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Port Gibson is a former community in
Gibson County, Indiana Gibson County is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 33,011. The county seat is Princeton. History In 1787, the fledgling United States defined the Northw ...
, in the
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History

Port Gibson was
plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in 1852 when the Wabash and Erie Canal was extended to that point. It declined shortly thereafter with the advent of the railroad. A post office was established at Port Gibson in 1852, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1863.


References

Geography of Gibson County, Indiana 1852 establishments in Indiana {{GibsonCountyIN-geo-stub