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From Wikipedia’s history of Edwardsport.
Alfred Simonson House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
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History · Edwardsport
Edwardsport dates to 1832, and 68% of its homes were built before 1940
Its Register listing is the Alfred Simonson House. Below: maps from 1943 on and the census since 1880.
1832founded
1on the National Register
68%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
How Edwardsport began
When was Edwardsport founded?
1832
Edwardsport dates its founding to 1832 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1880.
First census: 777 in 18802020 census: 286194 years
Founding year: Wikipedia. First post office: 1833.The full story ↓
What stands out about Edwardsport’s past
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Edwardsport’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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Edwardsport, 1832 to 1943
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1832FoundingEdwardsport is established
- 1833Post officeThe Edwardsport post office opens
- 20th century
- 1943
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
From the old history books
What they wrote about Edwardsport in 1911
Passages that mention Edwardsport, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Old Vincennes and Knox County, Indiana1911 · page 101Read the page →
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construction. He is city engineer of Oaktown, Knox county, where he has established street and sidewalk grades. During the last twelve years he has been bridge engineer for Knox county and in this capacity designed a bridge across the White river near Edwardsport. He is consulting engineer for the Gills Praire levee district of Sullivan county, Indiana, and has charge of plans and specifications of the William H. Brevoort levee in Knox county and all other levees along the Wabash and White rivers, making a total of about forty miles of levee construction in Knox county and about
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History of Old Vincennes and Knox County, Indiana1911 · page 272Read the page →
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ber of years, his time being devoted to agricultural pursuits, but in 1894 came to Edwardsport, where he has since remained. Here he entered the grocery business and later became the head of a general store, which he conducted with a high degree of success, engaging also in other enterprises. He is now president of the Edwardsport Bank and owns practically the entire stock. He is also identified with the milling business and owns forty-one out of fifty shares in the elevator just completed. For five years he was actively engaged in the lumber business but has practically suspended opera-
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.
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Edwardsport on the map, 1943 to 1980
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Edwardsport. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1943Bicknell 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 Edwardsport.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Edwardsport
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
2009
Alfred Simonson House
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
I-House1
Mid-19th Century1
Greek Revival1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
Edwardsport, census by census
Between 286 and 777 people in every census since 1880.
9 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Edwardsport’s Wikipedia page.
Famous people
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Nobody well known was born in Edwardsport itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Questions about Edwardsport’s history
What year was Edwardsport founded?
In 1832, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Edwardsport’s post office opened in 1833, and the census of 1880 counted 777 people here.
What is on the National Register in Edwardsport?
One place: the Alfred Simonson House (listed 2009).
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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, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.