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Geneva is a town in Wabash Township, Adams County, Indiana. The population was 1,293 at the time of the 2010 census . Geneva is the location of the Limberlost Cabin , the home of writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter from 1895-1913.
Geneva Downtown Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Geneva, Adams County, Indiana, USA. It encompasses 22 contributing buildings in the central business district of Geneva. were built between about 1882 and 1930, and include notable examples of Italianate and Romanesque Revival style commercial architecture ...
Gene Stratton-Porter, her husband, Charles Dorwin Porter, and their daughter Jeannette, moved from Decatur to Geneva, Indiana, after Jeanette's birth in 1887. [2] [3] Construction began on their new, two-story home at 200 East Sixth Avenue in Geneva in 1894.
The central character of Stratton-Porter's previous novel, Freckles, is a man whose job it is to patrol and guard valuable timber trees in the Limberlost Swamp. Freckles appears in Girl of the Limberlost as a friend of Elnora. In the film Freckles is an owl. This partial list of characters is taken from the novel, p. xiv.
Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924), born Geneva Grace Stratton, was an American writer, nature photographer, and naturalist from Wabash County, Indiana. In 1917 Stratton-Porter urged legislative support for the conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in Indiana .
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Gene Stratton Porter Cabin (Geneva, Indiana), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Indiana; Gene Stratton-Porter Cabin (Rome City, Indiana), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Noble County, Indiana
Geneva, Shelby County, Indiana facing south on Vandalia Road. Geneva was platted in 1853. [3] The community took its name after Geneva, in Switzerland. [4] An old variant name of the community was called Sulphur Hill. [5] A post office was established under the name Sulphur Hill in 1836, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in ...