Mecca Mills, Indiana
Mecca is a town in Wabash Township, Parke County, Indiana, Wabash Township, Parke County, Indiana, Parke County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 335 at the 2010 census. History The town of Mecca was platted on August 7, 1890, by Samuel Hixon and his friend Tom L. McCune. As of 1913, its population was about 1,400. A post office has been in operation at Mecca since 1888. The Mecca Covered Bridge and Wabash Township Graded School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Geography Mecca is located along the Big Raccoon Creek in the southeastern part of the county, about west-southwest of the county seat of Rockville, Indiana, Rockville. The main part of the town is on the west side of the creek, but a portion is on the east side; the Mecca Covered Bridge crosses the creek here. The Wabash River lies about to the west. U.S. Route 41 in Indiana, U.S. Route 41 passes with of the town, to the southeast. According to the 2010 census, Mecca has a t ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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