Moores Hill’s post office opened in 1823, and 28% of its homes were built before 1940
Its Register listings are the Carnegie Hall of Moores Hill College and the Moore's Hill United Methodist Church. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1916 on, and the census since 1850.
Platted in 1839 by Adam Moore and Andrew Stevens, it originally contained nine lots adjacent to Moore's gristmill. The community was originally known as Moores Mill, but postal authorities misspelled it Moores Hill, and the name stuck.
Many early settlers in the town were Methodist families from Delaware and the shore of Maryland. The first mercantile business was established by Samuel Herron.
Carnegie Hall of Moores Hill College and Moores Hill United Methodist Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Passages that mention Moores Hill, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Dearborn County Indiana1915 · page 472Read the page →
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In 1818 Adam Moore, a Methodist preacher from Maryland, settled in the wilderness near the western boundary of Dearborn county. He was the first inhabitant of the town of Moores Hill — the seat of Moores Hill College. His son, John C. Moore, became a prominent business man in the early fifties. In the spring of 1853 the Rev. W. W. Snyder, agent for Brookville College, called on J. C. Moore to solicit a subscription for that institution. This started him to thinking. Why not put the money in an institution at home, thus pro¬ viding a college education for our children ? Mr. Moore had the thought that
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History of Dearborn County Indiana1915 · page 219Read the page →
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Nine lots were originally laid out in the vicinity of what is commonly called Moores Hill, which were acknowledged by Spencer Davis, John Dashiell, and a Mr. Ablamoung, trustees of Wesley meeting house at Moores Hill, March 10, 1838. The original plat is said to have been laid out by Adam Digitized by LjOOQLe
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Hill College, in the deparlnieut of science, and at the end of the fourth year, in 1893, he became assistant in the department of biology at the Johns Hopkins University, of Baltimore, and in 1894, he returned to Moores Hill, where he gave instruction in biology anfl geology, and in 1901 he was made vicepresident of Moores Hill College, which office he held until November, 191 5.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
By decade
Moores Hill, decade by decade
One decade in the archive so far: the 1870s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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 Wikimedia Commons (5), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) 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.
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