Sandy Hook, Indiana
Sandy Hook was an unincorporated community in Veale Township, Daviess County, Indiana, United States.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
History
[edit]In the mid-1800s Sandy Hook had a general store, a number of homes, a saw mill, and a tavern.[9] The New York Central Railroad also had a station there (Sandy Hook Station).[9][6][8]
When Sandy Hook contained a post office it was spelled Sandyhook. It opened in 1899, and closed the next year, in 1900.[10]
References
[edit]- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sandy Hook, Indiana
- ↑ "1980 Harold Allison articles about Daviess County "ghost towns" - Article | Daviess County Historical Society". daviesscounty.pastperfectonline.com. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Daviess County, Indiana, 1908 Map, Washington". www.mygenealogyhound.com. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
- ↑ "IN_Sandy_Hook_20130425_TM_geo.pdf". Anyplace America. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Engineering Soils Map of Daviess County, Indiana : Final Report" (PDF). Internet Archive.
- 1 2 Fulkerson, Alva Otis (1915). History of Daviess County, Indiana : Its people, industries and institutions ... with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Indianapolis, Ind. : B. F. Bowen.
- ↑ Gahan, Daniel (2016). "Wexford Emigrants and the Irish Experience in Canal Construction in Nineteenth-Century America: Evidence from the Wabash and Erie in Daviess and Huntington Counties, Indiana, 1850". The Past: The Organ of the Uí Cinsealaigh Historical Society (32): 14–32. ISSN 2009-2040. JSTOR 26202840.
- 1 2 Federal Highway Administration and Indiana Department of Transportation (October 18, 2005). "I-69 EVANSVILLE TO INDIANAPOLIS | Tier 2 Studies | Historic Property Report | Section 2, SR 64 to US 50" (PDF). in.gov.
- 1 2 "Daviess County Indiana". genealogytrails.com. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Daviess County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved August 31, 2014.
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