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The local post office was first established as Merino (for the nearby Mt. Merino Seminary) on February 16, 1885. However, two area businessmen, R.M. Jolly and Edgar L. Bennett, anticipating the route of the Louisville, St. Louis, and Texas Railroad, purchased 315 acres (127 ha) of farmland at the site and then, with the help of the railroad's employees, platted a new community over the 1888 ...
The Irvington Historic District in Irvington, Kentucky is a 12.6 acres (5.1 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [1] It is roughly bounded by CSX tracks, Third, Caroline and Walnut Streets. It included 20 contributing buildings, 12 contributing structures, and three contributing sites ...
Location of Kenton County in Kentucky. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map ...
Map of the Trace. The Trace was created by millions of migrating bison that were numerous in the region from the Great Lakes to the Piedmont of North Carolina. [2] It was part of a greater buffalo migration route that extended from present-day Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky, through Bullitt's Lick, south of present-day Louisville, and across the Falls of the Ohio River to Indiana, then ...
City, state Notes Brook, Indiana: Brookston, Indiana: I.O.O.F. Lodge (Chesterton, Indiana) c.1905 built 1999 NRHP CP Chesterton, Indiana: Contributing in Chesterton Commercial Historic District: Calumet Lodge IOOF Lodge No. 601 1916 177-79 State St. Hammond, Indiana Morgantown, Indiana: Contributing in Morgantown Historic District (Morgantown ...
The Walpole Company, Indiana Company, and members of the Ohio Company reorganized, and on December 22, 1769, formed the Grand Ohio Company. [14] In 1772, the Grand Ohio Company received from the British government a grant of a large tract lying along the southern bank of the Ohio as far west as the mouth of the Scioto River . [ 15 ]
Sanborn Maps of Georgia, 1884–1922 — Digital Library of Georgia; Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Illinois — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Map Library; Sanborn Maps of Indianapolis, Indiana, 1887–1941 — IUPUI University Library; Sanborn Maps of Muncie, Indiana, 1883–1911 — Ball State University Library
On April 15, 1803, the investor-proprietors formed a corporation to manage the lands to which they were entitled in the newly formed state of Ohio. [2] The land was later divided into 30 five-mile (8 km) square survey townships , which were further subdivided into 120 quarters, each containing 4,000 acres (16 km 2 ).