BlockTippecanoe Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916. 207 words, covering 1 settlement. 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
1 settlementWhat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburg | 6 | 2 | 5 | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is named in the chapter.
The chapter
207 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.
Tippecanoe Township
Tippecanoe township was organized by the board of county commis¬ sioners in the year 1830. The Tippecanoe river runs through the western side of the township, and the Wabash river is its boundary on the south.
Pittsburg is located on the Wabash and dates its settlement to the year 1825. The town of Sleeth is situate in this township, on the Monon rail¬ road. The Associate Presbyterian church was the first church to organize in this township. Other denominations organized in later years. At one time Pittsburg did a large business in produce shipping, had a foundry, a tannery, a woolen-mill, a flouring-mill and a saw-mill. A canal was taken out on the north side of the river, above the dam, and it was used to ship on canal boats the products to Toledo.
Pittsburg was laid out by Merkle & Kendall in 1836. Bolles & Colton, Spears Brothers, T. Donavan and Merkle & Kendall were the principal buyers and shippers. In February, 1882, the Wabash dam was blown out with dynamite. After this affair the canal soon ceased to be a water high¬ way. Deer Creek, prairie lies on the- west side of the Wabash river and was land reserved to A. Burnett by Indian treaties.
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.