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  • Thumbnail for Stringtown, Boone County, Indiana
    Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 315. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...a row of houses or buildings strung along a road without a real...
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  • Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. A post office named Madrid opened... "Spencer County". Jim Forte...
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  • (https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake/page/253). ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. "The name is for the famous Seminole chief." McCafferty 2008, p. 144...
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  • Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 331. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...when Utah was being organized as a territory. 39°03′39″N 84°53′53″W...
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  • Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. This village was laid out around 1889... 38°58′08″N 87°06′32″W /...
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  •  This village was named for a local stream, Beehunter Creek... ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. 63 38°57′22″N 87°07′16″W / 38.95616°N 87.12112°W / 38.95616; -87...
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  • Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...named for William Sponsler, who owned land here when a railroad...
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  • Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 330. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...named for Union Township, in which it is located. 41°29′03″N 86°38′23″W...
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  • Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...supposedly named for a man named Hunter who was instrumental in...
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  • Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...with William A. McCoy as postmaster. 39°19′23″N 85°24′52″W /...
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  • Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 320. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...John Riley Tanner, Republican governor of Illinois... "Greene...
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  • Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. This village was platted on October 15, 1867... 38°19′34″N 86°10′16″W...
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  • Thumbnail for Ari, Indiana
    Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. was established in Noble County on January 29, 1872... "Allen County"...
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  • Place Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...presumably for Abraham Birchem, a settler there... v t e...
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  • Thumbnail for Arda, Indiana
    Place Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...may come from the Arda River in Bulgaria or Italy. v t e...
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  • Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...established as a switching station on the Monon Railroad. 38°54′35″N...
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  • Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...chosen by French Huguenot settlers for the French city. 38°49′27″N...
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  • Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...named for the foreman of a railroad crew. Daniels, E. D. (1904)...
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  • Thumbnail for Sylvania, Indiana
    Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 318. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. This village was platted in 1836. "Parke County". Jim Forte Postal...
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  • Thumbnail for Koleen, Indiana
    Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. because kaolin clay, used in making pottery, was mined here. "Greene...
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