| [001] Courthouses - |
| 1st Courthouse: - Erected 1828 - Built of wood - destroyed by fire - |
| 2nd Courthouse: - Built 1837 - 45 feet square and 28 ft. tall - brick building - Built by John Morgan [The Delaware County Heritage Newsletter (Delaware County Historical Alliance), July/August 2002] - Includes drawing of the building - Doc2815.pdf - |
| 3rd County Courthouse: - Aug 1887 - 1966 - Designed by Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort Wayne - Photo with caption: [Album of Yesteryear, The Muncie Star, nd] Doc2784.pdf |
| 4th Courthouse: - 1966- - |
| Misc. Courthouse Info: - Bell purchased in 1848 from Buckeye Bell Foundry in Cincinnati, Ohio - 1000 pound, Bronze - The bell was used in the 2nd and 3rd Courthouses [The Muncie Star, 28 Feb 1982] - |
| [002] Roads - |
| - "Delaware County Roads - Gravel a Great Improvement over
Mud - Toll Roads to Free Roads" Article w/ maps - [DCHS
Newsletter, Apr-June 2005, p 5] - |
| [003] Cemeteries - [S5] - [S6] - | |
| Elizabethtown | |
| Elm Ridge | |
| Gardens of Memory | |
| [004] Schools - |
| - "Memorabilia of Early Delaware County Schools" by Debbie
Clawson Bowers - The Indiana Genealogist, June 2014, (Vol. 25,
No. 2), Page 35. - Memorabilia of the Clawson Family who taught in various Delaware County Schools in the late 1800s and early 1900s - "1879: We now have 124 schoolhouses in Delaware County, Outside the city of Muncie" (Muncie Times, 2 Oct 1879) - [DCHS Newsletter, July-Sept 2008, page 1] - Drawing of first school in Delaware County - North of New Burlington - [DCHS Newsletter, July-Sept 2008, page 5] |
| [005] Maps - |
| 1870: Indiana Gazetteer: (David Rumsey Map Collection) - Link, |
| 1876 Map of Delaware County |
| 1881 Delaware County Map |
| Atlas of Delaware County, Indiana, 1887 |
| Delaware County Interactive Map |
| Delaware County, Indiana Detail Map - Shows towns large and small - Rockford Map Publishers, Plat Book 1952 - Doc2717.pdf |
| Delaware County Map, 1960 - Delaware County Genealogist, March 1992, page 5 - Doc2901.pdf |
| Sanborn Maps for Delaware County - IU Libraries - (Eaton, Muncie, Yorktown [See Muncie]) - (Accessed 4 Aug 2015) |
| [006] Newspapers - |
| Jan 1899: Muncie had
three daily newspapers when the year 1899 began: The Herald
and The Times, published weekldy evenings, and the Muncie News,
publishedevery morning. Source: "Album of Yesteryear" The Muncie Star (Muncie, Indiana), 3 Dec 1995 |
| [007] Railroads - |
| - Interurban running between Muncie & New Castle running through Cowan, Oakville, Springport and Mount Summit [S7] |
| [008] Text - |
| Misc. Info |
| Population: 1840: 8843 - [S2, p 240] 1850: 10,976 [S2, p 240] |
| Delaware County Infirmary: - "Fire at the Delaware County Infirmary" by Jennifer Lewis - Article and Photo - [DCHS Newsletter, May-June 2015] Part 1 - Part 2 - - On The Banks of White River website (Delaware and Neighboring Indiana Counties) |
| Sources | ||
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Source Citation |
Image |
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| S1 | "Along the Old Canal" - Anderson [Indiana] Herald-Bulletin, 3 Jan 2010, p C-3 |
 Ph7789.jpg |
| S2 | Book: Kemper, G W H. A Twentieth Century History of Delaware County Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co, 1908. Bk3012. |
Vol. 1 Vol. 2 |
| S3 | 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 | |
| S4 | Book: Hoosier
Stories of his Boyhood Days in Indiana, as told by Dr. S. W. Heath,
Handwritten and illustrated, 1909. (Monroe Township, Delaware
County, Indiana) Bk3809
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Link |
| S5 | Book:
Cartwright, Rosaella and Elizabeth Modlin. Cemeteries in
Delaware County, Indiana., Self-published, 1988. Bk2120 - The County Cemeteries are listed by Township - Includes maps of each township with the various cemeteries marked. - Includes the location and driving directions to each cemetery. - Includes and alphabetical index |
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| S6 | Delaware County Cemetery Burial List (INGenWeb.org) - Link, | |
| S7 | "Our Neighborhood" by Bill Spurgeon.
The Muncie Star (Muncie, Indiana), 19 Apr 1996 - Stick City (South of Muncie on old State Road 3 - Walnut Street) - Interurban running between Muncie & New Castle running through Cowan, Oakville, Springport and Mount Summit |
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| S8 | "Our Neighborhood" by Bill Spurgeon, The Muncie Star (Muncie, Indiana), 10 and 15 Dec 1992 (Blacksmith Shops in Delaware County) | |
| S9 | "Our Neighborhood" by Bill Spurgeon, The Muncie Star (Muncie, Indiana), 6 and 8 May 1991 (Lodges in Delaware County) | |
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