Bowen's Indiana state atlas, containing a separate map of each county, showing section, township and range lines, railroad and interurban lines, churches and school houses and public highways, with a historical sketch of each county; improved roads shown in colors; also containing maps of Indiana, the United States and the world; population of counties, townships, incorporated cities and towns, with estimated population for 1920; geographical and other tables; a history of the growth of the state, and an explanation of the system of land surveys, Part 5

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Publication date: 1917
Publisher: Indianapolis, B. F. Bowen & co., 1917.
Number of Pages: 239


USA > Indiana > Bowen's Indiana state atlas, containing a separate map of each county, showing section, township and range lines, railroad and interurban lines, churches and school houses and public highways, with a historical sketch of each county; improved roads shown in colors; also containing maps of Indiana, the United States and the world; population of counties, townships, incorporated cities and towns, with estimated population for 1920; geographical and other tables; a history of the growth of the state, and an explanation of the system of land surveys > Part 5


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It would take more space than can be given to enumerate all of the hundreds of industries which find a home in Ft. Wayne. The 1910 census returned no less than 230 different manufacturing establishments of all kinds, the largest number being devoted to tobacco. The other industries represented were as follows: Bread and hakery products, carriages and wagons, confectionery, flour-mill and grist-mill products, foundries and machine shops, leather goods, lumber and timber products, marble and stone work, patent medicines and druggists' preparations, printing and publishing and a total of eighty-niue unclassified industries. The unrivalled loca- tiou of Ft. Wayne has brought it to the front as a manufacturing center and the future will undoubtedly show a still greater development of its industries.


The importance of the county seat as a manufacturing center has tended to discourage the growth of other urhan centers in the county. The other towns and villages in the county are Arcola, Huntertown, Adams, Maples, Monroeville, Edger- tou, Chamberlain, Aboite, Sheldon, Hoagland, New Haven, Woodhurn, Dawkins, aud a few others not located on a railroad or interurban line.


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Whitley county, named in honor of Col. W. Whitley, a noted politician of early Indiana, was organized January 29, 1839, with its county seat at Columbia City. The county joins Allen county on the west and most of its 216,320 acres is excellent farming land. Some parts of the county were formerly swampy, but drainage has reclaimed the greater part of it. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $14,830,935. It has 85 schools, 125 teachers and 3,650 pupils. There are eight banks in the county. Its population in 1860 was 10,370 and it gradually increased until 1890, when it was credited with 17,768 inhabitants. It has been decreasing in population since 1890, the last census (1910) returning only 16,892 inhabitants.


Columbia City, the county seat, a city of 3,500, is located at the junction of the Vandalia and Pennsylvania railroads. It has one bank, two loan and trust companies, two newspapers and a number of important industries. Among its manufactured products are woolen goods, flour, canned goods, buggies, overalls, sealing wax, creamery products, beer and lumber.


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The unincorporated villages of the county are Qrmas, Hecla, Cresco, Collins, Raber, Peabody, Arnolds, Luther, Laud, Saturn, Collamar, Larwill, Tunker, Wyn- koop, Coesse and Dunfee.


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Fulton county, named in honor of Robert Fulton, of steamhoat fame, was organized February 4, 1836, with its county seat at Rochester. It lies in the basin of the Tippecanoe river and its 234,880 acres comprise some of the best farming land in the state. Much of the county was originally of a swampy character, but scientific drainage has brought. practically all of it under cultivation. Its assessed valuation in 1914 was $14,065,280. There are 77 schools, 144'teachers and 3,917 pupils. It has seven banks. The population of the county in 1860 was 9,422 and by 1910 this had increased to 16,879, its greatest population being recorded in 1900, when it had 17,453.


Rochester, the county seat, with a population of 3,400, is the largest town in the county. It is located at the junction of the C. & E. and L. E. & W. railroads, twenty-four miles northeast of Logansport. It has two banks, three newspapers and all the modern city improvements. The largest industry in the city is the bridge works, which, with a number of smaller industrial establishments, gives employment to a large number of men. Lake Manitou, a mile and a half from the city. is one of the most prominent summer resorts of the state and attracts hun- dreds of pleasure seekers annually.


Among the other towns in the county may be mentioned Tiosa, Athens. Kewanna, Fulton, Shawley, Bruce Lake, Germany, Leiter's Ford, Fletcher, Disko, DeLong and Richland Center. The Vandalia railroad passes through the western part of the county from north to south and the C. & O. runs through the southwestern part of the county. Kewanna being located at the junction of the two railroads. This town, with a population of 1,000, has two banks, a newspaper, three churches and is an important shipping point for live stock and grain.


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Pulaski county, named in honor of Count Pulaski, the Pole who fought with the colonies in the Revolutionary War, was organized February 18, 1840, with its county seat at Winamac. The county is drained by the Tippecanoe river and its tributaries and practically all of its land area of 276,480 acres has been brought under cultivation. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $9,603,355. It has 86 schools, 119 teachers and 3,277 pupils. There are seven banks in the county. The population of the county in 1860 was 5,711, and it showed a steady increase at each decade up to 1900, when it returned a population of 14,033. The 1910 census showed a slight falling off in growth, the returns showing only 13,312 inhabitants.


Winamac, the county seat, with a population of 1,700, is the largest towu in the county. It is located on the P., C., C. & St. L. railroad, 25 miles north- west of Logansport. It has two banks, three newspapers, excellent schools and five churches. The industries include a saw mill, flouring mill, canning factory and marble works.


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Jasper county, named in honor of Sergeant Jasper of Revolutionary War fame, was organized February 17, 1838, with its first county seat at Parish Grove, thirty miles south of the present seat of justice, and five miles southwest of Fowler, the county seat of Beuton county. The land area of the county is 359,680 acres, and a large part of it was originally very swampy. hut scientific draining lias reclaimed most of the land and converted it into one of the best farming dis- tricts of the state. The assessed valuation in 1914 was $12.906,916. The county has five banks. There are 100 schools, 130 teachers and 3,396 pupils. The population in 1860 was only 4,291, but by 1900 this had increased to 14,292. The following decade showed a decrease of more than 1,000, the 1910 census returning a population of only 13,0-14.


Rensselaer, the present county seat. was chosen as the seat of justice in 1839. It is on the C., I. & L. railroad, forty-five miles northwest of Logansport. It has three hanks, two newspapers, three school buildings, five churches and a number of small industries. It is the seat of St. Joseph's College, a Catholic institution of learning, which enrolls several hundred students annually.


Remington, a town of about 1,000, is in the southern part of the county on the P., C., C. & St. L. railroad, twelve miles south of the county seat. It has one hank,a weekly newspaper, five churches, a good public school building and is a thriving trading center.


Wheatfield is the only other incorporated town in the county. It is located at the junction of the C., I. & S. aud C. & E. I. railroads ahout twenty-five miles north of Rensselaer. It supports a bank and weekly newspaper.


Other towns and villages in the county include Tefft, McCoysburg, Pleasant Ridge, Collegeville, Lewiston, Gifford, Asphaltum, Stoutsburg, Kersey, Fair Oaks, Virgil, Zadoc, Parr, Demotte and Surrey.


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Newton county, named in honor of Sir Isaac Newton, was the last county in the state to be organized. It was created by the Legislature in 1839, but its popu- lation was so sparse that the succeeding Legislature consolidated it with Jasper, no county organization having been perfected. The county commissioners of Jasper county formally set it off as a separate county by an order dated December 9, 1859, with its first county seat at Kent. The county lies in the Kankakee region and originally nearly all of the county was too swampy to permit of agriculture, Very little of its 259,200 acres being suitable for farming .. However, 'scientific drainage has reclaimed a large.part of the county and at the present time it con- tains as good farming land as may be found in the state. The county has 69 schools, 95 teachers and 2,619 pupils. There are eight banks. The assessed valu- . ation of the county in 1914 was $13,818,440. In 1860 the county only had a pop- ulation of 2,360, but its growth has been steady and in 1910 it returned a popu- Iation of 10,504.


Newton county has had several bitter county-seat fights, the towns of Moroc- co. Brook and Beaver City having made strenuous efforts at different times to secure the coveted honor. However, it has remained at Kent, later called Kent- land, where it was first established in 1859 upon the organization of the county. Kentland is in, the southwestern corner of the county, at the junction of the C., I. & S. and P., C., C. & St. L. railroads. It has two banks, two newspapers and four churches.


The other incorporated towns in the county are Goodland. Morocco, Brook and Mt. Ayr. Brook and Goodland are about the size of the county seat and are flourishing towns in the midst of rich agricultural districts. Brook is famous as the home of George Ade, one of the country's greatest humorists.


The unincorporated villages of the county include Thayer, Roselawn, Lake Village, Percy Junction, Foresman, Pembroke and Ade.


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Bentou county was organized January 4, 1840, and named in honor of Thomas H. Benton, United States senator from Missouri. The county has a land area of 261,120 acres, and practically all of the land in the county is available for cultivation. The county is largely prairie and as excellent farming land as may be found in the state. It is iuteresting to note that Yale University once owned a large tract of land in this county, its title being the result of a bequest of Henry W. Ellsworth, a graduate of Yale, and one of the largest land owners in the county. The taxable property in 1914 was $20,768,200. The county has 76 schools, 131 teachers and 2,508 pupils. There are 11 bauks in the county. The population in 1910 was 12,688, its population in 1860 being 2,809, only two other counties in the state having a less population in 1860-Newton and Starke.


The first county seat was at Oxford and it remained there until 1874, when, after a bitter fight, it was removed to Fowler, its present location. Fowler had a population of 1,491 in 1910. It is situated on the C., I., St. L. & C. railroad, about ninety miles northwest of Indianapolis. The town supports two banks, two news- papers, and five churches. There are no large manufacturing industries, but the town is an importaut shipping point for live stock, grain and garden produce. The L. E. & W. and the C. & E. I. railroads also traverse the county, but neither passes through the county seat.


Other towns of the county in addition to the county seat are Oxford, Wadena, Talbot, Boswell, Earl Park, Raub, Templeton, Swanington, Chase, Atkinson, Lochiel and Duunington.


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White county, named in honor of Isaac White, one of the heroes of the battle of Tippecanoe, was organized February 1, 1834, with Monticello as its county seat. It is largely in the valley of the Tippecanoe river aud is one of the richest agri- cultural sections of the state, very little of its land area of 324,480 acres being unfit for tillage. Its assessed valuation in 1914 was $15,501,560. It has 99 schools, 157 teachers and 4,330 pupils. There are 15 banks in the county. Its population in 1860 was 8,258; increased to 19,138 in 1900; dropped off to 17,602 in 1910.


Monticello, the county seat, a town of 2,500, is on the Monon and Pennsyl- vania railroads. It has four bauks, two newspapers, three school buildings and four churches. Its industries include a marble works, sewer pipe aud tile fac- tory, flouring mill and ice cream factory.


The other incorporated towns are Chalmers, Reynolds, Burnettsville, Monon, Brookston and Wolcott. Monon, a town of 1,300, has two banks, newspaper, three churches, fine school building, public library, electric lights and paved streets. Its industries include a brick factory, creamery, flouring mill and cement block works.


The unincorporated villages include Roundgrove, Badger, Seafield, Idaville, Guernsey, Rankin, Headlee, Buffalo, Lee and Sitka. Of these villages Idaville is the largest, having a population of 500. It has a bank, newspaper, five churches, basket factory, tile factory and flouring mill.


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