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RobbHaas Family Pages |
Stockport Delaware County, Indiana |
| Township: Washington |
| Location:
Coordinates: CR 900N, 390W, southeast corner of township |
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| Post Office Data:
Post Office Established: 8 Nov 1892 |
| Postmasters: William McKinley -- 18 Nov 1892 |
| Sources: [S3, p 166] - [S4, p 1032] - [S5, p 151] - [S6] - [S7, p 19] - |
| "Perhaps so named because it was a livestock shipping point." [S8, p 159] |
| Began around 1900 - located at Wheeling Pike and CR900N - Was on the CI&E Railroad between Muncie & Matthews - Farmers drove their cattle to the Stockport station to be shipped to market. Railway station torn down in the 1920s - The tracks taken up in 1975. There remained a store and gas station at the location into the 1950s. [S9] |
| "also in Washington Township, did not come along until the turn of the century. It's still represented by a few houses at Wheeling Pike and County Road 900N. It came in to existence when the Chicago, Indiana & Eastern Railroad extended its tracks from Matthews to Muncie. And it got its name from its function. As one of two railroad stations in Washington Township (The other was at Wheeling) it was a place to which farmers drove their livestock for shipment to market. Stockport lost its railroad - U.S. 35 - was routed over Wheeling Pike between Muncie and Marion, and into the 1950s Stockport had a store and gasoline station." [Source unknown, Feb 1994, page 4A] |
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| S1 | Google Maps | |
| S2 | WikiPedia Article | |
| S3 | Kemper, G.W.H., M.D., ed. A Twentieth Century History of Delaware County Indiana, 1908; reprint ed., Evansville, Indiana: Whippoorwill Publications, 1984. Bk3012. | |
| S4 |
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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| S6 | Map of Delaware County, Indiana. Compiled by H. Lester Janney. Revised by Ward M. Harlan, 1965. | |
| S7 | An Atlas of Delaware County, Indiana. Philadelphia: Griffing, Gordon & Co, 1887, reprint ed., Knightstown, Indiana: Mayhill Publications, 1971, Bk1849. | |
| S8 | Baker, Ronald L, and Marvin Carmony. Indiana Place Names. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1975, Bk1567. | |
| S9 | Newsletter Article: "Ghost Towns". DCHA Newsletter (Delaware County Historical Alliance, Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana), Vol. 1, No. 1, 19 Jan 2000. | Doc2847.pdf |
| S10 | "Our Neighborhood" by Bill Spurgeon. The Muncie Star, (Muncie, Indiana), 15 Feb 1994, page 4A | |
| S11 | Flook, Chris. Lost Towns of Delaware
County, Indiana. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press,
2019. Bk4212 http://lostdelawarecounty.chrisflook.org/ |
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