The region of Fairmount, Indiana, was first settled "along Back Creek in the late 1820s and early 1830s" by North Carolina Quakers who were "escaping the moral blight of a southern society based on human slavery." By the mid-nineteenth century, these Quakers had established an agricultural community around the new town of Fairmount, named for Philadelphia's "Fairmount Park." The Civil War had its effects on the young town, as many citizens fought and several died in support of their Northern cause. Fairmount's growth stalled for a few decades following the war, but the expansion of the...

The early 1870s saw the expansion of the Grant County road system, advances in public education and fire management, and recognition of individual property rights of Native Americans. These fascinating abstracts tell the complete story of Grant County life in the 1870s and include notices of births, deaths, marriages, arrests, murders, property ownership, advertising, occupations, accidents, fires, relocations, and local events. This user-friendly book is arranged in alphabetical order and includes a full-name index of maiden names.

The town of Fairmount is located on the Back Creek in Fairmount Township, Grant County, Indiana. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Quakers established the town, naming it for the beautiful "Fairmount Park" in the Quaker city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Civil War claimed the attention of the community and also claimed the lives of several who died in the Northern army. Growth of the town and its population following the war was slow but soon quickened with the coming of the railroads. Natural gas discoveries and gas exploitation dominated the 1890s. Factories, particularly glass...