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Riverside City Delaware County, Indiana |
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Township: Center |
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Coordinates: North of White River, west of Wheeling Ave [Riverside]"...was a residential suburb that grew up west of
Wheeling Avenue, just across White River from Muncie's downtown. Town Officials for Riverside 1915-16 were J. Walter Kirkpatrick, Fred F. Resonaer, T. Ben Koons, Smith A Morris and Charles K. Mitchell, trustees; J. Earl Fouts, cler-treasurer; William F. Mason, marshal, and J.M. Quick, health officer." [S2, 31 Mar 1994] - Votes for incorporation 18 May 1903 [S1, p 199] - |
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Date Platted: ca 1903 |
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"It was upon the bluff north of White River, now occupied by the fair grounds, and what is now the beautiful suburb of Riverside, where are some of the finest homes in the city, that the famous chief, Munsey, and his tribe of braves were camped during the early settlement of the county." [S3] |
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S1 | Kemper, G.W.H., M.D., ed. A Twentieth Century History of Delaware County Indiana, 1908; reprint ed., Evansville, Indiana: Whippoorwill Publications, 1984. Bk3012. | |
S2 | "Our Neighborhood". Muncie, Indiana: The Muncie Star. | |
S3 | Delaware County Genealogist and Historian. Vol. 4, No. 3, Sept 1995, page 55. | |
S4 | Newsletter: The Bulletin (Delaware County Historical Society) Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, Vol. 5, No. 4 (July/ August 2017). "Riverside City" by Chris Flook | |
S5 | (Fire Stations) - "Our Neighborhood" by Bill Spurgeon - The Muncie Star (Muncie, Indiana), 24 Apr 1996 | |
S6 | Flook, Chris. Lost Towns of Delaware
County, Indiana. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press,
2019. Bk4212 http://lostdelawarecounty.chrisflook.org/ |
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