BlockHall Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910. 365 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
365 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910. 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.
Hall Township
Hall township contains thirty-six square miles. It was one of the original townships of the county. On August i, 1817, Edward Hall entered the west half of the northwest quarter of section nine, township two south, range three west. It is about one mile north of Schnellville. Hall's creek and Hall township perpetuate his name. The original Hall township, in 1850, had a population of 530. The present Hall township, in 1900, had a population of 1,287, ^^^cl an estimated value of $300,000.
One of the finest springs in Dubois county may be found upon the farm of Thos. J. Nolan, near Ellsworth. It bursts from the outcrop of Kaskaskia limestone and goes tumbling and gushing down its rocky road until it reaches the ground, then divides and forms two full grown streams that empty into Lick Fork, which eventually reaches Patoka river. The spring discharges 60,000 gallons or nearlj^ 2,000 barrels of good, pure water dail3^ Measurements have shown these figures to represent its actual capacity. The temperature of the water is fifty-two degrees, Fahr.
Celestine. The town of Celestine is in the southeast quarter of section thirty-one, township one south, range three west, and it is the principal point in Hall township. Part of the land was bought of the United States, October 4, 1843, by Rev. Joseph Kundeck, its founder. He was also its only pastor from 1844 until 1853. The town was .surveyed and platted by Benjamin R. Kemp, county surveyor. The plat was acknowledged by Rev. Joseph Kundeck on the i6th day of November, 1843. The town is named in honor of Rt. Rev. Celestine Rene Lawrence De La Hailandiere, second bishop of the Vincennes diocese.
Ellsworth. The little town of Ellsworth bears date of June i, 1885. on which da}- it was surveyed and platted, at the request of James M. Ellis, who held title to the land. A postoffice had previously been established, and Mr. Ellis was the postmaster and principal merchant. It is in part of the west half of the southwest quarter of section fourteen, township one south, range three west. The land was entered by Zachariah Nicholson on May 4, 1837, and October 12, 1848.
Provenance
Text from History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910, 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.