Anson, Indiana Explained

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

References

1. Book: History of Miami County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present . Brant & Fuller . 1887 . 772.
2. Book: History of Miami County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests . Lewis Pub. . Bodurtha, Arthur Lawrence . 1914 . 181.

External links

• Combination Atlas Map of Miami County Indiana . Kingman Brothers . 1877.

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