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*First created in 1822.
*County seat: Greencastle.
Located in central Indiana.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include:
Bailey, Bainbridge, Barnard,
Belle Union, Blakesburg,
Brick Chapel, Broad
Park, Brunerstown, Cagles Mill, Carpentersville,
Cary, Clinton Falls,
Cloverdale, Cradick
Corner, Edgewood Lake, Fern, Fillmore, Fincastle,
Fox Ridge, Greencastle,
Groveland, Hamricks
Station P.O., Hirt Corner, Jenkinsville, Limedale,
Malta Station P.O., Manhattan, Morton,
Mount Meridian, New
Maysville, Oakalla Station, Pleasant Gardens, Portland
Mills, Putnamville, Raab Crossroads, Raccoon,
Reelsville, Roachdale,
Russellville, Vivalia,
and Westland.
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Surrounding Counties:
N = Montgomery
County, IN ENE = Hendricks
County, IN
W = Parke
County, IN PUTNAM COUNTY ESE =
Morgan
County, IN
SW = Clay
County, IN S = Owen County, IN
Established in 1822; County seat is Greencastle.
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- Interactive Present day Map of Putnam County, Indiana.
- Putnam County Convention and Visitors Bureau -
- 1895 Map of Putnam County, Indiana, by Pam Rietsch at: prietsch@ismi.net
- 1875 Map of Putnam County, Indiana, from Higgins Belden & Co. (see citation)
- Use the query form, at USGS, to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated places, and more. Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature. This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.
COMMERCE, TOURISM & ONLINE COMMUNITY
- Putnam County Convention and Visitors Bureau -
- Greencastle, Indiana
- Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce - Government Information
- Greencastle, Putnam County
- Cloverdale, IN Community links, news and information.
- Putnam County, Indiana Profile
·
Indiana
State Library.
o Newspaper Holdings: Holdings by county (in Indianapolis)
- DePauw University -
- Putnam County Biographies Online, hosted by Deb Murray.
- The Political Graveyard,
for Putnam County,
Indiana, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site
about
- Putnam County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
HISTORY & GENEALOGY: Articles ONLINE
- Weik’s History of Putnam County, Indiana, by Jesse William Weik, Indianapolis : B. F. Bowen & Company Publishers, 1910. – Online book
- Putnam County, Indiana Government Web Pages
- Putnam County Convention and Visitors Bureau -
- Cloverdale, Indiana Brief History
- INGenWeb for Putnam County Genealogy
- Cemeteries
- Putnam County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
- countyhistory.com: for Putnam County, by Ronald Branson!
- Putnam County Convention and Visitors Bureau -
o Indiana State Library. 140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
o Indiana Cemetery Locator Database
o Indiana Biography Index (published before 1990)
o Indiana Biography Index (published since 1990)
o Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850.
o Index of Indiana Marriages, 1993 through 2002
o Newspaper Holdings: Holdings by county (in Indianapolis)
o Images of Indiana: 92 Counties // from Adams to Whitley
o Vital Information Exchange (VINE)
- 1820 Indiana Census Index, by Lori!
- Social Security Death Index Interactive Search, on Rootsweb
- The Doughboy Center - presented by The Great War Society.
- World War II Veterans Online Information Center
- Indiana State Archives.
- Family History Resources
- Naturalization
Databases for the Indiana counties of Blackford, Dubois, Elkhart,
Floyd, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Howard, Jefferson,
ARCHIVES & LIBRARIES for Further Research
"...Cyril Johnson Room offers genealogists and historians access to the
Putnam County Historical Society materials and many other collections..."
- Putnam County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more. For example:
- The Pleasant Hill Cemetery, "read" by Emory Brattain, May 30, 1966.
- Friends Cemetery, located in Sect. 35, Twp. 13 R 5W on the George Rissler Farm, this cemetery is no longer in existence. The list was abstracted from the "Putnam County History - Indiana Sesquicentennial 1966 -pg. 392. Burial dates from 1851 to 1879.
Contacts to obtain many documents and cerified copies:
Putnam County, Indiana Government Web Pages
- Putnam County Health Department (For Birth & Death Records from ca. 1882)
Courthouse: 1 Court House Square - Fourth Floor - Greencastle, IN 46135-1502 Phone: (317) 653-5210.
- Putnam County Circuit & Superior Court Clerk (For Marriage, Divorce & Probate Records)
1 Court
- Mailing address:
County Clerk: Phone: (765) 653-2649.
1 Court
Clinton Township communities include: Clinton Falls, Morton and Portland Mills.
- Putnam County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
- Cloverdale, IN Community links, news and information.
- Cloverdale, Indiana Brief History
· Putnam County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
· Clear
Creek Cemetery, information was gathered and transcribed by Joanna and
Sarah Kimbler, contributed to genweb archives by Sharon Bryant - located at the
corner of 525N and
· The Palestine Baptist Church and Cemetery, contributed by Sharon Bryant - located three miles east of Bainbridge and one-half mile south.
Franklin Township communities include:
Carpentersville, Fincastle, Raccoon and Roachdale.
- Putnam County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
Greencastle Township communities
include: Edgewood Lake, Fox Ridge, Greencastle (the county seat) and
Limedale.
- Putnam County Convention and Visitors Bureau -
- Greencastle, Putnam County
- Greencastle Chamber of Commerce
- DePauw University -
- Putnam County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
- Putnam County Public Library
"...Cyril Johnson Room offers genealogists and historians access to the
Putnam County Historical Society materials and many other collections..."
Madison Township communities include: Brunerstown,
Oakalla Station and Vivalia. Keytsville and Vivalia are situated at the Parke and
Putnam county line.
Putnam
County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files,
portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
Including full or partial gravestone inscriptions from the following Madison
Township cemeteries:
Carpenter
Cemetery
Cole Cemetery
Hill Cemetery
Long Branch
Cemetery
Oakalla
Cemetery
Pleasant
Hill Cemetery
Morlan Cemetery
Tucker Cemetery
- Putnam County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
- Fillmore Cemetery, contributed by Sharon Bryant, from the files of the late Virginia Brann of Greencastle, IN.
- Mt.
Carmel Cemetery, contributed by Ray Allen Nichols - located 1 1/2
Mi. S.W. of
- Old Union Cemetery, contributed by Sharon Bryant - The cemetery is presently described as "pt of the East half of the Northwest quarter of Sec. 5, T14, R3W and is two miles northwest of Fillmore, Indiana...The Trustees of Fillmore Christian Church are the caretakers of this property..."
- Fillmore United Methodist Church
Monroe Township communities include:
Bainbridge, Brick Chapel and Cary.
- Putnam County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
- McCorkle-Hillis
Cemetery, contributed by Sharon Bryant - possibly the same as the
Russellville is located in the northwestern corner of Russell township, and
Putnam county. Blakesburg is near the southeastern corner of Russell
township, west of Fincastle (see
map).
- Putnam County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
Warren Township communities include:
Cradick Corner, Jenkinsville, Putnamville and Westland.
- See map for the location of Westland - situated east of Putnamville. Cradick Corner is located, on Hwy. 231, north of Cloverdale. Jenkinsville is located, on Hwy. 243, just north of the I-70 intersection.
Washington Township
communities include: Cagles Mill, Hirt Corner, Manhattan, Pleasant
Gardens, Raab Crossroads, and Reelsville. Hirt Corner is situated at the
southwestern corner of Putnam county, at the Clay county
border (see
map). Hamricks Station Post Office (historical) was located east of
the
- Putnam County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
- Lower Boone Cemetery, researched and listed by Grace Cohn and Martha Williams, both of Reelsville on Sept. 19, 1980. Transcribed with permission by Grace Cohn. Mrs. Williams is deceased..
Note: The following is a list of cemeteries in Putnam county, Indiana. It is possible there may be others which are not included below - especially such private cemeteries as family plots.
Forgey Cemetery - Latitude: 394924N; Longitude: 0865834W
La
Little
See an aerial
image or topographical map of the location of Manhattan, Indiana
(John Walden reported this cemetery and it's
coordinates, by his gps as: N39 33.536 W086
55.700. Thank you John!)
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Ann McRoden
Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching onsite, and with the vast resources of the Allen County Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical collections in North America. Search the Library's online catalogue to see some of the printed resources available for a location or topic.
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