BlockMonroe Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916. 127 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.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bringhurst | - | 5 | 1 | - |
| Flora | - | 24 | 2 | - |
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
127 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.
Monroe Township
Saturday in June, 1840, and James C. Todd was elected justice of the peace. 1 The first log school house was built on the farm of Amos Ball, in 1833. The Dunkard church was established in 1831. Other church denom¬ inations followed as the population increased.
Flora, an incorporated town, has a population of one thousand six hundred, and is located on the Vandalia railroad, in this township. Bringhurst is a town of about six hundred inhabitants, situate in this township and on the Vandalia railroad. Flora and Bringhurst each have fine high school buildings. These two rival towns are only one mile apart.
Among the early settlers were Thomas Ross, Samuel Ross, Joseph Beckner, Amos Ball, John Flora, Jacob Zook, George Cline, Jonathan Barnnard 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.