Edgerton, Indiana | |
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| Coordinates: 41°04′36″N84°48′22″W / 41.07667°N 84.80611°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Indiana |
| County | Allen |
| Township | Jackson |
| Elevation | 755 ft (230 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 46797 |
| Area code | 260 |
| GNIS feature ID | 452039 |
Edgerton is an unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Allen County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [2]
Edgerton was founded in 1889 after the railroad was extended to that point. [3] A post office was established at Edgerton in 1890, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1954. [4]
Edgerton was named for Joseph K. Edgerton. He was born in Vergennes, Vermont in 1818 and moved to Fort Wayne in 1844. A lawyer and politician, in 1862 he was elected as a Representative in the U.S. congress for one term. Mr. Edgerton was also a director and/or president of three different railroads serving the area. He had invested in large parcels of land in Ohio, and also along the Ohio line in Indiana, in townships east of Fort Wayne. There, he had purchased what was considered condemned swamp land which still had stands of virgin timber because it was too wet and difficult to do logging. Following his death in 1893, two Anspach brothers - John and George - from Oak Harbor, Ohio, purchased several hundred acres of that land bordering Ohio from Mr. Edgerton's estate, managed by his sons Edward and Clement.
The Anspach brothers then built homes, a sawmill, a tile factory, and a general store there, thus building the economic base of the new village of Edgerton. The tile factory produced drainage tile that was utilized to drain the swampy land to facilitate its clearing and occupation. Their brother Allen Anspach and other siblings remained in Oak Harbor, where he ran the family's existing lumber company. The Edgerton house built by George Anspach is still an active residence there, facing the railroad tracks. His daughter, Edith, was born in Oak Harbor about 1881 and, after her 1899 graduation from Oak Harbor School, moved to her parents' home in Edgerton. She then occupied the house after her marriage to George Waldrop, of Owen County, KY, who had come there to find work during the depression following the Spanish–American War. George Anspach and wife Mary moved to a new home on Creighton Avenue in Fort Wayne around 1908, leaving the Edgerton house to Edith and her husband George. Edith and George Waldrop then also moved to another residence on Creighton Avenue around 1918. About half of their ten children were born in Edgerton, half in Fort Wayne.
Edgerton is located on the Ohio state line at 41°04′36″N84°48′22″W / 41.07667°N 84.80611°W .
Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is 18 miles (29 km) west of the Ohio border and 50 miles (80 km) south of the Michigan border. The city's population was 263,886 as of the 2020 Census, making it the second-most populous city in Indiana after Indianapolis, and the 76th-most populous city in the United States. It is the principal city of the Fort Wayne metropolitan area, consisting of Allen and Whitley counties which had an estimated population of 423,038 as of 2021. Fort Wayne is the cultural and economic center of northeastern Indiana. In addition to the two core counties, the combined statistical area (CSA) includes Adams, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Steuben, and Wells counties, with an estimated population of 649,105 in 2021.
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Joseph Ketchum Edgerton was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1863 to 1865.
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Maples is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Allen County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Alfred Peck Edgerton was an American businessman who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio for two terms from 1851 to 1855.
Mollie is an extinct American village in Blackford County, Indiana, that flourished during the Indiana Gas Boom from the 1880s until the 1920s. The region around Mollie experienced an economic "boom" period because of the discovery of gas and crude oil. Mollie was a stop along the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati, and Louisville Railroad—and happened to be near the region's oil fields, a convenient location for the area's oil workers.
Wright Modlin or Wright Maudlin (1797–1866) helped enslaved people escape slavery, whether transporting them between Underground Railroad stations or traveling south to find people that he could deliver directly to Michigan. Modlin and his Underground Railroad partner, William Holden Jones, traveled to the Ohio River and into Kentucky to assist enslave people on their journey north. Due to their success, angry slaveholders instigated the Kentucky raid on Cass County of 1847. Two years later, he helped free his neighbors, the David and Lucy Powell family, who had been captured by their former slaveholder. Tried in South Bend, Indiana, the case was called The South Bend Fugitive Slave Case.
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