unincorporated community
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and
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
Indiana
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Howe was settled in 1834. At that time, it was named "Mongoquinong", a name that the
Potawatomi
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people had given to the prairie in northeastern Indiana. Shortly thereafter it was renamed "Lima" and was, at that time, the
county seat
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. It was later renamed "Howe" after John B. Howe, a local attorney.
The Howe Military School, the town's most famous attraction, was founded in 1884.
Local places on the National Register
Sites in Howe on the
National Register of Historic Places
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Howe is located in northern LaGrange County at the intersection of State Road 120 and State Road 9. It is the principal community in Lima Township. It is south of Interstate 80/90 (the
Indiana Toll Road
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), and north of
LaGrange
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi LagrangiaPigeon River, a tributary of the St. Joseph River, flows westward along the southern edge of the community.