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In 1815, Quakers at Blue River established a monthly meeting at the Hicksite Friends Meeting House, located just east of Salem. [4] Coffin donated two acres for the building and a cemetery. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] While the church was being built, its members planned to build a school and created a committee of 24 people to look after and promote the ...
Versailles / v ər ˈ s eɪ l z / is a town in Johnson Township, Ripley County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [2] The population was 2,113 at the 2010 census . The town is the county seat of Ripley County.
The Laughery Creek Bridge aka Triple Whipple Bridge was built in 1878 and is the last triple-intersection Pratt truss bridge in the United States.. Laughery Creek is an 88.6-mile-long (142.6 km) [2] stream that flows through Ripley, Dearborn, and Ohio counties in southeastern Indiana, and is a tributary of the Ohio River.
The NHLs in Indiana comprise approximately 2% of the 1,656 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana as of December 2009. The landmarks are among the most important nationally recognized historic sites in the state; the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park is one other site that has high ...
Point Township is one of ten townships in Posey County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 306. [3] The lowest, the southernmost, and the westernmost points in Indiana are all located along the township's boundaries.
The county seat of Ripley County is Versailles, Indiana. It was selected as the county seat in 1818, and was laid out in 1819. According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 448.06 square miles (1,160.5 km 2), of which 446.43 square miles (1,156.2 km 2) (or 99.64%) is land and 1.64 square miles (4.2 km 2) (or 0.37%) is water.
St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan) Elkhart River; Little Elkhart River; Pigeon River; Fawn River; Galena River, becomes the Galien River in Michigan; Trail Creek; East Arm Little Calumet River
Auburn Community Mausoleum is a historic mausoleum located in Roselawn Cemetery at Auburn, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was built in 1917, and is a one-story, monolithic cubic limestone structure with simple Classical Revival style detail. It features a shallow porch with two Doric order columns. The mausoleum continued to be used for interments ...