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The old Selma Airport

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Read time: 6 min.

Aside from private landing strips, Delaware County was once home to five airports! Nearly everyone here knows of the Muncie Regional Airport (otherwise known as Johnson Field) and many have at least driven past Reese Airport near Prairie Creek Reservoir. Little, if anything, remains of shuttered airparks like Silver Fox, Wall, and Magic City, but the old airport in Selma can still be seen.

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Liberty Township’s Smithfield schoolhouse in Delaware County

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Read time: 3 min.

The village of Smithfield sprung up near a mill that David Stout erected on the White River around 18281. First platted in 1830 by David Stout and William Duncan as “Smith Field2,” the town thrived until the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway came3. The arrival of the railroad diverted commerce a mile and a half north to Selma, and Smithfield withered to the residential community it remains as today.

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