Middletown is the oldest town in Logan County, founded in At one time is was considered as a location for the capital of Illinois. Instead, it became the midpoint, overnight stop for legislators traveling between Springfield and Peoria. The Stage Coach Inn, located in Middletown, is the oldest wooden structure in the state.
It is believed Abraham Lincoln surveyed the site which became the town. The census population was , down from its census population of This Middletown is very similar to Middletown, Del. The earliest references to Middletown, Ky. Merchandise was floated down the Ohio River to Westport, unloaded onto ox carts and hauled to Shippingport, where it was reloaded onto flatboats.
Middle Station was the overnight stopping point between these town river ports. Today, the city is proud of its year heritage. It had a population of 7, people in the census. The town is mostly residential, with its people commuting to Louisville and Shelbyville for employment. They just called it Middletown. They published their findings in with a detailed portrayal of a town becoming less devout and less deferent, more educated and more automated, where women were less likely to bake their own bread and more likely to work outside the home, young people lead more independent lives, where public speeches were getting shorter and schoolgirls preferred cotton to silk stockings.
Amid these shifts in gender, generation and religion, the central focus was on class. This was their central aim, to challenge the myth of meritocracy and social fluidity , and show how much the America one was born into shaped your life chances. Norman Birnbaum, a longtime Guardian reader and retired academic who contacted me on reading of this project, knew the Lynds in the late s and early s.
The book was released to rave reviews and enduring success. And so it is that Middletown , and therefore Muncie, became a proxy for the quintessential America.
They clearly wanted it to represent more than just this one community. In Robert Lynd, under pressure from his publishers, came back to do a follow-up, Middletown in Transition , which examined the effects of the Great Depression on Muncie.
We do not mind being in the spotlight. Whether Muncie liked being in the spotlight or not depended heavily on what that light exposed.
They are the ur-Americans. They are the ground zero of American life. All named entities with human habitation are classified as Populated Place, including incorporated places 20 percent of the Nation's communities , unincorporated places the majority , housing developments not yet incorporated, and neighborhoods within incorporated places.
The most frequently occurring community name varies through the years. In a past year, it was "Midway" with occurrences and "Fairview" in second with More recently, "Fairview" counted and "Midway" The name "Springfield" is often thought to be the only community name appearing in each of the 50 States, but at last count it was in only 34 states. The most recent count shows "Riverside" with occurrences in 46 States; only Alaska, Hawaii, Louisiana, and Oklahoma not having a community so named.
Board on Geographic Names BGN , contains information about the official names for places, features, and areas in the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the territories and outlying areas of the United States, including If urban legend is correct, the world turned upside down on October 19, The Patriots defeated the British at the Siege of Yorktown, paving the way for American Independence and starting an enduring trend for town names.
During this year, National Atlas of the United States and The National Map will transition into a combined single source for geospatial and cartographic information.
Photograph shows the city of Fort Collins, CO with mountains in the background. Mount Hood in the not-so-far distance beyond Downtown Portland, Oregon.
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