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Progress (Sharps) Delaware County, Indiana |
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| Township: Monroe - Salem |
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Location: [S5] -
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Sharps: - In 1887 William Sharp owned the land on which Progress was eventually platted [S11, p 17] - In 1984 I saw the name "Sharps" on an Indiana highway map [no source] |
| Date Platted: 1900 [S6, p 135] |
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Post Office Data: Post Office Established: 4 Apr 1900 [S3, p 1012] Post Office Closed:15 Jan 1901 [S3, p 1012] Post Office Names: Progress Richwood - Tabor - Progress connection: 19 Aug 1843: Richwood Post office established 1 March 1880: Tabor Post office established 19 Aug 1890: Richwood Post Office closed - Mail to Tabor 4 Apr 1900: Progress Post Office established 15 Jan 1901: Progress Post Office closed - Mail to Tabor 14 Oct 1901: Tabor Post Office closed - Mail to Muncie |
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Postmasters: Oliver P. Bowers -- 4 Apr 1900 [S3, p 1012] PO Closed, mail to Tabor -- 15 Jan 1901 [S3, p 1012] |
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Maps: nd: [S10, Plat Book 3, #68] - |
| "Served as a telegraph station on the Indiana Midland railway." [S7] |
| "Town name is presumably commendatory" [S6, p 135] |
| Photo of a new house under construction in "Sharps" S12 page 117, |
| Red Men Lodge - Progress - [Our Neighborhood, The Muncie Star, 6 May 1991] |
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| S1 | Google Maps: Search: | |
| S2 | WikiPedia Article | |
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Baker, J. David. The
Postal History of Indiana, Vol. 2.
Louisville, Ky: Leonard H. Hartman, 1976, Bk3010. Repositories: Bracken Library, Ball State University and Anderson Public Library |
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Baker, J. David. The
Postal History of Indiana, Microfiche.
Louisville, Ky: Leonard H. Hartman, 1976, Bk3010. Repositories: Bracken Library, Ball State University and Anderson Public Library |
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| S5 | Map of Delaware County, Indiana. Compiled by H. Lester Janney. Revised by Ward M. Harlan, 1965. | |
| S6 | Baker, Ronald L, and Marvin Carmony. Indiana Place Names. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1975, Bk1567. | |
| S7 | Newsletter Article: "Ghost Towns". DCHA Newsletter (Delaware County Historical Alliance, Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana), Vol. 1, No. 1, 19 Jan 2000. | Doc2847.pdf |
| S8 | GNIS Record: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:441606 Coordinates: (Dec: 40.1203223 -85.4424722) (DMS: 400713N 0852633W) |
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| S9 | Google Custom Map "Salem Township, Delaware County, Indiana" | Link |
| S10 | Bracken Library Special Collections. Ball State University. | |
| S11 | An Atlas of Delaware County, Indiana. Philadelphia: Griffing, Gordon & Co, 1887, reprint ed., Knightstown, Indiana: Mayhill Publications, 1971, Bk1849. | |
| S12 | 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 | |
| S13 | Flook, Chris. Lost Towns of Delaware
County, Indiana. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press,
2019. Bk4212 http://lostdelawarecounty.chrisflook.org/ |
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