Listed below in the table are known cities, towns, villages and small burgs that usually were just a post office and maybe a country store and filling station, that either exist today in Grant County or used to exist.
I have not listed in the table, subdivisions, such as Brinker Heights, Shady Hills, Indian Hills, Brookhaven, Sunnycrest, Westwood, and Westlea. I am sure there are many more. These are ones I could think of around Marion. Other Grant County cities probably have these also. I have not listed old names of areas known around the city of Marion, such as Hunkie Hill in S.E. Marion, Johnstown in East Marion, Home Corner in South Marion, Possum Hollar in N.E. Marion and West Point in West Marion, also there was Bucktown, it was in West Marion around the area of the old Marion Malleable Iron Works factory on 9th street. I am sure there were many more nicknames for areas in Marion as well as other cities and towns in Grant County. Many places have nicknames that have come and gone, such as Haisley's Corner and Deeter's Salebarn. I'm sure there were many more to numerous to mention here. Below are settlements of the past and present. That is what this table is for.
because there was already a Monroe P.O. in the state. A tornado wiped it out in the 1950's and it was never rebuilt |
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Float/Jalapa | before it was incorporated and named Jalapa |
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First known as Cleopas |
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Miami County |
Old name of Converse was Xenia |
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Old Town |
because of flooding and renamed Matthews. Cumberland was near the river and is now referred to as "Old Town" |
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Located at the Rangeline Road (CR600E) and SR18 |
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and the plan was abandoned, but it did make a few maps. |
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who were early settlers in that area. |
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Located at CR525E & CR975S. |
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I have been told this was called Max's Friendly Corner but at one time was also owned by the Lee's of Dooville |
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before the Gas Boom in the 1890's. At SR22 & Garthwaite Road (CR300E). |
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Madison County |
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on SR18 near Grant/Blackford county line. Nothing there now except a few homes. |
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Float |
before it was incorporated and named Jalapa. |
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Washington and Pleasant |
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because of flooding and renamed Matthews. Cumberland was near the river and is now referred to as "Old Town" |
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because there was already a Monroe P.O. in the state. A tornado wiped it out in the 1950's and it was never rebuilt |
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Not much left except homes, a church, and cemetery by that name. Originally it was a Quaker Settlement. |
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Cumberland |
because of flooding and renamed Matthews. Cumberland was near the river and is now referred to as "Old Town" |
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Wiped out by the Palm Sunday tornado in the 1960's and not rebuilt. |
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Madison County |
First known as Independence |
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settled in 1843 by G.H. Rood. There was also a Roods School House, Roods Crossroads and at one time this area was even called Stringtown. A post office called Van Buren for the township in which it is located was established on July 10, 1872. The town now known as Van Buren was laid out in 1880. |
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First known as Cleopas. |
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in Washington Twp., with Skinner acting Postmaster. |
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where the Battleground Re-enactment now takes place. |
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settled in 1843 by G.H. Rood. There was also a Roods School House, Roods Crossroads and at one time this area was even called Stringtown. A post office called Van Buren for the township in which it is located was established on July 10, 1872. The town now known as Van Buren was laid out in 1880. |
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Once had a church, school, store and post office |
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Not much left except homes and cemetery. |
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Miami County |
Old name of Converse was Xenia |