Pine Village, Indiana
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| Country | United States |
| State | Indiana |
| County | Warren |
| Township | Adams |
| Founded | 1851 |
| Founder | Isaac and John Metsker |
| Named for | Big Pine Creek |
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| - Total | 0.1 sq mi (0.3 km²) |
| - Land | 0.1 sq mi (0.3 km²) |
| - Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km²) |
| Elevation [1] | 692 ft (211 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| - Total | 254 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| - Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 47975 |
| Area code(s) | 765 |
| FIPS code | 18-60084[2] |
| GNIS feature ID | 0441164[3] |
Pine Village is a town in Adams Township, Warren County, Indiana, United States. The population was 254 at the 2000 census.
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[edit] History
Pine Village was laid out in 1851 by Isaac and John R. Metsker, and the plat map was made by county surveyor Perrin Kent. The Methodist Church was already there; it was built several years earlier.[4]
[edit] Rail service
Rail service reached the town in 1883 with the completion of a north/south Chicago and Great Southern Railway (later the Chicago and Indiana Coal Railway) line between Attica and Fair Oaks, which subsequently came under the ownership of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. The line came to be known as the "Coal Road" for the large quantities of coal transported along it. When the C&EI floundered in the early 1920s, Charles F. Propst purchased the Coal Road and in October 1922 incorporated it as the Chicago, Attica and Southern Railroad. The CA&S was placed in receivership on August 5, 1931, and incremental abandonment occurred over subsequent years.[5] The line through Pine Village was scrapped in the fall of 1945, and the rails where pulled up using a Belgian horse and a block and tackle.[6]
The area on the east side of Pine Village near the railroad, consisting of a grain elevator and some homes, was known as Oklahoma[6] and is located at .
[edit] Football
From a historical marker entitled "Pine Village Football", located near the town fire station:
Local team was important Indiana precursor to modern professional football organizations. Clinton Beckett introduced football to Pine Village High School 1898. Town and high school teams played on bottomland, northwest of here, starting local football tradition. Town team, the Villagers, managed by C. J. Shackleton and later by Claire Rhode. Team became "professional" 1915, claiming state and regional championships. Jim Thorpe, All-American, played for Villagers in 1915 Thanksgiving Day game against Purdue All-Stars: Villagers won 29 to 0. Team was a founder of Indiana Football League 1917. Following World War I, the Villagers played intermittently until 1927.
[edit] Geography
Pine Village is located at the intersection of State Road 55 and State Road 26, near Big Pine Creek. The coordinates are (40.449953, -87.253759)[7]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²), all of it land.
[edit] References
- ^ USGS detail on Pine Village. Retrieved on 2007-09-23.
- ^ American FactFinder. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ US Board on Geographic Names. United States Geological Survey (2007-10-25). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ (1966) A History of Warren County, Indiana. Warren County Historical Society, p. 6.
- ^ Sulzer, Elmer G. (1998). "The Old Coal Road", Ghost Railroads of Indiana. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253334837.
- ^ a b Rhode, Robert T. (1966). "A Walk Around Pine Village in the Early 1920s", A History of Warren County, Indiana. Warren County Historical Society.
- ^ US Gazetteer files: 2000 and 1990. United States Census Bureau (2005-05-03). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
[edit] External links
- Census 2000 data for Pine Village
- Census 2000 Gazetteer
- Pine Village, Indiana is at coordinates Coordinates:
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