Dongola, Indiana

1829. Samnel Baldwin and Jacob Skelton were over: seers of the poor in 1825-26, The west y Brown and William Pearson had charge of the poor, and the same year Silas Edrington was appointed in. spector of elections. In 1828 William Devi 'MeDill attended to the wants of the poor, James Skelton and Silas Edrington sume ofice. In 1823 John Hargrove spector of elections and James W. Cockrum in 1829, and the same year Samuel Whitsitt was appointed constable, Cohmbia Township is well supplied with schools and churches and plenty of wagon roads, and her railroad facilities are as good as any other town ship in the county. The Louisville, Evansville & St. Lonis Railroad (Air Line) enters the township on Se tion 17, erossen the "Straight "Line at Oakland and leaves the township on Section 15 on the west. 'The 1 & E. R. Ra, familiarly "Straight Line" enters Columbia on the so 5 anl ex tends in a due northeasterly direction through the township, crossing the Patoka River om Section 3 Township 10, Tange M, At the city of Oakland i crosses the "Air Line is situated on the south bank of the Patoka River, he proprietors were William Carpenter amd Lame They Inid ont the town in March, 1851, on . Township 1, Ramse 8, and Section 6, Town Range 8. Iwas herethat the old Wabash & Ei id state rond crussed the Patoka River. Dongola was Haid ont with road st fonr to seventy-six feet wide. the town south of the river wis laid ont à public square. The mmes of the prineipal streets were Columbia, Locust, Chery, Canal, Walnut, Main and Mulberry. For a while this place bid town, Several business homses were established here, and for a few penes consid done is situated on a beatiful viuinenee, and commande an extensive view of the surrounding country, and is 19. tel in the midst of a rieh farming district, It has ample railroad facilities, the Lomisville, Evansville & St Louis, aud Indianapolis & Exmwville Ruilronds eros each other at this place, svi mann. fucturers and shippers direet communication with the principal cities and marts of trade, east and west nnd south. With these advantages und its h location, its prosperons growth simply a matter of time. It is twenty-sev northeast from Evansville, ninetf-u Louisville, 136 cast of St. L from Indianapolis. One of tl is, who sold his place in 1827 to Col. ues W. Cockrum. The place was afterward better known as the old Hargrove farm. Cockrum resided there until 1898, then went south and engaged im steamboating. In 1835 he returned and bought the land on which the greater part of Onkland now stands from Richard Barrett, his brother-in-law, who was living in a small enbin that stood abot one hundred feet northwest of where the Air Line sand house now stands. He lived in it for several years. Mr. Cockrum built two heavy hewed log cabins, built after the old style, with a large entry between. It stoo few yards west of where Abraham Cole now lives, n the First Baptist Church, where he and farmed a portion of the land that Oakland new stands on during the remainder of his life. His deth occurred in November, 1875. Another prominently identified with the early history of the place was Jacob W. Har grove, one of the founders of the town. He livel on his farm, cast of town, from early boyhood up to the time of his death, He was a Dor in leaf t» reco, a merchant, produce ant stock trader: also a miller. Tu 1855 the first stow grist wall was built by a stock company, consisting of James W. Cockrum, Jacob W. Hu 1.6. ©. Hargrove, Edward Crow, Willium M. Cockrum und Charles T. Shannon, It cost, when cor pleted, $8,000, und stood on what would now bo the morth part of town, on Mill Street fronting the railroad. Ti had four of burrs, The mill proved to be an un profitable investment, the county not then being im proved enonzh to support sneh a burge mill. Tt burned gether with n lange woolen factory, 'The same year Jacoh W. Hargrove and James W. Cock rum Imilt the first støre room. Tt stood a little north of the publie well, on Main Street, They establisho general country store, and it was the first stock of goods there. The stock cost $3 The Wabash was dao operation Dn Ta point to and a half miles worth of Oakland at the town of Dongola, on the Patoka Hiver. This wax the shipping point at that time for this community, At this tims considerable work had been done the Straight Line Railrond, and it was suppose that the world be completed very soon, nt its projectors became involved, hence they were compelled, in 1856, to suspend Imsinens entirely, and the work was aban a Messrs, Cockrum amd. Hargrove did an exten sive lines for those times ax merchants and ge traders, besides shipping flat boat loads of pork, vorn and flour out of the Patoka and Wabush Rivers. Piarren. Onkland was laid out hy James W. Cockrum and Warrick Hargrove, on art of the south st and part of the southeast quarters of Section 18, Township 2 senth, Range M. The streets und alleys "The plat was filed for record. on the 15th of

Passage source: SPC BOOKS STOR - 977.235 H History Of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884.

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