Wooleytown, Indiana

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

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History

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]

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References

  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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