The town of New Market was platted in 1872 by Joseph White Sr., Carson Wray Sr., Joseph Kelsey and William K. White, during the construction of the S.C.L & W. Railway through the area. The construction of the line was to serve the cities of Frankfort, Crawfordsville and Terre Haute. In southern Montgomery County it passed through the communities of New Market, Waveland, Browns Valley, Crawfordsville, and Lake Holiday. The line was later sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad and abandoned in the 1970s. The post office at New Market has been in operation since 1872.
In 1893, during the run-up to Prohibition, citizens of New Market burned a saloon owned by Jake Feel; a second saloon, owned by Joe Haskins, was burned in December 1894.
Passages that mention New Market, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Montgomery county, Indiana1911 · page 801Read the page →
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stock raiser attended his efforts. He farmed in Parke county a few years, living in the city of Rockville. He became the owner of one hundred and seven acres of valuable and productive land in Scott township, adjoining the town of New Market, every foot of which is tillable. He sold this farm in 1910. In connection with general farming and stock raising, Mr. Warbritton bought and shipped live stock for a period of twenty years, becoming one of the best known stock men in this part of the country. He owns a comfortable home in New JMarket, also three acres of valuable land within the limits
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;\lr. Lawerence began life for himself as a farmer and this he has continued to follow to the present time in connection with the stock and grain business, in all of which he has been very successful. He was located at the town of New Market, shipping cattle, hogs and shee]). and buying and selling grain. He built up a very extensive business and is widely known all over this section of the .state. He is the owner of two hundred and forty acres of fine land in Brown township, all tillable but about thirt\-two acres. It is well tiled, in fact, modernly improved in e\ery way, ami on the ])lace stand a
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New Market, 1872 to 1972
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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 →
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