Geetingsville, Indiana
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Geetingsville 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 ...
on the border of
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townships in
Clinton County Clinton County may refer to: *Counties named for George Clinton, first and third Governor of New York, and later the fourth Vice President of the United States: **Clinton County, New York ** Clinton County, Ohio *Counties named for DeWitt Clinton, ...
,
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.


History

Never officially
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ted, the village of Geetingsville was a small social and business center with a general store, a blacksmith shop and a physician (Dr. M. V. Young). In the 1880s the
Presbyterians Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders, known as "presbyters". Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word ''Pr ...
erected a brick church in Geetingsville. Geetingsville had a post office between 1856 and 1905. Henry W. Geeting served as postmaster.


References

Unincorporated communities in Clinton County, Indiana Unincorporated communities in Indiana {{ClintonCountyIN-geo-stub