Greene County, Indiana - Chapter 32, 1875

Chapter 32

Was named for Hon. William C. Linton, of Terre Haute, the candidate for Congress that made the first speech there. It has three dry goods stores, one drug store, one wagon shop, one cooper shop, one barber shop, one flouring mill, one cburch, one school house and a post office.

.JASON villi;:. The population of .Tasonville is one hundred. Business houses : one dry goods store, one drug store, one post office and notion store. It has also three harness shops, two blacksmith shops, three doctors, one school house and one church, Wright township. JOHNSTOWN,

Jefferson township, is on the south bank of Eel river, at the oldHubbell mill place, containing one substantial school house, one grist and saw mill, particularly noted for its trade and contains a population of about forty or fifty.

Has four dry goods stores, two drug stores, two saddler's shops, one flouring and one saw mill, one blacksmith shop, one wagon shop, two hotels, three churches, two school houses, one tan yard, one shoe shop, one mil^ linery shop, one planing mill and one cabinet shop - Cass township.

Two dry goods stores, one drug store, one saddlery shop, one shoeshop, one boarding house, two milliner shops, one church house, one school house, one blacksmith shop, one flouring mill, one carding and spinning factory, one cabinet shop, one picture gallery and one nursery. The population at present is one hundred and thirty-six. -Center township

Wm. flert "set in" to learn the blacksmith trade with Owens on the day he was seventeen years old, September 24tli, 1842 (one month after Owens' settlement).

The town was laid off in March, 1848, by L. Owens and Emanuel Hatfield, is near the center of Section twenty-seven, Town 6, Range 3, being one and one-half miles from Martin county line and two and one-hal miles from Lawrence county line, if a very healthy location and is surrounded by numerous never-failing

John George may also be classed as one of the pioneers. He has made two additions to the town since it was originally laid off, and Emanuel Hatfield has made one. OWENSBUKQ.

Owensburg has^at present (September 1st, 1875), three hundred an:l twenty-five inhabitants, actual count, is doing as good a business as any town in the county, according to population, has a large territory for trade, has four dry goods, one hardware, one drug and one furniture store, two cofiin shops, two- blacksmith ^shops, one good steam flouring mill, two shoe shops, one harness shop, one wagon shop, two first-class hotels, two churches (Baptist and Christian), one graded school, one Masonic lodge, five physicians, seven carpenters and the usual number of loafers and dead beats.

In Beech creek township, is a good place, for a small inland town, with u good trade and business prospects. It has one church, one school house, one flouring mill, one blacksmith shop, one shingle factory, three dry goods stores, one drug store and two doctors. Population not given.

Marco

-was named by the ofiicial managers at Washington City, at the time the post office was established. The village is located on the west bank of Black creek, and was laid out by Dr. Benefield, on the land of Franklin k Fletcher, in the year 1868. Marco has three dry goods stores, two drug stores, one blacksmith shop, one saw-mill, employing twenty bands, one church, one school house and throe doctors, with a population of three hundred inhabitants.

Switz City

is situated on the Indianapolis and Vincennes railroad, seven and onehalf miles southwest of Worthington and thirty-eight miles northeast of Vincennes. it has a population between fifty and seventy-five and contains, at this time, one -dry goods store, one drug and grocery store, two blacksmith shops, one wagon shop, one saddler shop and one sawmill, and within a few weeks will have two or three other business houses. The town is rapidly increasing and will soon be one of the most important business points in the county. It is one of the largest shipping points on the I. & V. R. R., and within one month from this date, a new railroad will be in operation to Bloomfield. The town has a good brick school house, and it is considered a healthy location. It is destined to be a place of some note.

Lyons Station

on the Indianapolis and Vincennes railroad, is a small village with a busy and bustling population of about one hundred, with two dry goods stores, one drug store, one school house, one church, one blacksmith shop, one boarding-house, depot and post office.

Jefferson township, is situated near the junction of Eel and White rivers, on a beautiful high prairie and bottom lands. It is a fine, largo town, with wide streets beautifully linetl with large shade trees. The following is the number of business houses: Two hotels, eight dry goods and grocery stores, four exclusive dealers in groceries, two hardware stores, two printing offices, from -which are issued, the Journal and Wortldvgton Times ; two saddlery shops, two boot and shoe manufactories, several shoe shops, one stationery store, one bakery and confectionery, three undertaking establishments, one bank, two livery stables, one pottery, two meat markets, two watchmakers and jew- eler?, one marble shop, fonr millinery stores, two carriage shops, four blacksmith shops, twosaw-raills, one planing mill, several real estate, claim, pension and insurance agent*, seven piiysicians, two drug stores, three dentists, tiro -warehouses, two photographers, one packing house, one miH, two flouring mills, and one gun repair shop. The town is nearly one mile square, and the population is about one thousand five liundred. 'J'here are si.t churches and one railroad.

as given by Mr. Lawson Oliphant, one of the very early settlers: The name of the post office at Jonesboro is Hobbieville, and is situated on section thirty-five, Center township range three west, one and a*half miles from the comer of Monroe and Lawrence counties, on a high, healthy and pleasant place, with plenty of water, surrounded with fine, large bluffs and abundance of spring water. Population of the town, one hundred. There are two stores, two doctors, three carpenter?, two wagon shops, one steam fruit distillt-ry, one blacksmith shop, one lawyer, two notars' publics, one school house and one church.

was laid out at the mouth of Eel fiver, in Eel Rii'er township* about thirty-five years ago, by the Messrs. Allisons. At one time it was quite a business point on the river, but on account of the great amount of sickness by cholera and the destruction of the west part of the village by fire many years ago, the most of the business men there have cast their lots and fortunes in many other localities. A few old pioneers yet reside there, and we will hereafter give their pergonal family history. The po^t office and old time business houses were all removed to Worthington ; there is, however, one school house and one church.

I the voting precinct and main trading ! point in Taylor township, is quite fi flourishing little village, and contains several good business nouses, scIjooIs, churches, etc. The population i» about three hundred inhabitants.

the old log cabin town on the OAvens-* burg and Bloomfield road, was laid out by old Isaac Johnson, a very noted colored citizen of Center township. The proprietor has long since passed away, and the town is also now going down the same natoral course. No public btiildJng exceji't a school house.

I the oldest village in Greene county, I was at one time the best place in the eountx for the location of the county seat, was for many years the voting {precinct for all the townships in the I southwest part of Greene county, and it was the best place for sport and fun of any neighborhood in western Indiana. When a stranger chanced to pass that way and enjoyed the hospjtahty of the Dixon famiiyhe always? had Faii'play.

the capital of the county, has more good substantial dwelling houses in it than any other town of its size in the State. The Bloomfield court house door sill is about four hundred and seventy feet above the level of the sea, and the town has a good outlet and home trade. Being an inland town, it has the usual number of dr}' goods stores, grocery stores, millinery shops,'carpenter shops, blacksmith shops, flouring and saw mills, good church houses, school houses,, saloons and dead-heads, besides two well established home newspapers - weeklies - with a population of about one thousand inhabitants.