Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Burris House and Potawatomi Spring, the Wabash and Erie Canal Culvert #100 and the Lockport Wabash River Bridge. Below: maps from 1962 on and old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Adams Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Adams Township.
The Burris House and Potawatomi Spring, Carrollton Bridge, and Wabash and Erie Canal Culvert No. 100 are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Adams Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
and locate on Burnett's Creek, within the present limits of Adams Township. It seems scarcely probable that this move was in the hope of reaching a more thickly settled region, for the settlement of Adams Township had not yet begim. Yet, what is now White County (or. at least, a portion of this territory), was then attached to Can-oil County, and was known as Norway Township. It may have been a desire to be nearer the county seat that prompted the removal, but, whatever the motive, Bm-nett's Creek became
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Adams Township was first invested with a civil existence by the Board of County Commissioners at a session of that body held in May, 1831. The order creating this civil division provided •' that all the territory west of the "Wabash River and east of the Tippecanoe Eiver, in Can'oll County, and above the section line one mile north of the line between Townships 25 and 26, be known as Adams Township." These boundaries were altered by subsequent orders of the board, and, five years later. Jefferson
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Adams Township.
1962Burrows sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Adams Township.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Adams Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Lockport, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Three places: the Burris House and Potawatomi Spring (listed 1977), the Wabash and Erie Canal Culvert #100 (2002) and the Lockport Wabash River Bridge (2025).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
