Balhinch is two-mile-square
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in
Union Township,
Montgomery County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
. Balhinch includes Rattlesnake Canyon and Weir Cemetery.
History
The Balhinch area was originally settled by
William Offield
In 1821, William Offield built a cabin on a creek, (later known as Offield's Creek), four miles southwest of the future site of Crawfordsville, Indiana in an area now known as Balhinch. He and William Miller were the first two settlers in the ar ...
in February 1821, five miles southwest of
Crawfordsville in Section 21 in an area with two streams —
Sugar Creek and Rattlesnake Creek. A
monument
A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, his ...
to William Offield stands near Rattlesnake Creek.
It was formally
plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Surveys to show the distance and bear ...
ted in the 1920s and the boundaries legally defined.
Notable person
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Caroline Virginia Krout
Caroline Virginia Krout (c. 1852–1931) was an American writer.
She was born in Balhinch, near Crawfordsville, Indiana, in about1852. She wrote several novels and a collection of short stories under the pen name Caroline Brown. In addition to b ...
, author
Gallery
Image:Balhinch-residence.jpg, Residence in Balhinch
Image:Rattlesnake-gulch.jpg, Rattlesnake Canyon
Image:Offield Monument.jpg, Offield Monument on road near creek
References
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Unincorporated communities in Montgomery County, Indiana
Unincorporated communities in Indiana