Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 1 old photo or paper from 1903 on and old-book passages.
Union Township dates its founding to 1889 (Wikidata). Its post office opened in 1851.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Union Township’s history is told.
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikipedia’s history of Union Township.
Organized in 1889, Union was the last of Clinton County's townships to be created. It was formed as the result of dissatisfaction among the residents of northern Center Township with "a tax donation made to secure the Clover Leaf shops at Frankfort."
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Passages that mention Union Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
From material furnished by Dr. A. Jones, we give the following record of early settlers in Union Township: The first settler within the present limits of Union Township was Timothy Bennet, who came in 1801, and located about one mile and a half northeast of the sitS'of Wilmington, a short distance from the Deserted Camp, where, with the assistance of his brother-in-law, John Hoblitt, he erected his cabin and became monarch of all he surveyed. The next to settle in Union Township belonged to a colony of emigrants consisting of eighteen families, who came to
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Schools were established in Union Township almost as soon-as a neighborhood settlement had been effected. The clearings of Todd’s Fork had scarcely been made and cabins erected, when an effort was made for a school. In 1803, ground located in Survey No. 1,558, in the northwestern part of the township, was conveyed by James Murray, of Annapolis, Md., to Nathan Linton, James Moon and Isaac Perkins, Trustees of the Society of Friends, for a meetinghouse and schoolhouse. Just what time this settlement built a cabin for school purposes, we cannot say; but, from the following statement of the late
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archive20th century atlas of Clinton County, Indiana - containing maps of villages, cities and t…One decade in the archive so far: the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Nobody well known was born in Union Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1889, according to Wikidata. Union Township’s post office opened in 1851.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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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