Bennetts Switch, Indiana

Bennetts Switch is an unincorporated community in Allen Township, Miami County, Indiana.[1]

History

Bennetts Switch (historically spelled with the apostrophe, Bennett's Switch) was laid out shortly after the Lake Erie and Western Railroad was built through the settlement.[2] The community was named for landowner Baldwin M. Bennett, a native of New York.[2] A post office was established at Bennetts Switch in 1862, and remained in operation until 1935.[3]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bennetts Switch, Indiana
  2. 1 2 Bodurtha , Arthur Lawrence (1914). History of Miami County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests. Lewis Pub. p. 181.
  3. ↑ "Miami County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 22 August 2015.

Coordinates: 40°35′06″N 86°06′46″W / 40.58500°N 86.11278°W / 40.58500; -86.11278


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