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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Adams County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
Berne initially formed around a rail depot placed on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad lines. On Christmas Day 1871, the first train arrived at the local depot. A post office was established in Berne in 1872. [9] After the population of the town exceeded 2,500, on a petition of two-thirds of the residents, the town decided to become a city ...
The Amish community in Adams County belongs the Swiss Amish, which is an Amish affiliation whose ancestors came to Adam County in 1840 and who speak a Bernese dialect in everyday life. They had a total population of 8,595 people in 58 congregations in 2017, [ 10 ] or 24.2% of the county's population.
The section between Old SR 21 and Old SR 46 was known as Custer Trail. [13] [14] In 1924, the section north of Fort Wayne became Old SR 13 and went from Fort Wayne to the Michigan state line. [15] [16] US 27 in Indiana is one of the original U.S. Highways of 1926, then connecting Cheboygan, Michigan, with Cincinnati, Ohio, through Fort Wayne. [3]
The racial makeup of the town was 97.82% White, 0.14% Native American, 0.41% from other races, and 1.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.13% of the population. The town holds the distinction of the having the highest percentage of people with Swiss ancestry, followed by nearby Berne, Indiana, according to the 2000 ...
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Blue Creek Township is one of twelve townships in Adams County, Indiana. [2] As of the 2020 census , its population was 1,540. [ 1 ] The majority of the Township, some two thirds, speak an Amish form of Bernese German , a Swiss German dialect, as their mother tongue.
Two siblings aged 7 and 11 died in the crash along with a horse pulling the Amish buggy