Moscow, Indiana

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|postal_code = 46156

|area_code = 765

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|blank_info = 18-51228{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}

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Moscow is an unincorporated community in Orange Township, Rush County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

History

Moscow was laid out in 1832.{{cite book|title=History of Rush County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7tE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR669|year=1888|publisher=Eastern Indiana Publishing Company|page=669}} The community's name most likely was a transfer from Moscow, in Russia.{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SXB5AAAAMAAJ|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=228|quote=...probably named for the Russian city.}} A post office was established at Moscow in 1827, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Rush&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Rush County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=1 December 2015}}

The town was struck on June 3, 2008, by an EF3 tornado which destroyed its landmark 19th-century Moscow Covered Bridge over the Big Flatrock river.{{cite web

|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-moscow-indiana-tornado-080604-ht,0,2476808.story|title=Moscow, Indiana tornado|accessdate=2008-06-07|author=Tribune wire reports|date=2008-06-04|publisher=Chicago Tribune}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20120426054844/http://www.moscowbridge.com/ Moscow, Indiana Covered Bridge website]

Category:Unincorporated communities in Rush County, Indiana

Category:Unincorporated communities in Indiana