Sandy Hook, Indiana

Unincorporated community in Indiana, U.S.

Sandy Hook was an unincorporated community in Veale Township, Daviess County, Indiana, United States.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

History

In the mid-1800s Sandy Hook had a general store, a number of homes, a saw mill, and a tavern.[9] The New York Central Railroad also had a station there (Sandy Hook Station).[9][6][8]

When Sandy Hook contained a post office it was spelled Sandyhook. It opened in 1899, and closed the next year, in 1900.[10]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sandy Hook, Indiana
  2. ^ "1980 Harold Allison articles about Daviess County "ghost towns" - Article | Daviess County Historical Society". daviesscounty.pastperfectonline.com. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  3. ^ "Daviess County, Indiana, 1908 Map, Washington". www.mygenealogyhound.com. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  4. ^ "IN_Sandy_Hook_20130425_TM_geo.pdf". Anyplace America. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  5. ^ "Engineering Soils Map of Daviess County, Indiana : Final Report" (PDF). Internet Archive.
  6. ^ a b Fulkerson, Alva Otis (1915). History of Daviess County, Indiana : Its people, industries and institutions ... with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Indianapolis, Ind. : B. F. Bowen.
  7. ^ Gahan, Daniel (2016). "Wexford Emigrants and the Irish Experience in Canal Construction in Nineteenth-Century America: Evidence from the Wabash and Erie in Daviess and Huntington Counties, Indiana, 1850". The Past: The Organ of the Uí Cinsealaigh Historical Society (32): 14–32. ISSN 2009-2040.
  8. ^ a b Federal Highway Administration and Indiana Department of Transportation (October 18, 2005). "I-69 EVANSVILLE TO INDIANAPOLIS | Tier 2 Studies | Historic Property Report | Section 2, SR 64 to US 50" (PDF). in.gov.
  9. ^ a b "Daviess County Indiana". genealogytrails.com. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  10. ^ "Daviess County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved August 31, 2014.
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