Richland, Rush County, Indiana

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Richland is an unincorporated community in western Richland Township, Rush County, Indiana, United States. It lies along State Road 244, south of the city of Rushville, the county seat of Rush County.DeLorme. Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer. 3rd ed. Yarmouth: DeLorme, 2004, p. 46. {{ISBN|0-89933-319-2}}.

History

Richland was platted in 1854.{{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=PR670|year=1888|publisher=Eastern Indiana Publishing Company|page=670}} The community took its name from Richland Township.{{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/n296 279]|quote=The name is for the township...}}

A post office was established at Richland in 1827, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1903.{{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}}

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in Rush County, Indiana

Category:Unincorporated communities in Indiana