New Baltimore, Indiana
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New Baltimore is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in Bethel Township, Posey County, in the
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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

New Baltimore was laid out in 1837 and was once an important shipping point for river traffic. With the advent of other modes of transportation, business activity shifted to other nearby places, and the town's population dwindled.


References

Unincorporated communities in Posey County, Indiana Unincorporated communities in Indiana {{PoseyCountyIN-geo-stub