Shedville, Indiana

NhcdriUc Hamkt. - Not incorporated; located on Sections 18 and ly. Town 21, Range 13; begun about 1880. It stands not on any stream, uor railroad, nor thoroughfare, nor pike, nor canal, but just right whore it is close by a saw-mill. It is a little jilace, lately in the woods, has a store, a sawmill, a smith shop and a wagon (repair) shop, and the enterprising denizens of the place have secured a mail route through the vicinity and a post i office at their ambitious little hamlet. The store is owned by \ Alonzo Brinkley and the saw-mill by Miranda & Barger. I There is something peculiar about this town (by courtesy and name, though not incorporated nor even platted). There is not I a dwelling in it and but three buildings, one of which is the sawi mill, a rough structure, made of posts, and a lumber roof. The j business men of tho place are all bachelors, and have to board j out of town, though only two dwelling-houses are in sight. In ] some countries, and at sometimes, this humble beginning of j things'might bo the starting point to future greatness. How it i will be for Shedville during tho ages that are to come, this asj i)iring little hamlet just budding into life among the older and I more pretentious towns of old Randolph, forty years hence may perhaps roveal to tlioso who may at that timo b(;> inhabitants of this region and to the dwellers in this county, in that distant era; and to the historian of that coming time, we trustfully commit the now latent possibilities and the yet unrevoaled history of that rising city. ' SteubeiwUle. -Isr-del Wirt, Jonathan Green, proprietors. Lo-

Passage source: History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Green Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.