Wooleytown,_Indiana Knowpia

Wooleytown is a ghost town in Richland Township, Miami County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

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Wooleytown was founded in 1846 by Amos Wooley, and others.^[1] The Lake Erie and Western Railroad being built two miles away from the community and the founding of the nearby town of Denver led to Wooleytown becoming a ghost town.^[2]

References edit

^ History of Miami County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present. Brant & Fuller. 1887. p. 771.
^ Bodurtha , Arthur Lawrence (1914). History of Miami County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests. Lewis Pub. p. 203.

External links edit

Combination Atlas Map of Miami County Indiana (Map). Kingman Brothers. 1877.

40°54′24″N 86°3′26″W / 40.90667°N 86.05722°W / 40.90667; -86.05722

[1] History of Miami County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present. Brant & Fuller. 1887. p. 771.

[2] Bodurtha , Arthur Lawrence (1914). History of Miami County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests. Lewis Pub. p. 203.

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