Lost White County, Indiana - by W C Madden & Maria Salvo Benson (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

White County has been acquainted with loss since its very beginning. First formed in 1834, the county saw its first citizens, the Potawatomi, removed to Kansas in September 1838. As time went by, communities like Wyoming never developed, and others like Headlee died out. Numerous high schools, including Buffalo, Idaville, Round Grove, Wolcott and six others, disappeared with consolidation in the 1960s. Longtime businesses like Bartlett Ford, Ben Franklin Dime Store, Miller's Department Store, and Kentucky Fried Chicken are long gone. Manufacturers like Bryan's Manufacturing, RCA, and McGill Manufacturing have died out, and organizations like the Knights of Pythias, Monticello Jaycees, and the Moose have faded away.

Authors W.C. Madden and Maria Salvo Benson lead a journey through vanished people and places of White County.

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About the Author

Maria Salvo Benson grew up in South Florida and relocated to Indiana, where today she is a teacher with a master's degree in education. She has written several books about the paranormal for The History Press using the pen name Dorothy Salvo Davis and Maria Salvo. W.C. Madden became a journalist in the military and achieved many awards before retiring in 1986 after a twenty-year career. He wrote his first book while still in the air force and has now authored forty-five of them. Many of those books have been published by The History Press and Arcadia Publishing.