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History · Wabash Township

70% of Wabash Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Grouping of Religious Buildings at Trinity. Below: 18 old photos and papers and maps from 1960 on.

1on the National Register
70%homes built before 1940
18old photos & papers
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From Wabash Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Wabash Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A town in old photos18 old photos, postcards and papers.Old housesHalf of Wabash Township’s homes were built before 1938.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Wabash Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
★ What stands out · By decade

Wabash Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1930s18 items
Dairy barn1938Dairy barnFeeding chickens1938Feeding chickensTractor operator1938Tractor operatorFeeding chickens1938Feeding chickensFarm boy1938Farm boyPlanting tomatoes1938Planting tomatoesCow at Wabash Farms cooperative, Indiana1938Cow at Wabash Farms cooperative, IndianaWorking in garden1938Working in gardenTractors used in cultivation1938Tractors used in cultivationResettled farmer with team1938Resettled farmer with teamLoading supplies into shed1938Loading supplies into shedTractors used in cultivation1938Tractors used in cultivationDriving the cows from pasture1938Driving the cows from pastureResettled farmer's wife (Mrs. Lestor Barnes)1938Resettled farmer's wife (Mrs. Lestor Barnes)Large fields make tractor cultivation necessary. Wabash Farms, Indiana1938Large fields make tractor cultivation necessary. Waba…Farmer on Loogootee unit oiling tractor1938Farmer on Loogootee unit oiling tractorResettled farmer on steps of new home1938Resettled farmer on steps of new homeFamily living on part-time farming unit at Loogootee1938Family living on part-time farming unit at Loogootee
1940s–1990snothing yet
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.
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The story

How Wabash Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Wabash Township.

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The Grouping of Religious Buildings at Trinity was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, New Corydon, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Jay CityNew CorydonTrinity
Gone or out of use
Stolz Fieldairport
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Wabash Township
DaughertyStevenson

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Timeline

Wabash Township, 1844 to 1960

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1844Post officeThe New Corydon post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1938In the archiveDairy barn
  5. 1960Post officeThe New Corydon post office closes
  6. 1960On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
On the map

Wabash Township on the map in 1960

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wabash Township.

Wabash Township on the 1960 USGS map1960New Corydon sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Wabash Township.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Dairy barn
Retake this viewDairy barn, 1938

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Wabash Township’s page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Wabash Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
4
each building in a district counts
first listed
1980
Grouping of Religious Buildings at Trinity
Grouping of Religious Buildings at Trinity
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Gothic1
Grouping of Religious Buildings at TrinityGothic

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Wabash Township

Nobody well known was born in Wabash Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Richard R. Schrock1945-, American chemist · b. 1945
Twyla TharpAmerican dancer and choreographer · b. 1941
Kevin A. FordAmerican astronaut · b. 1960
Leon AmesAmerican actor · b. 1902
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Richard SchoenAmerican mathematician · b. 1950
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Mary MeekerAmerican venture capitalist and securities anal… · b. 1959
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Finish Wabash Township’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewDairy barn: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Jefferson TownshipIts storyB−Noble TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBearcreek TownshipIts storyB

Questions about Wabash Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Wabash Township?

One place: the Grouping of Religious Buildings at Trinity (listed 1980).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

From the Library of Congress (18), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.