BlockMadison Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916. 125 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
125 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.
Madison Township
Madison township was organized by the board of county commission¬ ers in March, 1837, and Joseph Hanna was appointed inspector of elections. The first election was held in 1839, at the house of Peter Tanner, and Michael Kite was elected justice of the peace. The first log school house was built in 1837, which served as well for church purposes for a number of years. Nelson Gillam was the first school teacher. ) Much of the time the people were engaged in building roads. The towns of Radnor and Ockley are in this township, and are located on the Monon railroad.
Among the first settlers were Thomas Gillam, John M. Gillam, John Thompson, Michael Kite, Albert G. Hanna, Robert Gillam, Amos Thomp¬ son and others.
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.