Curtisville, Indiana

Curtisville, Indiana
Unincorporated community
Curtisville is located in Indiana
Curtisville
Curtisville
Curtisville is located in the United States
Curtisville
Curtisville
Coordinates: 40°19′06″N 85°53′55″W / 40.31833°N 85.89861°W / 40.31833; -85.89861
CountryUnited States
StateIndiana
CountyTipton
TownshipMadison
Elevation
[1]
876 ft (267 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
46036
FIPS code18-16462[2]
GNIS feature ID433262[1]

Curtisville is an unincorporated community in Madison Township, Tipton County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.[1]

The community is part of the Kokomo, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History

Curtisville was founded by L.B. Colvin just prior to 1859. Colvin built a sawmill on the railroad that traveled through Madison Township and sold as much lumber as possible so he could secure a train station. Around the same time the first retail operations were opened in Curtisville, in a building on the east side of town that was built by A.B. Newman. Lumber remained the primarily economy for the town. Other services in Curtisville included blacksmithing.[3]

In 1859, a post office was installed in Curtisville. Jacob Oldacre served as postmaster.[3] The post office ran until it was discontinued in 1951.[4] A Missionary Baptists congregation was founded in Curtisville in 1860. A church was built in 1861.[5] The land was surveyed and divided into a plat in 1873. As of 1914, 200 people lived in town and the primary economic driver was the Curtisville Tile and Brick Company.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Curtisville, Indiana
  2. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ^ a b c Pershing, p. 81
  4. ^ "Tipton County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  5. ^ Pershing, p. 207

Sources

  • Pershing, Marvin W. "History of Tipton County, Indiana: Her People, Industries and Institutions". Indianapolis: B.F. Bowen (1914).


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