brown, who laid out the village.
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...a row of houses or buildings strung along a road without a real center.
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...commendatory, meaning "good".
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...named for William Ellis, who donated land for a school here.
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William Jadden was the first postmaster.
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...apparently was named for a local coal mine.
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...changed to Noah on September 5, 1836...
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...on reclaimed marshlands, hence the name.
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...named for the local Hadley family.
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A variant name of this village is Cleona...
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This village was founded around 1845.
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A post office established as Bigrest on August 3, 1881...
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When the town was incorporated in 1865...
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This village was platted on May 16, 1870.
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This village was platted in 1904.
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...named for the Texas city...
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The name probably is for the Mexican seaport.
1
...was named for the local Knight family.
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The name is for the Heilman family...
1
...named for Corydon, Indiana.
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This city was platted on April 5, 1852.
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...Robert Bryant, a local pioneer farmer.
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...Apparently the town was named for the local Greendale Cemetery...
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According to local tradition, this village was named by Isaac Stillman in the 1820s...
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...locational, since the village is located in southern Milford Township.
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...A. C. Burdick, a lumber dealer...
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...name is for rich farmland in the area.
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...for Mary Magdalene...
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...Peoria is from the name of a subtribe of the Illinois tribe...
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According to a traditional accound, this village was named for two local families named Jewell.
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The present name is for the founder of Culver Military Academy, Henry Harrison Culver.
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This village was platted on September 7, 1881...
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...named for Carthage, North Carolina, home of Quaker settlers.
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McAdam Orr was the third postmaster, and Edgar J. Orr was the fourth...
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...since there was another town in Indiana with that name...was named for its location in Lawrence Township.
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This village was laid out in 1825 by Pinkney James...
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...named for the wife of a railroad official...
1
...was established on July 12, 1955, and named for the developers, Norman D. and Clara E. Flora.
1
a free place to load cargo.
1
...Bruce Lake, for which it was named.
1
Allen Woodruff was postmaster when the post office name was changed.
1
...the Doolittle family, who operated a mill.
1
A post office established as Penfield...
1
...Jeremiah Stiles, who settled here in 1823.
1
...with John Benham, Jr., as postmaster...
1
...was platted in 1892 and named for W.H. Lyford, vice president of the railroad built through here.
1
Apparently the present name is for the Philippine city.
1
...1861, and the town was laid out the same year...
1
...Daniel Hazelwood, who settled here in 1832.
1
Supposedly the name was formed from the Christian name of the first merchant, Benjamin Nugent.
1
...and named for James G. Blaine, presidential candidate...
1
Formerly the village was called Spien Kopj for the South African battle in the Boer War in 1900.
1
...William Kinder was an early settler.
1
...named for the Burney family...
1
...and named for the Cumberland Road, on which it was located.
1
...may be classical, though, for the traditional second king of Rome.
1
...named for a quarry of the same name...between two large hills and in a natural hollow.
1
...named for the local Saint Johns Church.
1
A post office established here as Cranberry on January 17, 1834...
1
...named for Manhattan Island, New York.
1
...class of coal found here.
1
...is for the abundance of spicebush growing in this area.
1
...laid out in 1901 and named for Beardstown, Illinois.
1
...large fields of clover, and the lovely shady dales.
1
...nearby lake of the same name.
1
...laid out in 1860 and named for Daniel Blocher, founder.
1
...named for the county in which it is located.
1
...village's location on high ground.
1
...named for the township in which it is located.
1
...the first postmaster was George W. Elrod.
1
...named for the biblical village...
1
...with Mary E. Hubbell as postmaster...
1
...laid out by Joseph Watson in 1850... Farmers Academy was established here...
1
...was named for the lake of the same name.
1
The name honors Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio.
1
German settlers named this village for Lippe, Germany.
1
...originally was called Huffmans Mills.
1
...was laid out by James Davis, for whom it was named.
1
...probably named for the Terry family...
1
...the second postmaster was William H. Baker, and the fourth postmaster was Anthony Baker.
1
..apparently named for the Belgian village....
1
The name apparently comes from the Mediterranean island...
1
...named for Union Township, in which it is located.
1
The village was platted on May 23 1903.
1
This village developed around a general store...
1
...platted on October 31, 1837, and was first called Union Village...
1
...and named for Captain James Dunn, who founded nearby Dunnington.
1
Locally, it is thought that the name is for the local Wegand family...
1
...named for the biblical seaport.
1
The name is for...Samuel Jones Tilden...
1
The name is for a local storekeeper named Sea...
1
...named for India, or a region of it.
1
This village, originally called Newberg, first was laid out in 1832...
1
This village was established around 1880...
1
This village was platted on March 30, 1837...
1
Hudnut and Company from Terre Haute bought a warehouse nearby...
1
In 1883 a railroad station was established here...
1
...settled in 1822 and platted in 1837.
1
...apparently for the city in North Africa...
1
...and named for Simeon Cory, pioneer hardware merchant...
1
...apparently it was named for the arctic region.
1
...apparently for Sitka, Alaska...
1
Minnie A. Lauer was the first and only postmaster.
1
This village was named for the nearby lake...
1
...as the village site was heavily wooded...
1
The village was laid out on October 23, 1889.
1
It was renamed Doans, for nearby Doans Creek...
1
...because it's the highest point...
1
The village was named for the Ross brothers...
1
This town was laid out in 1853...
1
Jacob Avery, a farmer, settled here...
1
...and called Arcadia.
1
According to WPA files, it was named for John Fayette, an early settler.
1
...named for the local Meltzer family...
1
This village was founded about 1897...
1
A post office was established as Lushers...
1
...named for the local Owens family.
1
It seems likely that the village was named for the stream...
1
...pleasant view and its location on a watershed divide.
1
...named for the township in which it was located...
1
...the fourth stanza of Thomas Moore's poem "The Meeting of the Waters."
1
...according to the WPA files, named for O. J. Mackey, local railroad owner.
1
...called Bruces Lake, for the nearby lake of the same name...
1
...named for the nearby bay of the same name.
1
...presumably named for the rich farmland surrounding it.
1
...named for Ida M. Henderson, who laid it out on August 1, 1890.
1
...who had a sawmill here in 1848.
1
A post office called Willis Grove was established...
1
The only postmasters here were Miles, Harry, and George Roland.
1
...appears to be a unique place name in the United States.
1
...a railroad and two roads intersected here.
1
This village was established as a railroad station...
1
This village was named for the stream of the same name...
1
...his wife with naming it for Greensburg, Pennsylvania...
1
The name may be for Henry West, the first postmaster.
1
...and named for Smith Peterson, a lawyer from nearby Decatur who obtained the right-of-way...
1
A post office was established as Smootsdell, for John Smoot, on April 17, 1868.
1
...name from the rows of sycamore trees...
1
...named for the Kercheval family, prominent in the early history...
1
David F. Kennedy was the second postmaster.
1
This village was established around 1839...
1
...named for Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington.
1
The local post office..was called Snyder...
1
Henry Stumke was the first postmaster.
1
The name of this village is locational...
1
...named for Greene County, Ohio, home of settlers.
1
...named by early settlers who discovered unclaimed land here...
1
...named for his hometown, Portland, Maine.
1
The village was platted on November 3, 1886.
1
...named for Round Grove Township, in which it is located.
1
"...apparently named for the Central American republic...
1
for Virgie Warner, daughter of one of the founders.
1
This village was platted on February 10, 1870...
1
...named for London, England.
1
This village was platted in 1871...
1
...platted in 1903 by the Brazil Block Coal Company.
1
A popular spa was once here...
1
...may have been named for the town in Ireland, perhaps via Pennsylvania.
1
A mill was established here near a rocky gorge, which inspired the name...
1
...was named for nearby Yellow Bank Creek.
1
Byrd E. Williams became postmaster in 1900.
1
Apparently the name is for Fincastle, Virginia, or for the old county of Fincastle...
1
This village originally was called Armery...platted it in 1886.
1
...named for the pleasant view and its location...
1
...by the Carbon Coal Company, which was so named for the coal here.
1
This town was named for Joseph A. Grabill...
1
...this village was named for local storekeeper Merritt Hubbell...
1
...Maxwell in honor of a man involved in building the railroad through here.
1
...south of Peru on the south side of the Wabash River.
1
...a compromise between advocates of the names Garfield and Hancock.
1
John Sunman was the first postmaster...
1
...a town in Italy where Napoleon won a victory over the Austrians in 1796.
1
Mount Olive, from the biblical Mount of Olives, is a common name for churches...
1
This town was platted...by Peter S. Veeder...
1
...and named for a railroad construction superintendent.
1
The name is probaby plural of Arcanum, "hidden," suggesting "secluded"...
1
Supposedly the name is French and means "The Crossing," descriptive of the location of the town at the junction...
1
This village was platted on December 12, 1850, as Tippecanoe Town...
1
...and named for nearby Nineveh Creek.
1
...became Pleasant Mills because the only gristmill in the area was located here.
1
....named for Little Pigeon Creek...
1
The name honors W. S. Speed, who owned a local cement plant.
1
...was platted on July 27, 1853.
1
...probably named for the borough in New York City...
1
...whose name was Lucretia or Crete.
1
...possibly was borrowed from Celina, Ohio.
1
Lochiel is the title of the Camerons.
1
...named for early settler and cofounder Peter Miller.
1
...the name was borrowed from Lowell, Massachusetts.
1
Probably the name is for the city in Scotland.
1
A post office called Tarkeo was established...
1
...and named for John Spencer, brother-in-law of Reuben J. Dawson, who platted...
1
...and probably named for Memphis, Tennessee, since early settlers came from that area.
1
...named for a nearby stream, Trail Creek.
1
...laid out and incorporated on May 8, 1927, and so named, according to WPA files, because crows nested in a tree here.
1
This town was platted in 1847 by John Everhart...
1
...usually indicates a German settlement...
1
because kaolin clay, used in making pottery, was mined here.
1
...apparently for the city in Georgia.
1
...reminded English settlers of the cliffs of Dover, England.
1
...and named for the black oak timber...
1
...name is descriptive of the area's "beautiful land".
1
A post office called Rodmans...
1
...like the township it is in, was named for John Hack...
1
...for an iron furnace that was located near Richland Creek...
1
...and named for the coal here...
1
R. Reagan settled in this area in 1830.
1
...the name probably honors David Butler, an early settler...
1
...probably named for Syracuse, New York.
1
...a mill built at a ford here.
1
...probably celebrates the large pumpkin crops grown here...
1
This village was named for the daughter of John Lyman Morgan...
1
...laid out in 1873 by the Southern Indiana Coal and Iron Company and formerly called Irondon for the iron industry...
1
This village was laid out around 1889...
1
...the ancient Greek district...
1
...named for a large beech grove here...
1
...more likely it is for the county in Wales, perhaps via Pennsylvania.
1
Established about 1831...
1
...founded at Zoar, Ohio in 1817.
1
This village was established as a coal mining community...
1
The village was named for William Elkins, first settler and founder.
1
...laid out by General Motors Corporation as a residential area west of Anderson in 1916...
1
...named for the local Teegarden family...
1
...named for the spring-fed stream that powered the mill.
1
...supposedly for a salt lick here in pioneer days.
1
...and named for the local McCord family, who had a store here.
1
This subdivision was established on August 1, 1955...
1
This village was platted on November 16, 1843...
1
The village was platted on May 12, 1883...
1
The name honors W. J. Atkinson, a prominent cattleman...
1
...perhaps named for the Italian city and lake.
1
...probably named for Charlottesville, Virginia...
1
This community must have been established after 1900...
1
The name is for the biblical region.
1
...laid out on February 2, 1826, and so named for its location on a crossroads...
1
The official name, Cornelius, honoring an early settler...
1
Formerly called Oregon, this village was laid out in 1839.
1
...named for its location in Locke Township...
1
Piatt also was a local family name.
1
...August H. Herbst, the first storekeeper and postmaster...
1
A pin stuck in the book fell on the word Zulu on a page about Africa.
1
The name probably comes from the city...in Ohio.
1
...for the Jordan family, early settlers.
1
The name is commendatory.
1
A post office called Mud Lick was established...
1
...man named Little who owned a deep shaft coal mine here.
1
According to a local legend, it was named by Lou Goodman..."who said the people were always needing more bread and meat than they had."
1
...may come from the Arda River in Bulgaria or Italy.
1
The name comes from the local Beck family.
1
...and Netwon Stewart is a Scottish place name.
1
...and named for Captain James Dunn...
1
This settlement was named for a nearby range.
1
The name ultimately comes from the Indian tribe...
1
...named for Stephen Sparks, who established a ferry...
1
...laid out in 1840...and named for Jay County.
1
This village was laid out in 1869...
1
...because it is located on high ground...
1
...the name is for John Wickliffe (or Wycliffe), English religious reformer...
1
Philip Hendricks was an early settler.
1
A post office called Progress...
1
...from the ancient name of Britain.
1
A post office, named for Robert Wakefield...
1
...sprang up in the early 1900s near the Geiberson stone quarry.
1
The town probably was named for the Anthony family...who registered land in this county in the 1830s.
1
...was platted in 1924.
1
This village wasfounded around 1869...
1
...with William A. McCoy as postmaster.
1
...comes from the city in Peru, South America.
1
...is descriptive, as the locale was both stony and lonesome.
1
...was named for Concord Township.
1
A post office named Madrid opened...
1
...there were a lot of badgers in a grove...
1
Samuel P. Yenne was the postmaster at Shoals...
1
...named for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1
...named for a pioneer miller, John Dolan.
1
...so perhaps the name is a transfer from Belgium via Ohio...
1
Henry W. Geeting was the first postmaster.
1
According to WPA files, Radley was the name of Elliot's father-in-law.
1
Henry Weaver owned the first store here, and John H. Weaver was the second postmaster.
1
...said he was surprised the village got a railroad through it and was surprised the village got a post office...
1
...was named for the West Fork of the Little Blue River...
1
This village was surveyed in 1833...
1
Thompson Oliver was the first postmaster, and Kisiah Oliver was the second...
1
The name is for an early settler, William Wirt.
1
...named this unincorporated village for a railroad official.
1
The name was borrowed from Asheboro, North Carolina.
1
...apparently for the tree...
1
This village was platted in 1855...
1
...was named for Logan Creek...
1
This village was laid out on January 8, 1882...
1
.The name honors Charles Dana, a stockholder...
1
...on the railroad west of Saint Louis (now Old Saint Louis) for which it was named.
1
...because everybody was short of spondulix [cash].
1
This village was platted on June 17, 1868, and named for Andrew Powers, Jr., who laid out the town.
1
The name is for York Township...
1
..was the former name of Tokyo.
1
...probably named for the Russian city.
1
...and the village was named for Bud Vandivier, son of the first merchant, Madison Vandivier.
1
This town was settled in 1830 by a Moravian congregation from North Carolina...
1
The name comes from the French word ''amitié'', "friendship".
1
The present name comes from the British naval victory...
1
...named it for Adoniram Judson, a Kentucky minister...
1
This town was laid out in 1872 by John Flora...
1
...named for Samuel Ball, who platted the village on May 15, 1848.
1
...by Dr. A.W. Knight of nearby Brazil on land owned by him...
1
...usually honors the American general Jesse Lee Reno...
1
The present name is for Gardner's home.
1
...and named after Little Eagle Creek.
1
.settled this village that developed around their church...
1
This village was [[plat]]ted in 1845 by Brice Burns...
1
According to the WPA files, the railroad shortened the name to Lizton.
1
...and named for Thomas Hart Benton, senator from Missouri.
1
A post office named Cavender...
1
Charles Hartley named this village for himself.
1
This village was named for John Helms, an early settler.
1
This village was named for extremely sandy soil...
1
...and named for an engineer named Kurtz who assisted in building the railroad...
1
...named for Raleigh, North Carolina...
1
This village was laid out in 1880 and called Lockridge...
1
...where it sometimes honors Colonel William Christian, who was killed by Indians in Kentucky in 1796.
1
...railroad station about a mile southeast of Roanoke, for which it was named.
1
...and named for New Bern, North Carolina, Davis's home.
1
...by William Reed, who served as the first postmaster.
1
...with George O. Day as postmaster...
1
...because it is the highest spot in that area.
1
The name is for Posey County.
1
Slabs, some of them used to build roads, were cut at the local sawmill...
1
...and supposedly named for Ben Davis, an official with the Vandalia Railroad.
1
The name may be for the tulip, or yellow poplar, tree rather than for the flower...
1
...probably was named for Boston, Massachusetts.
1
...chosen by French Huguenot settlers for the French city.
1
...and named for LaGrange County.
1
...comes from the seaport in Asia Minor...
1
...named for Civil War veteran Colonel Riddle...
1
Allegedly James Oliphant named this village for his hometown, Unionville, Pennsylvania.
1
...called High Banks, descriptive of the village's location on the high banks...
1
A post office named Pond Creek Mills, for Pond Creek...
1
A post office called Blue Creek...
1
This village was platted in 1854.
1
The village of Bethany, established in 1955...
1
...first called Needhams Station...
1
The name honors Congressman Mark L. DeMotte...
1
The name is for a church around which the village was built.
1
This village, earlier called Elizabethtown...
1
They named it Point Commerce because two proposed canals...were supposed to join here...
1
...named for Judge Willis Hayes, who bout acreage here in 1818 and donated land to the village.
1
...probably via New Paris, Ohio...
1
...and named for Wash Rice...
1
...suggested changing the name to Wakarusa for a stream or a place in Kansas, where he had once lived.
1
This village was platted on October 27, 1846...
1
The stream received its name from a rich coal bank discovered near its mouth.
1
...was platted in 1837 and first called Carroll, for Carroll County. A post office called Carrol...
1
...and perhaps named for Otisco Lake in New York.
1
...Mahlon W. Marshall, who donated land for a railroad station here.
1
...the Goshen of the Scriptures.
1
...so named because it is near the center of Green Township.
1
...this village was platted on March 25, 1859...
1
George T. Survant was the fifth postmaster.
1
...apparently named for the northern European region...
1
...named for the nearby Chain O'Lakes (Bass Lake and Chain Lake).
1
...was platted on June 4, 1904.
1
This village was laid out on April 15, 1882...
1
...south of Washington, for which it was named.
1
This village was laid out on November 5, 1869...
1
Charles Seybert was the first postmaster.
1
...named for a nearby stream, Popcorn Creek.
1
...named for the Indiana Dunes.
1
...a nearby stream of the same name.
1
Apparently the name is a transfer, probably from Santa Fe, New Mexico, taken by U.S. trooops...
1
...named for its location west of Clinton.
1
This village was platted in 1836.
1
...apparently named for its location on a small hill...
1
This village was platted in 1838...
1
...and named for Glendale, Ohio.
1
...by William Spears, and named for him.
1
Everyone called the lamp a new star...
1
The name is for Laughery Creek via Laughery Township...
1
...and named for John F. Card, then president of the company.
1
...the village was named for its location in a valley.
1
This village was settled around 1830...
1
...naming it West Baden for the famous spa in Germany.
1
...laid out this village in September 1830...
1
...named for the local Pierce family...
1
...with David Aistin as postmaster and presumably named for him.
1
...coined from Rose's last name and Lon Craig's first name.
1
...called Palestine for the biblical region.
1
...with Allen W. Lett as postmaster...
1
...established as Kimberlin ...was changed to Terhune...
1
This village was laid out on December 30, 1873, and called Pleasant Hill.
1
The village was named for a local landowner, Simon P. Chase.
1
...named for a local family...
1
A post office called Cornucopia was established here...
1
This village was laid out in February 1857...
1
...White Rose mine, for which it was named...
1
The present name, for Denver, Colorado,...
1
Formerly called Cabot, this village was settled in 1811..
1
...and named for Antoine Freeland, who owned the land.
1
...apparently named for the Asian country...
1
...apparently for the lake or city in Switzerland.
1
This village, founded in 1898, was named for a local family.
1
...apparently named for the state.
1
The name is for the township in which the village is located.
1
William Poling was appointed postmaster.
1
This community, incorporated in 1929...
1
The village, also first called Herod, was platted on October 11, 1849.
1
...on the site of a large beaver dam, on a creek of the same name.
1
...named for Waterloo Township, in which it was located...
1
This village, first called New Bargersville, was named for Old Bargersville, q.v., formerly called Bargersville, too. It was founded in 1906 when a railroad came through here.
1
The name is for Saint Thomas Church...
1
...for the local Randall family...
1
...for Dr. James Cooper's horse, Rapture.
1
...and named for Lyman Barce.
1
Probably the name comes from the county in Scotland.
1
The community was named for four nearby reservoirs: Princes East Lake...
1
...but more likely the village was named for Bowling Green, Virginia...
1
...and named for nearby Graham Farms.
1
...supposedly for oak groves on the town site.
1
The name comes from the village's location near the center...
1
The name is locational, for the village is located in southern part of Martin County.
1
...named for the lake of the same name, which was named for Alma Creek.
1
...named for the local Lett family...
1
..laid out about 1832...
1
This village was named for the Mount Sinai Methodist Episcopal Church...
1
...he envisioned a model community composed of mechanics, miners, and laborers.
1
..name comes from the stream Cedar Creek...
1
This community was named for the local Bogle family.
1
...named for the local Chapel Hill Methodist Church.
1
186
1
...and other families from Scotland settled near one another here.
1
The name honors a local family.
1
...and named for Hiram Rain, who had a sawmill here.
1
This village was platted in 1833 and first named Georgetown...
1
...named for the local Pelzer family.
1
Hibernia, the literary name of Ireland.
1
This village was named for Jacob Brewer, who laid it out on September 1, 1837.
1
When Brookville Reservoir was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the village of Fairfield was razed, and this relocated village...
1
...apparently named for the country in North Africa...
1
...named for them: Eller, Whaley, Baker, and Breeden.
1
Locally it is thought that the present name is for the rocky soil here.
1
...this village was named for nearby Stone Mill.
1
According to the WPA files, Andrew Gudgel settled here...
1
...established on April 6, 1866, closed on July 5, 1876.
1
...apparently was named for the French city Aix, or Aix-en-Provence.
1
This village was platted in 1882...
1
...by H. Patton, for whom the village was named.
1
This town was named for Fulton County...
1
A variant name, DeKalb, for the county, was given to a post office...
1
...named for Samuel Campbell, who owned the first store here.
1
Apparently the name is for the local Jordan family.
1
...called Otto, for Judge Otto...
1
The name is for William Windom, secretary of the treasury...
1
...allegedly was for the engineer of the first train...
1
...honors the Gowdy family.
1
...and the town was platted on September 29, 1880.
1
...called Newville for its location in Newville Township.
1
A post office was established as Butlers Switch...
1
The village developed as a railroad junction near Auburn, for which it was named.
1
...called Deer Creek, for the nearby stream of the same name...
1
A post office called French was established here...
1
...probably the highest place in northern Indiana, and therefore given its present name.
1
...this village was established in 1900 and named for the local Gilmour family.
1
Edward H. Taylor was the second postmaster, and John Taylor, Sr., was the sixth...
1
...named for the local Rider family...
1
...with John B. Mellott as postmaster...
1
This village was platted on October 15, 1867...
1
...by George E. Adams, and named for him.
1
A local steam sawmill gave the village its name.
1
..the Kriete family, who owned a grocery store here.
1
...before the village was laid out...on March 12, 1830.
1
...come from the local Bell family and the church they attended, Union Valley Baptist Church.
1
...laid out by Warden C. Lett...
1
...now is called Old Bargersville to distinguish it...
1
...name apparently comes from the district in London, perhaps via Maine.
1
This village was platted on September 9, 1901...
1
This village was settled around 1816...
1
...on land owned by George Stearley.
1
...Marengo, after one of Napoleon's great victories...
1
A post office called Grass was established...
1
W.H. Sleeth donated land to the village.
1
...this village was established about 1860.
1
...and named for Perth, Scotland, birthplace of his ancestors.
1
Formerly called Randolph Station, this village was laid out first in 1836...
1
...named for Worthington, Ohio...
1
...Dubois, for the county in which it located...
1
Daniel Dixon, the proprietor, laid out this village...
1
...platted on February 10, 1838, and named by settlers from Kentucky for the capital of their native state.
1
...named for the local Switz family...
1
...originally was a Native American stream name meaning "river of corn."
1
...Roy Gatchell, who ran the post office in his house, but post office records do not list any postmaster with that name.
1
...slightly elevated land of the townsite...
1
...and named for Granville Hastings, who established two mills and a store here.
1
...the post office was changed to Harris...
1
...Bath, for the township in which it is located...
1
This town was platted on February 22, 1851, and originally called Hunts Cross Roads...
1
...was named for a local pioneer family.
1
...named for the local Klaas family. An early German settler was H. Klaas...
1
A post office called Kennedy...
1
This village was laid out in 1852...
1
The name of this town...is descriptive...
1
...so it was in the news when the post office was named Alaska.
1
...named for the local Rex family.
1
...for it is located southwest of Goshen...
1
...Wanatah, for an Indian chief...
1
The present name is for Washington Township...
1
...platted as Saint Bernice on August 18, 1905.
1
...Sedan, apparently for the French city...
1
Probably the name is for Sir Walter Scott's popular Waverly novels...
1
...and possibly was named for the English town...
1
A post office called Linn was established on September 5, 1848...
1
...was called Cuba, apparently for the island...
1
The name comes from Menton, a city on the Mediterranean in France...
1
...suggested naming the village for Tangier, Morocco.
1
for a local resident, General Acton
1
...called Orange, for the township in which it was located...
1
This village supposedly was named for General George Rogers Clark.
1
...renamed for Huron, Ohio, by settlers...
1
It was named for William Freeman Vilas...
1
...presumably for Abraham Birchem, a settler there...
1
...named for the English county...
1
The name probably honors Joseph D. Handy...
1
...local Stalcup family. William Thatcher Stalcup was a landowner here in the 1820s.
1
...the town was laid out in 1882 by local storekeeper William Landess...
1
...John Riley Tanner, Republican governor of Illinois...
1
Louise Hardin was the first postmaster.
1
This village was laid out in 1868...
1
...thought to be a good location for a mining town.
1
...perhaps for industrialist Washington C. DePauw...
1
...when Utah was being organized as a territory.
1
This village was laid out in 1836 by John McHaley, who first called it Haleysville...
1
...probably for Albert S. White...
1
Alfred McCoy owned land here.
1
...supposedly named for Lord Byron...
1
The name, borrowed from the lake in New York...
1
...and named for a nearby stream...
1
...the township in which the village is located and for nearby falls.
1
Allegedly the village was named for pleasant odors...
1
...so named because the site is the highest elevation along a road here.
1
The name comes from a local stream of the same name...
1
..for their hometown, the German city of the same name.
1
...probably was named for a local family.
1
...said that he had never seen a community that needed more, so the village was called Needmore.
1
This village was platted in 1863...
1
...name is for the nearby Flatrock River.
1
...the surrounding country resembled Topeka, Kansas.
1
This town was laid out on January 2, 1849...
1
...a man who operated a local grain business.
1
Around 1882 Judah School was built here...and the village took its name from the school.
1
...named for Zelma Fountain, one of Stephen Fountain's daughters.
1
...named for the local Kirby family.
1
Allegedly this commendatory name is for a large oak tree on the land...
1
This village, which also has been called simply Garden, was established in 1886...
1
This village was platted by Edwin J. Baldwin and named for him.
1
...renamed for the English town Falmouth...
1
.....settled here in 1824 and platted the town on June 30, 1829.
1
...named for Judge Hanna of Fort Wayne, who was involved in bringing the railroad here.
1
...received its present name for Colonel Bringhurst of Logansport.
1
The name was formed from the name of the proprietor, Joseph Freeland...
1
This village was founded around 1818...
1
The name comes from the Latin name of Wales...
1
Another village called Fountainville was platted ... In June 1900 the two villages were incorporated as Kingman.
1
This village was first settled in 1828.
1
...name is for the castle in England.
1
...named for the foreman of a railroad crew.
1
...named for the local Ray family...
1
..named for the Scottish outlaw Rob Roy...
1
Apparently the name is for the Marquis de Lafayette.
1
...named for the Prather family who owned a store here...
1
...on the Wabash and Erie Canal and named for the locks here.
1
This town was laid out by Perry Hosbrook...on April 6, 1849.
1
This village was named for Milan Township, which was established in 1838...
1
The name comes from the fort in San Antonio, Texas.
1
...for cofounder Noah Brooks.
1
...established on April 26, 1862; moved to nearby Saint Bernice...
1
...it was called Martz, apparently for...
1
...named for Sims Township, in which it is located...
1
...renamed for lawyer John B. Howe...
1
...the name is for a local family.
1
...closed on February 28, 1946.
1
The name comes from the local cement industry.
1
The name is for the township...
1
...apparently for the island in the Indian Ocean...
1
named for John Ade, first recorder of Newton County
1
...simply because it's short.
1
...the first letters of the names of six early settlers: Boyd, Roll, Oldham, McCoy, Ellis, and Reid
1
This village was laid out on December 20, 1837...
1
This village was laid out in 1900...
1
This village was named for Miller Payne, an early settler.
1
...apparently because of sympathy for the Mexican struggle for independence.
1
...which was named for the nearby Saint Joseph River...
1
...the name was changed to Staunton, for Staunton, Virginia.
1
...platted in March 1911...
1
A post office established as Moore's Station...
1
...named for the county in which it was located...
1
This village was platted on July 4, 1856, and first called Kirksville...
1
This village was named for the Holy Trinity Church, which was built here in 1861.
1
...sold his mill to a man named Bainter.
1
The name comes from Adams Township, in which it is located.
1
Purdy is a family name in Clay County...
1
...Mog-sin-kee-ki, "Big Stone Country."
1
A post office was established as Maxams...
1
This village was laid out in 1815...
1
Apparently the name was borrowed from Albany, New York.
1
...by Lewis Boyer, for whom it was named.
1
...who came here in the early 1860s.
1
...named for William Sponsler, who owned land here when a railroad stop...
1
...for the state and city in Germany...
1
...dates from 1928, when a gas station was established here.
1
Originally, this village was called Ennes...
1
...as the city is located east of Chicago...
1
This village was named for the nearby Hoosier coal mine.
1
...this German Catholic community was settled around 1846...
1
...and the town was platted on June 11, 1845, by Branham.
1
...named for its location.
1
The name is for a local family.
1
...named for Bristol, England...
1
...probably comes from the city in Portugal.
1
...named for a local spring that flowed through a large tree..
1
...probably named for James A. Garfield, who was elected president...
1
...named for Granville Moody, who founded it in 1893.
1
...Thayer was the name of an early resident.
1
...and named for the nearby Summit coal mine...
1
This village was established around 1906...
1
Possibly the name was borrowed from Avila, the Spanish city.
1
This village was platted in 1866 by George W. Syphens...
1
...was named for a church of the same name that was here...
1
...was platted on December 25, 1849.
1
This village, named for the Ottawa chief Pontiac...
1
...and named for Squire Joe Lyons, Bloomfield resident who held several county offices...
1
The name is for Royal Center, New York.
1
Here it supposedly remembers the manual skills of many early settlers...
1
Points based on comparison of each characteristics of the source with a median of each relevant characteristics of the TOP1000 corresponding sources In English Wikipedia:
| Characteristics | Median* |
|---|---|
| Completeness | 75 |
| Cited | 310 |
| All atributes instances | 2093 |
* - as of August 2016
