My Home Town: a History of Acton, Indiana, 1852-1994

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A history of the businesses, organizations, churches, schools, and people of Acton, Indiana. The town was founded as a rural farming community in 1852, had a “boom” heyday with a nationally known Camp/Meeting/Chautauqua Ground, and was eventually absorbed into metropolitan Indianapolis. A revealing look at the life and structure of a small Midwestern town. (This is a new edition of the original 1994 book, now in perfect binding.)

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(1994; new edition 2020; illus., 260pp.)