unincorporated community
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Montgomery County Montgomery County may refer to:
Australia
* The former name of Montgomery Land District, Tasmania
United Kingdom
* The historic county of Montgomeryshire, Wales, also called County of Montgomery
United States
* Montgomery County, Alabama
* Montg ...
, in the
U.S. state
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of
Indiana
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.
History
Bowers was platted by Christina and L. M. Dunbar in 1901.
L. M. Dunbar was Lewis Morton Dunbar.
Bowers was originally named "Bowers Station" and was a railroad stop.
Education
Previously Bowers had its own elementary school, while high school students went to school in
Darlington
Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. It lies on the River Skerne, west of Middlesbrough and south of Durham. Darlington had a population of 107,800 at the 2021 Census, making it a "large town" ...
. In 1959, the Bowers elementary school merged into the Darlington Elementary School.