Eagle Village, Indiana

Unincorporated community in Indiana, United States

39°57′38″N 86°14′44″W / 39.96056°N 86.24556°W / 39.96056; -86.24556CountryUnited StatesStateIndianaCountyBooneTownship EagleElevation

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896 ft (273 m)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)ZIP code

46077

GNIS feature ID433855

Eagle Village is an unincorporated community in Eagle Township, Boone County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.^[2]

History

William Miller, an early settler of the area, hired George L. Kinnard, the Marion County surveyor, to lay out a town that would be named Eagle Village.^[3]^[4] It was named from Eagle Township.^[5] The original town plat consisted of 18 blocks of 108 lots, including a post office that was established on December 15, 1832, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1858.^[3]^[6] The town's first postmaster was William Miller.^[3] In 1836 William Miller sold his farm and the remaining unsold lots in Eagle Village to Daniel Larimore, who added seven lots extending southward on the west side of the Michigan Road.^[3]

Geography

Eagle Village is located at 39°57′38″N 86°14′44″W / 39.96056°N 86.24556°W / 39.96056; -86.24556.

References

^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "Eagle Village, Indiana". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Lyons, Joan (Winter 1990). "The Eagle Village Hotel on the Michigan Road". Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. 2: 36, 37.
^ Early Life and Times in Boone County, Indiana. Carlon & Hollenbeck. 1887. p. 54.
^ Baker, Ronald L. (October 1995). From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...in Eagle Township, for which it was named.
^ "Boone County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved August 26, 2014.