Dunnington is a small

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 Parish Grove Township, Benton County, in the

U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...

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

Named for Capt. James Dunn, it stands about one and a half miles west of its smaller sister town, Dunn. A post office was established at Dunnington in 1888, and was discontinued in 1903. In the early 20th century it supported a Catholic church and school, a general store, a Forresters lodge and about half a dozen residences (an estimate similar to the town's current size). St. Mary's Catholic Church, established in the late 19th century, was renovated in the early 1950s and was home to St. Mary's Catholic School, which closed in the late 1960s.

Geography

Dunnington is located at , on the border of Parish Grove Township and Hickory Grove Township, two miles east of the border with

Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...

Indiana State Road 71 State Road 71 (SR 71) is a north–south discontinuous List of State Roads in Indiana, state road in the west-central Indiana part of the US state of Indiana. The southern segment is completely within Vermillion County, Indiana, Vermillion ...

passes north through the town, and a small creek named Kult Ditch flows northwest toward Mud Creek.

Notable people

* George Gick, baseball player.

References

Unincorporated communities in Benton County, Indiana Unincorporated communities in Indiana Lafayette metropolitan area, Indiana 1888 establishments in Indiana {{BentonCountyIN-geo-stub