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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Anson, Indiana

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. 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.

References

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

40°51′59″N 86°3′20″W / 40.86639°N 86.05556°W / 40.86639; -86.05556