A Celebration for Mulberry, Madison Township, and the Area
Tuesday, June 3rd - Sunday, June 8th 2008

From an article in the Mulberry Reporter, May 12, 1910. From David W. Snyder and Leota Martin's collection, the following was submitted:

1910 Mulberry town summary by T. H. Wade
This pleasant and enterprising town is situated in nearly the center of Madison Township, on the L E & W railroad and the Indianapolis & Terre Haute Traction line. It was laid out by Wm Perrin, and the first house built in the town proper was erected by Thos (Thomas) Waldron, who is now a worthy citizen. He also open the first store and sold the first dry goods in town. When the post office was established at this point, Mr. Waldron was appointed postmaster. The town has kept in line with the growth of the country and at the present time it is said to be the second best town of its size in the State. At this time it has a population of 741 actual residents. There are 42 windows, 19 old maids, 13 old bachelors, 20 widowers in the town. There are forty-one men who are 70 years old and upward whose united ages make a total of 3121 years, averaging 76 and a fraction to a man. There are at the present time two large dry goods stores, five grocery stores, two meat markets, three hardware and implement stores, two drug stores, one printing office, five doctors, one dentist, two banks, one millinery store, two automobile stores, three barber shops, three real estate offices, two shoe cobblers, two jewelry stores, one photograph gallery, one livery barn, one furniture and undertaker store, one large common and high school building, one creamery, one Seminary school building, one large flouring mill and elevator, one feed mill, a cider and cane mill, one large planning mill, one large saw mill, two blacksmith shops, one upholster shop, three mantuamaker shops, one hotel, one restaurant, eight secret orders, three churches, one insurance company, one telephone company, seven gravel roads entering (in?) the town.

When you take in the view from the outskirts of town and into the country, you still see the roots of what the settlers saw. Fields, woodlands, and streams still remain in this most blest and bountiful land. We have more fields and fewer woodlands that what they saw in 1910, and our streams do not carry as much water as those that ran the grist mills in the area. But they remain, and like yesteryear, for our benefit and stewardship of Madison Township and the Clinton County area.

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-Editor of Publications for the Mulberry Sesquicentennial, Mrs. Dan (Dania) Remaly

Coorespondance and Donations can be mailed to:
Sesquicentennial Committee
P.O. Box 426
Mulberry, Indiana 46058

Our meeting place and day has changed for The Sesquicentennial Committee. We now meet the last Tuesday of the month, 7:00pm at the Trinity Church of Mulberry.