Anson, Indiana

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Anson was a community, now extinct, in Richland Township, Miami County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

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History

Anson was laid out in 1853. [1] When the Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago Railroad was built in Miami County, it was not extended to Anson, and the village became a ghost town. [2]

References

  1. ↑ History of Miami County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present. Brant & Fuller. 1887. pp.  772.
  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. 181.

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