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WELLS COUNTY, Indiana
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*First created in 1835.
*County seat: Bluffton.
Located in north eastern Indiana.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include:
Bluffton, Craigville, Dillman, Domestic, Greenville, Greenwood, Jeff,
Keystone,
Kingsland, Liberty Center, McNatts, Mt. Zion, Nottingham, Ossian,
Petroleum,
Phenix, Poneto, Reiffsburg, Rockford, Tocsin, Travisville, Uniondale,
Vera
Cruz, Wellsburg, and Zanesville.
Townships in Wells County
(North = Top)
|
Union Township |
Jefferson Township |
|
Rock Creek Township |
Lancaster Township |
|
Liberty Township |
Harrison Township |
| Jackson Township |
Chester Township |
Nottingham Township |
Surrounding Counties:
N = Allen
County, IN
W = Huntington
County, IN WELLS COUNTY
E = Adams
County, IN
SW = Grant
County, IN S = Blackford
County, IN SE = Jay
County, IN
- Miami
Nation
of Indians
- P.O. Box 41 - Peru, Indiana 46970 Phone: (765) 473-9631.
- The web site was at
www.miamiindiansofindiana.org, however, it does not appear to be
accessible at this time.
- Annuity
Payroll: June 12, 1895,
on the USGenWeb for
Miami County
- The MYAAMIA Project,
from the Miami Nation and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
- Indians of
Indiana - Guide which includes migration maps,
from Ray's History
and Guide to Terre Haute
-
Information about the Illinois-Miami
language.
- Miami History, by
Lee Sultzman
- Miami Tribe of
Oklahoma
-
Miami Tribal Library
- Indian Nations -
Indian Territory, for the
Miami
Nation, online at the Oklahoma USGenWeb
-
Native American Census Enumeration - information about
- The
Big
Miami Reserve, Article by Historian, Carl Leiter, includes maps - In
1819: "...The largest of these [Miami Indian towns] in north central
Indiana
was located at the confluence of the Mississinewa and Wabash rivers and
was
named "Missinewa Town" on the Surveyors' plat of the region. ..."
- Glenn A. Black
Laboratory Current Research Publications Menu
-
An Introduction
to the Prehistory of Indiana, by
James H. Kellar, online at the Glenn Black Laboratory of
Archaeology, Reproduced with the permission of the Indiana Historical
Societies.
-
Index of Miami
Names, Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology and
The Trustees of
Indiana University
- The Research
Experiences of the Miami Nation of Indiana, by Darryl Baldwin, Miami
of Indiana---Graduate student in Linguistics at the University of Montana.
Coordinator of the Indiana Miami Language and Cultural revitalization program.
- French-Canadian Associations:
PRDH, The Comprehensive Site
of Quebec French-Canadian Genealogy
Wells County Communities
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PROFESSIONAL
HISTORICAL GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Ann
McRoden
Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching on-site, 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.
Printed resources for this page include:
- Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer. First Edition,
Second
Printing. Yarmouth, Maine: Delorme. 1998.
- School and Library Atlas of the World. Fred W.
Foster, Ph.D. (Editor). Sycamore, Illinois: School and
Library Publishing Company. 1982.
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