LaFontaine Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“LaFontaine Historic District is a national historic district located at La Fontaine, Indiana. It encompasses 56 contributing buildings and four contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of La Fontaine.”
Wikipedia article LaFontaine Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Wabash County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly Kendall & Branson between Walnut & Gruell Sts., LaFontaine, 46940
When was it listed? September 2014
Category. district
Township. Liberty township
National Register reference number. 14000809 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

6,695 words

This property stands in Liberty Township. History of Wabash County Indiana, published 1914 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers surface features, wileiam grant, first settler, daniel grant, jniaiilon pearson, first native-born white child, presley.

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 Liberty Township - 6,695 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of LaFontaine Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Jalapa Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Mcginnis Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wabash County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Josiah White's Manual Labor Institute	6.1 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000809 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wabash County	All 33 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.