Thanks to Carol and L.A. for the info on churches and Crane/Culver's
Station. There are a couple of other churches in Wea township on roads
nearby. One of these must be the Spring Grove Presbyterian Church. Will have
to check. Looks like the Morris marriage took place in the home, however, if
it was actually in Culver's Station.
I drove through Crane Station about a year ago just to see what was there.
There were several homes, all near the railroad, and the road crossed the
railroad. I think there is/was an elevator there, as well. The railroad went
through there in the early 1850s. There used to be a train station and
telegraph there, and a store and post office. One estimate put the
population at 150. There is a school (probably Elliotts) just down the road
in Sheffield township. I found some newspaper articles about a robbery at
the store and rallies for raising troops and supplies there during the Civil
War. Lincoln's funeral train went through there. Before the train came
through Dayton (in the late 1870s), the mail and freight for Dayton were
delivered there. It seems it used to be quite a civic center.
___Carol Cain, Sun Lakes, AZ, wrote:
You probably already know this, but I noticed that there is the symbol
of a church near Culver's Station on the reproduced 1876 Atlas map of
Tippecanoe Co. It shows in sec 23, with Culver's Station in sec 24. There
is no label for the church on the map --sorry.
___LA Clugh wrote:
It was in Wea township. Had a train station and must have been a little bit
of a town two.
Near the intersection of CR 450 S & 450 E. Crane or aka,Culver Station was
the site of the bad train wreck
in the civil war on Halloween night in 1864. Remember the Union soldiers
buried at Greenbush cemetery?
That wreck.
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