Stavetown, Indiana

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Stavetown, Indiana
Unincorporated community
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Stavetown
Coordinates: 39°24′39″N85°00′36″W / 39.41083°N 85.01000°W / 39.41083; -85.01000
Country United States
State Indiana
County Franklin
Township Brookville
Elevation
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627 ft (191 m)
ZIP code
47012
FIPS code 18-72818 [2]
GNIS feature ID444102 [1]

Stavetown is an unincorporated community in Brookville Township, Franklin County, Indiana.

History

Stavetown received its name from a stave factory once located there. The stave factory was destroyed in the Great Flood of 1913 and was not rebuilt. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stavetown, Indiana
  2. ↑ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ↑ Reifel, August Jacob (1915). History of Franklin County, Indiana: Her People, Industries, and Institutions : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families. Windmill Publications. p.  206.


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