Cementville, Indiana
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Cementville 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 Jeffersonville Township,
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History

A post office was established at Cementville in 1869, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904. Production of
cement A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel ( aggregate) together. Cement mi ...
in the area caused the name to be selected.


References

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