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Hartford City sports leagues include baseball, softball, soccer, and football. Indiana is known for its high school basketball, and Hartford City high schools have had their share of success in the state basketball tournament. Hartford City High School won 14 sectional and 3 regional tournaments in about 60 years of action.
Hartford Township is one of twelve townships in Adams County, Indiana. [2] At the 2020 census , [ 1 ] its population was 981, up from 872 at the 2010 census . [ 3 ]
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Historic Marker in Montpelier, Indiana 1876 map of Blackford County. Following thousands of years of varying cultures of indigenous peoples, the historic Miami and Delaware Indians (a.k.a. Lenape) are the first-recorded permanent settlers in the Blackford County area, living on the Godfroy Reserve after an 1818 treaty. [21]
[n 1] The designer was J. C. Johnson, who had been trained as a carpenter and joiner and became a self-taught architect; he won second place in the Indiana State Capitol design competition. The construction was done by Christian Boseker of Fort Wayne. It is built of red brick with stone ornamentation. [18] Map of Adams County
Its county seat is Hartford City, Indiana, which was briefly a boomtown because of the discovery of natural gas. Because of the natural gas and oil fields elsewhere in the county, the glassmaking industry thrived for about 30 years. Later in the 20th century, Hartford City was the national headquarters for Overhead Door Corporation for about 40 ...
Hartford City, Indiana, began in the late 1830s as a few log cabins clustered near a creek.The community became the county seat of Blackford County.Located in the north east-central portion of the state, the small farming community experienced a 15-year "boom" beginning in the late 1880s caused by the discovery of natural gas.
In its peak years, Hartford was a point on the stagecoach route from Madison to Aurora. [3] Before the flood of 1937 there were four mills, and a general store which opened up in 1978 and closed in the mid-1980s. A post office was established at Hartford in 1844, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1891. [4]