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Putnam county was named in honor of General Israel Putnam, of
revolutionary fame. The surface in the northern and eastern parts of
the county, is, in some places, level, and in others
gently undulating, and before being improved was quite wet. In the centre and southwest it is rolling, and in the vicinity of the streams is, in places, quite hilly, yet but few of the hills are too steep to be cultivated. The prevailing timber is beech, sugar tree, walnut, ash, oak and poplar. The soil is, in general, a black loam, but in some parts clay. It is a good agricultural county, and has had good prosperity, both in wealth and population. Greencastle is the county seat, and is a thriving town of about four thousand five hundred inhabitants, with good public improvements and educational facilities. The chief attraction of the place is the Indiana Asbury University. The town has excellent railroad facilities. The Indianapolis, Vandalia and St. Louis Railroad intersects its southern, and the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad its northern limits. The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad crosses the former a mile and a half to the southwest, and passing through the western border of the city, it crosses the latter a half mile north of the public square. These three railroads, by means of their numerous connections, afford almost hourly communication with all portions of the country, and render the site particularly eligible for an institution of learning. The city extends over a high plateau, bounded by the several railroads a little more than a mile square. The founders of the university were fortunate in selecting for its situation a place so admirably fitted by nature to all the purposes of educational demand. The citizens, through the lapse of the years, have added to its natural advantages whatever industry and taste could effect. With salubrity of atmosphere, purity of water, and the uniformly large grounds connected with the homes of the people, the city has been reputable for its healthfulness, and rendered desirable as a place of residence. The attractions of the place have been such as to allure a class of inhabitants very superior in their intelligence, morals and rank in social life.
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