Anson, Indiana
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Anson was a community, now extinct, in Richland Township, Miami County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
History
Anson was laid out in 1853.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GETWAAAAMAAJ | title=History of Miami County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present | publisher=Brant & Fuller | year=1887 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GETWAAAAMAAJ/page/n732 772]}} When the Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago Railroad was built in Miami County, it was not extended to Anson, and the village became a ghost town.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gRgVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181 | title=History of Miami County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests | publisher=Lewis Pub. | author=Bodurtha, Arthur Lawrence | year=1914 | pages=181}}
References
External links
- {{cite map| url = http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/24547/Richland+Township/Miami+County+1877/Indiana/ | title = Combination Atlas Map of Miami County Indiana | publisher = Kingman Brothers | year=1877}}
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Category:Geography of Miami County, Indiana
Category:Ghost towns in Indiana
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