Algiers, Indiana
{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Indiana, United States}}
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Algiers is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Pike County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
History
Algiers was laid out in 1868.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4uIKAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA355 | title=History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana | author=Goodspeed Brothers | date=1984 | pages=355| publisher=Рипол Классик | isbn=978-5-87521-222-2 }} The community was named after Algiers, the capital of Algeria.{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake|url-access=registration|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake/page/48 48]|quote=...apparently for the city in North Africa...}} An old variant name of the community was called Delectable.
Homer E. Capehart, a U.S. Senator from Indiana and a pioneer in the jukebox and record player industry{{cite journal |last= Pickett |first= William B. |author-link=William B. Pickett|date= 1986 |title=Homer E. Capehart: Phonograph Entrepreneur |jstor= 27790996 |journal= Indiana Magazine of History |volume=82 |issue=3 |pages= 264–276 }} was born in Algiers in 1897, the son of a local tenant farmer.{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/05/archives/homer-e-capehart-is-dead-at-82-was-3term-senator-from-indiana.html |title = Homer E. Capehart is Dead at 82; Was 3-Term Senator from Indiana|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 1979-09-05|last1 = Cook|first1 = Joan}}
A post office called Algiers was established in 1885, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1955.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Pike | title=Pike County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=5 October 2015}}
The town's name is part of the namesake of the Algiers, Winslow and Western Railway which operates within Pike County.
References
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Pike County, Indiana
Category:Unincorporated communities in Indiana
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