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Pigeon Township

The complete chapter on this township from Warrick and Its Prominent People : a History of Warrick County, Indiana, from the Time of Its Organization and Settlement, with Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent People of the Past and Present, published 1881. 90 words, covering 3 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.

Contents

1 section

The section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.

The modern record here

1 settlement

What 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.

SettlementFires Storm reportsMines and quarries Specimens
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Settlements in this township

3 places

Every populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 3 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.

The chapter

90 words

Reproduced complete and unedited from Warrick and Its Prominent People : a History of Warrick County, Indiana, from the Time of Its Organization and Settlement, with Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent People of the Past and Present, published 1881. 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.

Pigeon Township

Pigeon township lies in the northeastern corner of the county, and is indebted to Little Pigeon creek, on which it borders, for its name. The first settlement in this township was made by George Taylor in 182 1, and his brother, John Taylor, came in 1823. Nicholas Taylor also settled in this vicinity in 182 1. Other early settlers were John Greenaway, Samuel Ingram, Jesse Spradlin, the Skelton family, B. A. Ward, A. M. Jones, Jessie Isaacs, Morgan Chinn, P. N. Whittinghill, Hiram Brooner, John Beardsley and C. B. Allen.

Provenance

Text from Warrick and Its Prominent People : a History of Warrick County, Indiana, from the Time of Its Organization and Settlement, with Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent People of the Past and Present, published 1881, 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.