The Randolph County town of New Lisbon was laid out in 1848. Eventually, it became home to two smithies, a pair of stores, a cabinet shop, a hotel, a sawmill, and as many as twelve houses! Unfortunately, the Pennsylvania Railroad favored the nearby town of Union City and destroyed any possibility of New Lisbon’s continued growth1.
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This can’t be Stoney Creek Township’s Hubbard schoolhouse in Randolph County. Can it?
Stoney Creek Township’s District 5 schoolhouse was known as Hubbard. It sat on West County Road 150-South, a quarter of a mile east of North County Road 900-West in Randolph County1. Three years later, it had moved to Indiana State Road 1, half a mile south of West County Road 100-South2. In 1907, it was one of two polling places of a newly-divided Stoney Creek Township3.
Continue reading “This can’t be Stoney Creek Township’s Hubbard schoolhouse in Randolph County. Can it?”The Randolph County, Indiana Courthouse (1877-)
It’s usually pretty easy to have your voice heard by local government. For starters, you could show up at a commissioners’ meeting, sign a petition, or hold a protest outside the county building. If all else fails, it might not hurt to gather up six of your elderly bridge club friends and pose naked for a calendar that draws attention to your plight! That’s what the self-styled “Courthouse Girls” from Farmland did while the historic Randolph County Courthouse awaited the wrecking ball. It worked!
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