Andrew Evans, John Montgomery, and Montgomery McCall came to the area with their families and settled on the Blue River. The area that is now called Hancock County was first settled around 1818. Other towns grew around a post office and when the post office closed, so did the town. Sometimes a major transportation avenue, like a railroad, bypassed the town, effectively closing it to the outside. Perhaps residents abandoned a village because the settlement ceased to offer the same amenities as a nearby community. In most cases, the economic activity that supported the town stopped or shifted elsewhere. Towns became lost for a variety of reasons. Many of these places only had a rural post office, a railroad stops, and a cluster of houses surrounding a mill or general store. Central Indiana abounds in the sites of small towns that have disappeared over the years but still are important to a county’s history.
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