The story
Read it all →How Boone Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Boone Township.
The Lemmon's Presbyterian Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
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History · Boone Township
1 of Boone Township’s places is on the National Register
Its Register listing is the Lemmon's Church and Cemetery. Most of Boone Township was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1978. Below: maps from 1961 on and old-book passages.
1on the National Register
3%homes built before 1940
What stands out about Boone Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Boone Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Boone Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.From the old history books
What they wrote about Boone Township in 1896
Passages that mention Boone Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History and art souvenir of Dubois County1896 · page 16Read the page →
Read the text
Boone Township. The north half of section 3, township 1 south, range 5 west, was entered by Toussaint Dubois, May 7, 1807. This is also the first land entered in the county.
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.
Timeline
Boone Township, 1821 to 1961
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1821Post officeThe Portersville post office opens
- 20th century
- 1909Post officeThe Portersville post office closes
- 1961
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade
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Boone Township on the map in 1961
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Boone Township.
1961Otwell 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 Boone Township.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Boone Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1992
Lemmon's Church and Cemetery
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Greek Revival1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people
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Nobody well known was born in Boone Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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Daniel M. BuechleinRoman Catholic archbishop in the United States · b. 1938Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds
Another post office, Portersville, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
Portersville
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Boone Township
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Boone Township’s history
What is on the National Register in Boone Township?
One place: the Lemmon's Church and Cemetery (listed 1992).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
Where this page comes from
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.