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Blooming Grove, Indiana
An early community in Franklin County, Blooming Grove was laid out 1816 through
1817 and originally named Greensboro, after the city in Maryland from which the
founders came. The name was changed when the community petitioned the US
Government for a Post Office in the early 1830’s as the name was already
taken, the residents settled on naming their community after the township.
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the turn of the 20th century, Blooming Grove had several business
establishments, including 2 general stores, a blacksmith, a drain tile factory,
a sawmill and a few others, by the mid 1970’s only one store and a gas
stationed remained. Today it is a farming/commuting community, convenient to the
west side of Brookville Lake.
Click on the thumbnail image to view larger image, photos courtesy Don Dunaway
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Blooming Grove, March 17, 1907, Winans |
 Kiln at Blooming Grove, photo from Jim Senefeld, c.1960 |
