Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Reheated Monday Morning Coffee: Pennville, Indiana


Pennville a town in Penn Township, Jay County, Indiana that was settled by Hicksite Quakers.  

They were mostly country Friends who perceived urban Friends as worldly. They split from Orthodox Friends in 1827 due the views of Elias Hicks.
  
The population was 706 at the 2000 census which, by July, 2017 dropped to 548.

   Pennville, Indiana.

From 1903 until 1917, the Cincinnati, Bluffton and Chicago Railroad, sometimes referred to as the CB&C, ran through Pennville.

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