unincorporated community
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U.S. state
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of
Indiana
Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...
.
History
The town of Marshfield was
plat
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ted on May 22, 1857, and named for
Marshfield, Massachusetts
Marshfield is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on Massachusetts's South Shore (Massachusetts), South Shore. The population was 25,825 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
It includes the census-designated places ...
, the home of statesman
Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th United States Secretary of State, U.S. secretary o ...
. A post office was established on April 6, 1857, which operated until 1989. In 1870, the population was 150 and, by 1900, it had grown to 250. In the late 1800s, the town had a dry goods store, a hotel, three churches, three saloons, two blacksmith shops, a grain warehouse, a wagon and carriage manufactory, a grocery store, a drug store and three physicians.
In 2007, Marshfield consisted of a number of private residences, a grain elevator, a church and a body shop.
Geography
Marshfield is located in open farmland on County Road 450 South, about west of State Road 63, at an elevation of . Chesapeake Creek begins just east of town, and an early village named
Chesapeake Chesapeake most often refers to:
*Chesapeake people, a Native American tribe also known as the Chesepian
*Chesapeake Bay
*Delmarva Peninsula, also known as the Chesapeake Peninsula
Chesapeake may also refer to:
Populated places In Virginia
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once stood about to the east. A
Norfolk Southern Railway
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line runs along the east side of town, from
Danville, Illinois
Danville is a city in Vermilion County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. The populations was 29,204 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Danville micropolitan area.
History
The area that is now Danville was on ...
, in the southwest to Lafayette in the northeast; the line carries about 45 freight trains per day.
Demographics
Education
It is in the
Metropolitan School District of Warren County
The Metropolitan School District of Warren County administers the one high school/middle school and three elementary schools in Warren County, Indiana
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Image:Marshfield Indiana map from 1877 atlas.png, Map from 1877 Warren County Atlas
Image:Marshfield-aerial-looking-southwest.png, Aerial view looking to the southwest