The story
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From Wikipedia’s history of Salamonie Township.
Salamonie Township was organized in 1835. It was named from the Salamonie River.
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History · Salamonie Township
31% of Salamonie Township’s homes were built before 1940
More historic than 97% of U.S. towns. What drives it
1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: maps from 1950 on and the census since 1890.
1on the National Register
31%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
Where Salamonie Township’s name came from
How did Salamonie Township get its name?
Salamonie Township was named from the Salamonie River.
How historic is Salamonie Township?
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What drives the grade ↓More historic than 97% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Name: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Salamonie Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Salamonie Township is more historic than 97% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs put Salamonie Township near the top nationally; its National Register listings ranks highest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Salamonie Township’s overall grade.
Founding eraNo founding year we can rely on, so the grade uses the other two–Homes built before 194030.5% of homes (±6.4) · typical IN town 14.4% · U.S. 8.4%ANational Register1 listing, 55 historic buildings, 231 per 10,000 residents · typical IN town 7.9 · U.S. 2.4A
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 97%
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Indiana towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Indiana town has 7.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Salamonie Township’s 231 sits above most of its state (89% of Indiana towns have fewer) while its 55 historic buildings outnumber those of 86% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.4 points).
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Salamonie Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Salamonie 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.People over time
Salamonie Township, census by census
Peaked at 3,152 in 1900; 2,260 people lived here in 2020.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Salamonie Township’s Wikipedia page.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Salamonie Township, 1887–1914
Passages that mention Salamonie Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Huntington County, Indiana1900Read the page →
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Salamonie Township comes very nearly having the honor of the first school in the county. In September, 1833, Samuel Jones came from Highland County, Ohio, with his family, and settled in this township, being the first settler. Others followed, and among them John McGrew. Soon after his arrival in the settlement he was employed as a private tutor in the family of Samuel Jones. This work was soon observed by the other members of the settlement, and at last public sentiment was aroused
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History of Huntington County, Indiana1887 · page 388Read the page →
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Salamonie Township comes very nearly having the honor of the first school in the county. In September, 1833, Samuel Jones came from Highland County, Ohio, with his family, and settled in this township, being the first settler. Others followed, and among them John McGrew. Soon after his arrival in the settlement he was employed as a private tutor in the family of Samuel Jones. This work was soon observed by the other members of the settlement, and at last public sentiment was aroused
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History of Huntington County, Indiana1914 · page 347Read the page →
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Another old cemetery of Salamonie Township is the Thompson cemetery, situated in the western part of Section 13, near the present Buckeye Station on the Clover Leaf Railroad. The first person interred here was Mrs. Permelia Thompson, wife of Ebenezer Thompson, whose death occurred on September 25, 1849. For a number of years the place was used as a burying ground for members of the Thompson family and their immediate friends, until John II. Thompson came into possession of the land and dedicated the cemetery to the use of the general public.
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History of Huntington County, Indiana1914 · page 117Read the page →
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reservations, the sound of the woodman’s ax became more and more fre¬ quently heard, log-rollings were greatly facilitated, and within ten years after the first pioneer came, there were a number of fairly well improved farms in Salamonie Township. In addition to this development, the Town of Warren had been laid out by Samuel Jones and had become a trading point of some consequence.
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
Salamonie Township, 1879 to 1950
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Salamonie Township on the map, 1950 to 1969
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Salamonie Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1950Warren 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 Salamonie Township.
On the National Register
1 listing protects 55 historic buildings
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
55
each building in a district counts
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Salamonie Township
Nobody well known was born in Salamonie Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds
Another post office, Buckeye, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
Buckeye
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Salamonie Township
Red MenThompsonWest UnionWoodlawn
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 Salamonie Township’s history
How does Salamonie Township rank for history?
Salamonie Township is more historic than 97% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Salamonie Township?
31% of Salamonie Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.4 points), against a typical 14% for an Indiana town; the median home was built in 1972.
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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).
From 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.