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Surnames: Culver
Classification: Query
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Culver's Station changed its name to Crane Station, supposedly at the behest of the
post office service because there was another Culver in Indiana. Today it is sometimes
referred to as Crane. Both names refer to Michael Crane Culver, who owned the land on
which it stood. It is still on some highway maps as Crane or Crane Station. It is/was the
location of a grain elevator, also. It is on the township line between Wea and Sheffield
townships. It can be reached from Sheffield township by following Wyandotte Road west
across US 52. There isn't much left there but a few houses, but it was an important
commercial center in the 1860s. War rallys were held there, and the men from the
surrounding farms listed Culver's Station as their home town, probably in part because
they picked up their mail there. It was a community center. The train tracks got there
before they were built through nearby Dayton, and with that, the telegraph, hence the word
"Station" in the name. These amenitie!
s didn't get to Dayton until the 1870s, although Dayton was a larger town.