Thomas Ranck Round Barn

All of the territory of the township as it now is which lies east of a line parallel to the eastern boundary of Jennings Township was taken from Brownsville Township, and the rest from Harrison. In position it is the northeastern township of the county, Wayne County lying north of it, Qnion east, Jennings and Cohuersville Townships south, and the West Fork of Whitewater River west. It is a small subdivison having an area of a little more than sixteen square miles. The face of the country is rolling. Its principal streams are West Fork and Nolan's Fork; both are on its western border. Simpson's and Williams Creeks - small streams^drain portions of the land. The extreme southeastern portion of the township is crossed by the C. H. & I. R. R., and within its confines are situated the hamlet of Waterloo and the major part of the hamlet- of Springerville.

Passage source: History of Fayette County, Indiana: Containing a History of the Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies, Etc., Etc. .., published 1885.

Chapel. This chapel building is a large frame, located in the northeastern part of the township, and at which is a burying- ground of considerable age. As far back as we can trace the history of the original class or society, it was an appointment along with Waterloo, a class at John Quinns, Brownsville, Bethel, Alquina. Veatches (Mt. Garrison), and others further south. The old Whitewater Circuit was formed in 1806 or 1807; just at what time the class at Robinson's was organized or first visited by the preachers who traveled the circuit, in the absence of records we cannot state, but it was some years before the formation of the Connersville Circuit in 1822. Sixty years ago the village of Brownsville, just east in Union County, was among the most flourishing societies on the circuit; the preacher often lived there. A meeting-house at Robinson's was built early; we find a reference to it in the decade between 1820 and 1830. The present house of worship there was built in 1845. The following list contains the names of some of the earlier preachers who traveled the old Whitewater Circuit and circuits growing out of it, on which Robinson's was an appointment:

Passage source: History of Fayette County, Indiana: Containing a History of the Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies, Etc., Etc. .., published 1885.

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