Ashland 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 Liberty Township, Henry County,

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History

Ashland was originally called Mullen's Station. The town was officially renamed Ashland, likely after the city of

Ashland, Ohio Ashland is a city in Ashland County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is approximately 66 miles southwest of Cleveland. The population was 19,225 at the 2020 census. It is the center of the Ashland Micropolitan statistical area, wh ...

, in the 1850s. A post office was established as Ashland in 1848, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1910.

References

Unincorporated communities in Henry County, Indiana Unincorporated communities in Indiana {{HenryCountyIN-geo-stub