Greentown Commercial Historic District

In the year 1844, Joshua Freeman settled about one mile south of Greentown, in Section 5, where he took a claim and cleared a small patch of ground. He was a noted hunter and trapper, and passed over almost every acre of ground in the eastern part of the county in his quest of game, which, in that early day, Avas abundant and easily procured. He afterward disposed of his improvements to a Mr. I >imb and left the township.

Passage source: Counties of Howard and Tipton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.., published 1883.

Henry Bailly, and moved where the latter lived in this township, on Section 4 - land which he entered in 1847. Fry was a man of considerable note in the community where he resided, and took a lively interest in all movements calculated to develop the country's resources. He was the chief mover in the laying-out of Greentown, and it is to him as much as to any other man that the village is indebted for its success and prosperity. In addition to farming. Fry gave some attention to stockraising, and was one of the first citizens of the township to make that industry a success. He was identified with the township for a period of sixteen years, when he sold his real estate to Stephen Kirkpatrick and moved to Marion County, near Indianapolis, where he died in 1876.

Passage source: Counties of Howard and Tipton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.., published 1883.

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