BlockCarrollton Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916. 133 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
2 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. All 2 are named in the chapter.
The chapter
133 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Carrollton Township
Carrollton township was organized by the board of county commis¬ sioners in 1835, and Elisha W. I^ake was appointed inspector of elections. The first election was held on the first Monday in April, 1835, at the house of E. W. Lake, and George Fouts was elected justice of the peace. The first settlements were made in 1832. The state Michigan road runs through this township. The Rev. John P. Hay was the minister of the Cumber¬ land Presbyterian church; the first to hold religious services in this town- (6) ship. In 1836 the first school house was erected on the land of George Young> Saw-mills were built in 1835, and the first grist-mill was erected in 1848. The villages in this township are Wheeling, Sharon and Carrolton, located on the state Michigan road.
Provenance
Text from History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.