| [001] Courthouses - |
| 1st Courthouse: - Erected 1828 - Built of wood - destroyed by fire - |
| 2nd Courthouse: - Built 1837 - 45 feet square and 28 ft. tall - brick building - Built by John Morgan [The Delaware County Heritage Newsletter (Delaware County Historical Alliance), July/August 2002] - Includes drawing of the building - Doc2815.pdf - |
| 3rd County Courthouse: - Aug 1887 - 1966 - Designed by Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort Wayne - Photo with caption: [Album of Yesteryear, The Muncie Star, nd] Doc2784.pdf |
| 4th Courthouse: - 1966- - |
| Misc. Courthouse Info: - Bell purchased in 1848 from Buckeye Bell Foundry in Cincinnati, Ohio - 1000 pound, Bronze - The bell was used in the 2nd and 3rd Courthouses [The Muncie Star, 28 Feb 1982] - |
| [002] Roads - |
| - "Delaware County Roads - Gravel a Great Improvement over
Mud - Toll Roads to Free Roads" Article w/ maps - [DCHS
Newsletter, Apr-June 2005, p 5] |
| - ByGone Muncie: "A
Close Encounter...", Chris Flook, Muncie StarPress, 9 June
2019 (Doc5289.pdf) Notes from article: - Cornbread Road - Yorktown to Hoyt Avenue - Origin of the name: Folks took their corn to the mill to have it ground at Hoye Ave and Buck Creek and the way they traveled became known as Cornbread Road. Fire destroyed the mill in 1895. - Middletown Pike - I 1832 the Indiana General Assembly commissioned the Pendleton Road "From Munceytown in Delaware3 County...to Middletown in Henry County. - In 1853 the road was a Plank or Corduroy road - First Turnpike in Delaware County was the Muncie and Middletown Turnpike Company - Incorporated 29 June 1866 - Gravel turnpike route about the same route as the Pendleton Road - - Toll gates were at current Hoyt and Memorial and CR 300W at St Rd 67 - During Gas Boom - Middletown Pike was renamed to Hoyt Avenue. |
| [003] Cemeteries - [S5] - [S6] - | |
| Elizabethtown | |
| Elm Ridge | |
| Gardens of Memory | |
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Cemeteries of Delaware County, Indiana, Paul Revere Chapter, DAR,
Muncie, Indiana: 1956 #1: https://archive.org/details/cemeteryrecordsd00daug_1/page/n9/mode/2up - Bk4484 Contents: Ashinfeldt, Black, Bortsfield, Cullen, Eaton, ginn, Jones, Kennedy, Laird, Mt. Pleasant, Old Indian Trail, Old Studebaker, Orr, Roderick, Sharp, Smithfield, Stewarts, Thompson, Truitt, Union, Wheeling 1956 #2: https://archive.org/details/cemeteryrecordsd00daug_0/page/n9/mode/2up - Bk4485 Contents: Beech Grove, Bethel, Collins, Daleville, Forview, Friedline, Granville, Lost, Luray, Mt. Zion, Miller, Macedonia, Parker Moore, Rees, Sparr, Tomlinson, God Love - Index: 1958: https://archive.org/details/cemeteryrecordsd00daug - Bk4481 Contents: (Pub 1958) - 1. Burlingotn p 1-7 - 2. Mt Tabor P 8-12 - 3. Index, p 13- |
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| [004] Schools - |
| - "Memorabilia of Early Delaware County Schools" by Debbie
Clawson Bowers - The Indiana Genealogist, June 2014, (Vol. 25,
No. 2), Page 35. - Memorabilia of the Clawson Family who taught in various Delaware County Schools in the late 1800s and early 1900s - "1879: We now have 124 schoolhouses in Delaware County, Outside the city of Muncie" (Muncie Times, 2 Oct 1879) - [DCHS Newsletter, July-Sept 2008, page 1] - Drawing of first school in Delaware County - North of New Burlington - [DCHS Newsletter, July-Sept 2008, page 5] |
| [005] Maps - |
| 1870: Indiana Gazetteer: (David Rumsey Map Collection) - Link, |
| 1876 Map of Delaware County |
| 1881 Delaware County Map |
| Atlas of Delaware County, Indiana, 1887 |
| Delaware County Interactive Map |
| Delaware County, Indiana Detail Map - Shows towns large and small - Rockford Map Publishers, Plat Book 1952 - Doc2717.pdf |
| Delaware County Map, 1960 - Delaware County Genealogist, March 1992, page 5 - Doc2901.pdf |
| Sanborn Maps for Delaware County - IU Libraries - (Eaton, Muncie, Yorktown [See Muncie]) - (Accessed 4 Aug 2015) |
| County Map with cities and townships https://www.randymajors.org/countygmap?x=-85.3966523&y=40.2281127&cx=-85.3966523&cy=40.2281127&zoom=11&fips=18035&color=%231e73be&labels=show&cities=show&townships=show&counties=show |
| [006] Newspapers - |
| Jan 1899: Muncie had
three daily newspapers when the year 1899 began: The Herald
and The Times, published weekldy evenings, and the Muncie News,
publishedevery morning. Source: "Album of Yesteryear" The Muncie Star (Muncie, Indiana), 3 Dec 1995 |
| [007] Railroads - |
| - Interurban running between Muncie & New Castle running through Cowan, Oakville, Springport and Mount Summit [S7] |
| - "Railroads of Delaware County" - Accessed, 15 March 2019 - Link, (Google Maps) |
| [008] Misc. - |
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[008-001] Canals: - "The Canal That Never Was" by Chris Flook - "The Bulletin", Vol. 6, No. 3 (May/June 2018) - Delaware County Historical Society, Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana (Doc4754.pdf) |
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[008-002]
Delaware County Infirmary: Other Names: - County Farm - Delaware County Farm - Location: - Indiana 32 east of Muncie in Liberty Township, north side of Highway - Ph12509.jpg (Google Maps Image, 2019) - GPS Coordinates: 40.1951230, -85.3002730 - The infirmary was located adjacent to the Delaware County Poor Farm S12, - Acreage: 100 acres S11, - County Infirmary Cemetery: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2614038/county-infirmary-cemetery - Also known as County Farm Cemetery, Delaware County Farm Cemetery, Delaware County Infirmary Cemetery - GPS Coordinates: 40.1951230, -85.3002730 Images: - The building after the 1915 Fire: https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/sellers/id/280 (Ph12507.jpg) - Delaware County Poor Farm, ND - http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php/File:IND_DELAWARE_CIpc.jpg (Ph12506.jpg) Statistics: - Date Built: - Delaware County Poor Farm Founded: 1851 S11, - Date of Fire: 1891 (Death of 4 Inmates) S13 Part 1, - Date of Fire: 28 March 1915 (Death of 13 Inmates) S11, S13 Part 1, - No fire escapes on building S13 Part 1, - Date torn down: 1990s S11, - Nov 1996 most of the remaining building was torn down S11, "As many as 170 people lived in the home in the early decades of the 20th century. They included not only the poor and mentally ill but those who had been injured in accidents, suffered from arthritis or syphilis and, in one case, a woman who had given birth to eight illegitimate children." S11, Articles pertaining to the Infirmary: - "Fire at the Delaware County Infirmary" by Jennifer Lewis - Article and Photo - [DCHS Newsletter, May-June 2015] Part 1 - Part 2 - - On The Banks of White River website (Delaware and Neighboring Indiana Counties) 1. http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php/Delaware_County_Infirmary , accessed 25 Aug 2019 2. "Century Later, Fire Victims Mostly Forgotten" Muncie Star (Muncie, Indiana), 21 March 2015, Accessed 25 Aug 2019. Link: https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2015/03/21/delaware-county-poor-farm-nursing-home-fire-killed/25140997/ , accessed 25 Aug 2019 3. County Infirmary Cemetery - https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2614038/county-infirmary-cemetery , accessed 25 Aug 2019 "Also known as County Farm Cemetery, Delaware County Farm Cemetery, Delaware County Infirmary Cemetery" LOCATION E? Jackson Street (Indiana State Highway 32)? Selma, Delaware County, Indiana, 47302 USA 4. Indiana Memory: https://digital.library.in.gov/Record/BSU_sellers-280 , accessed 25 Aug 2019 "Delaware County Infirmary Remains after Fire" 5. Delaware County Infirmary remains after fire - (I got this link from #4) https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/sellers/id/280 , accessed 25 Aug 2019 - Image of burned building 6. "Century after fire killed 13, coup0le press for marker at site" https://www.wthr.com/article/century-after-fire-killed-13-couple-press-for-marker-at-site , accessed 25 Aug 2019 7. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~robbhaas/Places/Counties/Indiana_Delaware_County.htm , accessed 25 Aug 2019 - "Fire at the Delaware County Infirmary" by Jennifer Lewis - Article and Photo - [DCHS Newsletter, May-June 2015] Part 1 - Part 2 - - On The Banks of White River website (Delaware and Neighboring Indiana Counties)" Part 1: http://onthebanksofwhiteriver.com/content/articles/infirmary1.html Part 2: http://onthebanksofwhiteriver.com/content/articles/infirmary2.html 8. Delaware County Infirmary Construction Images: (10 Images) https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/MunHisPhoto/search/searchterm/County%20Infirmary%20Construction%20Photographs/field/all/mode/exact/conn/and/cosuppress/, accessed 25 Aug 2019 9. Delaware County Infirmary, built 1973: http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php/Delaware_County_Infirmary, accessed 25 Aug 2019 10. Delaware County Infirmary Image: http://www.poorhousestory.com/IN_DelawareCIpc.htm , accessed 25 Aug 2019 11. |
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[008-003] Population: 1840: 8843 - [S2, p 240] 1850: 10,976 [S2, p 240] |
| [008-004]
County Histories: - 1894: https://archive.org/details/portraitbiographdcin00chic - 1908, Vol. 1: Kemper: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Twentieth_Century_History_of_Delaware/Lx4VAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false - 1908, Vol 2: Kemper: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Twentieth_Century_History_of_Delaware/Xx4VAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=county+history+indiana&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false - - |
| [009]Centennial Celebration, 1927- |
| - Parade: 30 Sept 1927 |
| Floats: - Ph12351.tif - https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/KQ00gi3URs2Jx94Q6rAVWw.0dym7A96btC9OIt4SDH52Q - Minnetrista Photos of Parade Floats: - Ball Brothers Float: - Goddard Float: - |
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Newspaper Coverage: - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253820 - Muncie Morning Star, 1 Oct 1927, page 1 - "Queen and Court in Centennial Parade" (Picture) - "10,000 School Pupils are in Line of March" - Muncie Morning Star, 1 Oct 1927, page 3: https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253828 - Col. 3: The entire parade required an hour and fifteen minutes. The first division took but five minutes; the county school children, ten minutes; the city schools twenty minutes, and the remaining time by the industrial division. Search (1 Oct 1927): https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=Parade&ymd=1927-10-01&offset=2&t=3757 Newspapers.com - 1927 Parade - Muncie Delaware County Centennial Celebration Parade - 30 Sept 1927 "Centennial Parade to be Spectacular" - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251409615 - Muncie Morning Star, 2 Sept 1927, page 8, Col. 4 "Parade Plans Announced" - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253155 - Muncie Morning Star, 24 Sept 1927, page 16, Col. 1 "Movie Company to 'Shoot' Centennial Week Scenes" - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253558 - Muncie Morning Star, 27 Sept 1927, page2, Col. 3, 4 "Announce Parade Formation Plans for Townhship Schools" - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253558 - Muncie Morning Star, 27 Sept 1927, page2, Col. 3, 4 "Miss Delaware Crowned Queen of Centennial" - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253600 - Muncie Morning Star, 28 Sept 1927, page 1, Col. 8 "Halt is Called to Centennial" - https://www.newspapers.com/image/251253676 - Muncie Morning Star, 29 Sept 1927, page 1, Col. 5 - Parade postponed to 30 Sept 1927 at 2 pm |
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Source Citation |
Image |
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| S1 | "Along the Old Canal" - Anderson [Indiana] Herald-Bulletin, 3 Jan 2010, p C-3 |
 Ph7789.jpg |
| S2 | Book: Kemper, G W H. A Twentieth Century History of Delaware County Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co, 1908. Bk3012. |
Vol. 1 Vol. 2 |
| S3 | Book: Lasley, Norma and the Delaware County Historical Society (Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana). Images of America: Delaware County. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2012. Bk3725 | |
| S4 | Book: Hoosier
Stories of his Boyhood Days in Indiana, as told by Dr. S. W. Heath,
Handwritten and illustrated, 1909. (Monroe Township, Delaware
County, Indiana) Bk3809
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Link |
| S5 | Book:
Cartwright, Rosaella and Elizabeth Modlin. Cemeteries in
Delaware County, Indiana., Self-published, 1988. Bk2120 - The County Cemeteries are listed by Township - Includes maps of each township with the various cemeteries marked. - Includes the location and driving directions to each cemetery. - Includes and alphabetical index |
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| S6 | Delaware County Cemetery Burial List (INGenWeb.org) - Link, | |
| S7 | "Our Neighborhood" by Bill Spurgeon.
The Muncie Star (Muncie, Indiana), 19 Apr 1996 - Stick City (South of Muncie on old State Road 3 - Walnut Street) - Interurban running between Muncie & New Castle running through Cowan, Oakville, Springport and Mount Summit |
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| S8 | "Our Neighborhood" by Bill Spurgeon, The Muncie Star (Muncie, Indiana), 10 and 15 Dec 1992 (Blacksmith Shops in Delaware County) | |
| S9 | "Our Neighborhood" by Bill Spurgeon, The Muncie Star (Muncie, Indiana), 6 and 8 May 1991 (Lodges in Delaware County) | |
| S10 | Flook, Chris. Lost Towns of Delaware
County, Indiana. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press,
2019. Bk4212 http://lostdelawarecounty.chrisflook.org/ |
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| S11 | "Century
Later, Fire Victims Mostly Forgotten" Muncie Star (Muncie, Indiana),
21 March 2015, Accessed 25 Aug 2019. Link: https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2015/03/21/delaware-county-poor-farm-nursing-home-fire-killed/25140997/ , accessed 25 Aug 2019 |
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| S12 | "Century
after fire killed 13, couple press for marker at site" https://www.wthr.com/article/century-after-fire-killed-13-couple-press-for-marker-at-site , accessed 25 Aug 2019 |
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| S13 | "Fire at the
Delaware County Infirmary" by Jennifer Lewis - Article and Photo -
[DCHS Newsletter, May-June 2015] Part 1 - Part 2 - - On The Banks of White River website (Delaware and Neighboring Indiana Counties)" Part 1: http://onthebanksofwhiteriver.com/content/articles/infirmary1.html Part 2: http://onthebanksofwhiteriver.com/content/articles/infirmary2.html |
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| S14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_County,_Indiana | |
| S15 | The Society
Quarterly (Delaware County Historical Society), Spring 2021, Vol. 9,
No. 1, Page 10 Genealogy/ Gen Newsletters-Mags/ DCHS/ 2001-03...pdf |
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| S16 | The Society
Quarterly (Delaware County Historical Society), Spring 2021, Vol. 9,
No. 1, Page 5 Genealogy/ Gen Newsletters-Mags/ DCHS/ 2001-03...pdf |
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