Freeland Park, Indiana

Freeland Park, Indiana
Unincorporated town
A water pump in the town park
Benton County's location in Indiana
Freeland Park Freeland Park's location in Benton County
Coordinates: 40°36′52″N87°29′28″W / 40.61444°N 87.49111°W / 40.61444; -87.49111
Country	United States
State	Indiana
County	Benton
Township	Parish Grove
Platted	1898
Named after	Antoine Freeland
Elevation [1]	220 m (722 ft)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	47944
Area code	765
FIPS code	18-25792 [2]
GNIS feature ID	434812

Freeland Park is an unincorporated town in Parish Grove Township, Benton County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. ^[3] It is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History

Freeland Park was platted in 1898 and named for Antoine Freeland, the original owner of the town site. ^[4] It stood at the terminus of the Freeland Park branch of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. A fire in 1914 badly damaged the town's business district. In the 1920s Freeland Park had two grain elevators, a high school, a Presbyterian church and eight to ten businesses. ^[5]

A post office was established at Freeland Park in 1901, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1957. ^[6]

Geography

Freeland Park is located at 40°36′52″N87°29′28″W / 40.61444°N 87.49111°W / 40.61444; -87.49111 , half a mile south of the intersection of Indiana State Roads 18 and 71 and a little under two miles east of the Illinois state line. A small waterway known as Salmon Ditch runs just north of town and flows west into Illinois where it becomes Cole Creek.

References

1. "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
2. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved January 31, 2008.
3. "Freeland Park, Indiana". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 29, 2020.
4. Baker, Ronald L. (October 1995). From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History . Indiana University Press. p.  138. ISBN   978-0-253-32866-3. ...and named for Antoine Freeland, who owned the land.
5. Birch, Jesse Setlington (1942) [1928]. "Unincorporated community s of the County". History of Benton County and Historic Oxford. Oxford, Indiana: Craw & Craw. p. 202.
6. "Benton County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on September 3, 2014. Retrieved August 26, 2014.

External links

• Media related to Freeland Park, Indiana at Wikimedia Commons