The city also won the Federal HUD Community Excellence Award in 1987, and the Indiana Main Street Program Honorable Mention in 1988. Blackford County s residential communities consist mainly of houses built during the late 1960s to the present. The apartments in the county are mainly of garden style with frame brick construction. Currently, the county has little to no public housing. Affordable apartments in Blackford County are dominated with Rural Development and Section 42 units.
New apartments are under construction in the city of Hartford.
They will be called Chesapeake Apartments. This complex is scheduled for completion in the fall of 1999 and will consist of 60-units. The links below will take you either to a different section or onto another website entirely .