Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1839-03-30
For the Palladium
CRAwFoRDsvILLE. MARCH %. 1889

Messrs. Editors Five miles west of Green
field we Sugar-crcck quite handsome
stream, affording good water power and Dor
dered by some very excellent land. The good
land along this stream, however, Is quite mar
row strip. On the east side of this stream they
have another embryo city, called New Phadel-
phla. | am very much in the notion, that in a
few years the people will see the folly of this
great rage for new towns. About one half the
little villages of the west are absolutely curses
to the country. They are frequently filled
up with idle ioafers, too lazy to work, and who
depend living off the Industrious part of COM
msnity by means Of ,rickery, knavery, and iu,-
pudence, till the neghborhood becomes too hot 10
hold them, and then they off. between two
DAYS, to depredate some other community in
the same way.
Between Sugar and Indianapolis the coun
try maintains almost an uninterrupted level, and
appears TO be rather wet for profitable cutiva-
ton. This whole country presents the appear
ance of having at one time formed the bed OF a
great lake In some places noticed peculiar
ity in the growth of the timber, that never no
ticed elsewhere. There black walnut, hick
ory lynn, red OAK white oak, buckeye, beech, pop
ing together. These trees are generally found
IN very different Soils and occupying very differ
ent situations. How they TO be all jum,bled
up together, a sycamore by the side OF swelied-
butt white oak a black walnut by scrubby beech,
sc, is, to me, rather unaccountable To see
that indigenous 10 the very best of soils,
nterspersed with those which almost universally,
in the west, denote an opposite quality of land,
mas something the appearance Of a freak OF ma
ture. The village of Cumberland is situated 10
miles east of Indianapolis, in a neghborhood des-
ii,niA aS -'~'~- I-~-----7''-7 90 '''.0 sooH
firms in this vicinity. but the country generally
( does not appear susceptible of very high state
of cultivation.
Indianapolis, the capitol Of this Hooser nation,
is s,uuacd Immediately on the east bank of White
river, and surrounded with good land is in
the State. The Central canal runs through In
dianapos, and creates a very large amount Of wa
ter power. A number of factories of different
kinds are 10 be erected the coming season. This
will give spur to business of every descrip-
ton, not only IN town, but the surrounding
country for great many miles This place has
heretofore been rather deficient in the item of wa
ter power, but the canal will furnish suf1iciency
for almost every purpose required by the country
for half century to come. The truth Is, the
water power at this one point, is worth more &c
the country than the whole cost Of the canal from
, this place the feeder. Looking to the situa
ton OF Indianapolis, being very near the centre
OF the State, having large extent of first rate
land surrounding it, being the seat of the State
government, with the great National Road run
ming through it from east to west, and the cen
trail canal from north TO south, connecting III,
lakes with the Ohio river and also Il rail road t.
Madison, TO all human foresight nothing can pre-
; vent its being, in a few years, the best milan
). town in the west. want to say something abou
our state house. What shall it be, | canno
. describe il scientifically, for want of knowledg
Il of the technical terms necessary. But mus
say that it is really object well worthy the &C
: mira,ion and pride of US Hoosiers Ii is situate
Z in the western part of the town Immediately 0
> the north side of the National Road, standing o
l., a considerable eminence. II rears its ma JEST
u dome far above every object around it. Tn
u square is surrounded by neat and substanti;
) fence, and is filled with young scIons Of ever
forest tree native of the state Sc out without an
Il regard to ORDER but scattered about In most bea
II irregulari,y, just as they found their pr
neval forests.
Leaving Indianapolis, pursued \. w. eour
-, to this place, Charlottesville, which is the seat
4 JUSTICE ofMontgomery county. Its north weste
y. suberb Is washed by Sugar river, most beau
Y ful and valuable stream, afIordine an abundan
of water power, stone, &c. Tue land befss,
;, Indianapolis and this place is rather inclined
I'd be wet, but is generally good land. wen timbs
ed, and is settling very rapidly. On Whteli
y, ii miles from Indianapolis very fl
farms, in the neighborhood of Brownsburg.
:. Jaisestown in the corner OF Boone COUNTY, "
F. one Of these day. be village not to be sneez
III at. There is some very excellent land in ITS
cnlty, and impro& ement seem TO be on the Da
Crocke,, plan-"going ahead
- Montgomery county, one thing taken W
1t. another, is perhaps as good county any IN
be State, Sugar river bissects it from " E. 10 S.
~ affording ample supply of water power torou!
=, out rs entire length. On this stream are gr
he many extensive quarries of the best kind of sto
to both lime and freestone; and 1t is said that
I'D nv excellent bed of stone-coal has recently b.
pun found IN south ives, corner Of the county, ab