Freeland Park, Indiana

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History

Freeland Park was platted in 1898 and named for Antoine Freeland, the original owner of the town site.[2] It stood at the terminus of the Freeland Park branch of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. A fire in 1914 badly damaged the town's business district. In the 1920s Freeland Park had two grain elevators, a high school, a Presbyterian church and eight to ten businesses.[3]

A post office was established at Freeland Park in 1901, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1957.[4]

Geography

Freeland Park is located at Script error: No such module "Coordinates"., half a mile south of the intersection of Indiana State Roads 18 and 71 and a little under two miles east of the Illinois state line. A small waterway known as Salmon Ditch runs just north of town and flows west into Illinois where it becomes Cole Creek.

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