Moonsville was an unincorporated town in Richland Township, Madison County,

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.It was laid out in 1835 by Zimri Moon, and named for him. It flourished briefly during the abortive construction of the

Indiana Central Canal The Indiana Central Canal was a canal intended to connect the Wabash and Erie Canal to the Ohio River. It was funded by the Mammoth Internal Improvement Act, Indiana's attempt to take part in the canal-building craze started by the Erie Canal ...

, but by the end of the century it had disappeared into farmland.

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Madison County Cemeteries Commission
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