Hamrick Station
Hamrick Station was a small community in Washington Township about five miles south of Greencastle on the Manhattan Road. One of the...
Greencastle Junction and Limedale
As we can see by the detail map in the 1879 Putnam County Atlas, the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad and the Louisville, New Albany &...
Groveland
I am going to jump from Hanna's Crossing to Groveland. Malcolm Romine is in the process of writing an excellent book on the Bainbridge...
Hanna's Crossing
Hanna’s Crossing was a collection of homes in Monroe Township where sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 meets. This community was four miles west of...
Morton
Morton is a small community in northeast Clinton Township, at the intersection of Sections 2, 3, 10 and 11. Malcolm Romine prepared a...
Pisgah
Mt. Pisgah (typically pronounced PISS-key) was a small community north of Portland Mills and south of Russellville, near the Putnam/Parke...
Brief history of Cairo in Russell Township
Brief history of Cairo in Russell Township As county road 1100N goes west from US 231 north of Fincastle, it intersects with county road...
Wheaton
Let’s move a few miles west of Fort Red/Barnard to the community of Wheaton. Located about a quarter of a mile north of what is now U. S....
Barnard
Over the next several weeks we will be posting information from some of the small, and often long-gone, communities throughout the...
Oakalla
Oakalla was a stop on what is now the Big Four Railroad a few miles west of Greencastle in Madison Township. Marked as Oakalla Station...