Wakefield is an

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 Spencer County,

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, United States. Wakefield lies on

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midway between Taylorsville and Bloomfield. Wakefield was named after Wakefield Farm, a nineteenth-century homestead. William Clarke Quantrill, a

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raid leader, was ambushed and killed by Union troops at Wakefield Farm in May 1865. Country musician Bill Carlisle was born at Wakefield in 1908.

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