Fulda, Indiana

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Fulda, Indiana

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|timezone = Central (CST)

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|area_code = 812, 930

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Fulda is an unincorporated community in Harrison Township, Spencer County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.{{cite gnis|434887|Fulda, Indiana|2009-10-17}} The Spencer County Memorial Forest features a World War II veterans memorial. There is a shooting match the first weekend of October.

History

Fulda was laid out in the 1840s.{{cite book|title=History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwarrick00chic|year=1885|publisher=Goodspeed|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofwarrick00chic/page/372 372]}} The community was originally built up chiefly by Germans, who named it after Fulda, in Germany.{{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/n157 140]|quote=..for their hometown, the German city of the same name.}} A post office was established at Fulda in 1850, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1995.{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Spencer |title=Spencer County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |accessdate=January 6, 2017}}

The elementary school closed at the end of the 1972–73 school year; the following school year, all of the students were then bused to St. Meinrad to attend school.

St. Boniface Catholic Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

Geography

Fulda is located at {{coord|38|06|41|N|86|50|10|W|type:city}}.

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in Spencer County, Indiana

Category:Unincorporated communities in Indiana