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                               Stats
•   Population 533


•   Males: 237 (47.7%)Females: 260 (52.3%)

•   Median resident age: 33.4 years Indiana median age: 35.2 years
•   Zip codes: 47980.
•   Estimated median household income in 2009: $31,615 (it was $40,833
    in 2000)

•   Reynolds:
•   $31,615Indiana:
•   $45,424Estimated per capita income in 2009: $17,200

•
    Elevation: 700 feet
• Perhaps more than any other town in White County,
  Reynolds is the creation of the railroads which meet
  there, almost in the geographical center of the county—
  the old Louisville, Albany & Chicago, the north and south
  line, completed in 1854, and the Pittsburgh, Chicago &
  St. Louis, the east and west route, finished in 1859. The
  original plat was dated January 10, 1854, and was
  named in honor of Benjamin Reynolds, its acknowledged
  founder. The other proprietors were George S. Rose,
  Christian Cassell and William M. Kenton. The town was
  laid out on the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter
  of section 34, township 27 north, range 4 west. Main,
  Sill, Kenton and Boone, north and south thoroughfares,
  are 66 feet wide, and First, Second, Third and Fourth,
  crossing them at right angles, are 60 feet in width.
• At the time Reynolds was laid out, two
  buildings had been erected on its site, both
  in l852—a hotel by Benjamin Reynolds, and a
  dwelling by Abraham Timmons. In the year of
  its platting Messrs. Johnson and Cole built a
  steam sawmill, the first in the township,
  which was continued for a time, but it was
  before its time and reverses and the sheriff
  overtook the enterprise. The Reynolds Hotel,
  however, in extended form, endured for
  many years before it was revamped into a
  clubhouse.
• Soon after the railroad made Reynolds a station it built a
  large yard for the accommodation of shippers of stock,
  and for several years Reynolds was the principal point in
  the county for the shipment of horses, cattle, hogs and
  sheep. Attention of outsiders was drawn to the business
  and commercial activity of the town, a fair-sized grain
  warehouse was erected, and although the hard times of
  1857 gave the place a temporary setback, it revived,
  especially when a second railroad furnished additional
  transportation in 1859. It is little wonder that it aspired to
  win the county seat from Monticello.
                       School
• The Honey Creek Township School at Reynolds is one
  of the finest buildings outside of Monticello. It was
  completed in October, 1914, at an approximate cost of
  $24,000, by the combined support of town and township.
  C. F. Heimlich and Levi Reynolds were the trustees
  during the period of its construction. The superintendent
  is F. E. Young, principal of the high school, J. J. Lavin,
  and the course of instruction embraces manual training,
  domestic science and agriculture. A good gymnasium is
  a strong feature of the school's appliances. Besides the
  superintendent and the principal there are five teachers
  to look after the mental and physical welfare of the 195
  pupils who are enrolled. Of that number, forty-five are
  high school scholars.
Reynolds is located at 40.75°N 86.87361°W
         (40.750051, -86.873716
                       Biotown
• In 2005, the Indiana State Department of Agriculture
  began a program to make Reynolds an energy self-
  sufficient community, able to subsist almost entirely on
  locally produced alternative energy. Called "BioTown,
  USA", the pilot project involved converting local vehicles
  to run on ethanol and biodiesel fuels and converting
  animal waste into electricity and natural gas.4
• Reynolds was selected to become BioTown, USA
  because of its size, its easy accessibility by road and by
  rail, and its proximity to both large-scale livestock farms
  and to Purdue University (Purdue is located in West
  Lafayette, Indiana). This process has been slow but
  Reynolds still holds the title. .
Reynolds Depot
Old Post Office
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                                Stats
•   Population 692.
    Males: 323 (51.0%)Females: 310 (49.0%)

•   Median resident age: 41.1 years Indiana median age: 35.2 years
•   Zip codes: 47925.
•   Estimated median household income in 2009: $37,084 (it was $29,583
    in 2000)

•   Buffalo:
•   $37,084Indiana:
•   $45,424Estimated per capita income in 2009: $19,147

•
    Buffalo is located at 40.88556°N 86.74083°W (40.885501, -86.740858
                    History
• Buffalo, as a town, was laid out on July 24,
  1886, by John C. Karr, an Ohio man, who had
  come with his father (Moses Karr) and settled
  with other members of the family about two
  miles west of the present site. In 1849 he had
  married and located to his farm lying along the
  east shores of the river, a portion of which he
  platted as the Town of Buffalo. He died in
  August, 1899, the father of eleven children. Both
  the Karr and the Sluyter families still hold
  valuable farming lands south of Buffalo, in
  sections 15 and 22.
• Although Buffalo obtained no railroad
  connections, it was backed by a good
  country and in 1896 Mr. Karr made an
  addition to the original plat of thirty-four
  lots, by which he nearly doubled its site.
  Until his death he took a deep interest in
  the locality and passed the last years of
  his life there. His wife also died at Buffalo
  in 1896, her husband joining her three
  years Later.
           THOMAS B. MOORE

• Across the river from Buffalo are also large holdings of
  land representing the wisely-directed industry and ability
  of another early settler in this part of the township,
  Thomas B. Moore. He was a native of the Buckeye State
  and at the age of twenty-eight, in 1852, commenced to
  buy property in section 10 and elsewhere adjacent to the
  western borders of the Tippecanoe. What was long
  known as Moore's ford, on his farm, was one of the best
  crossings in the township, but has long ago given place
  to a fine iron bridge at that locality. Mr. Moore became
  the heaviest land owner resident in the township, dealt
  largely in live stock, served for many years as justice of
  the peace, was a leader in Methodism, and altogether
  one of the leading citizens of northern White County. His
  successors do him and the family honor.
• Soon after the bridge at Moore's ford was
  completed, a county publication had the
  following description of it: "The new iron bridge
  across the Tippecanoe river at what is widely
  known as Moore's ford is one of the best in the
  county. The bridge is in two parts—one 165 feet
  long, and the other, 135 feet. It has stone
  abutments and was erected in 1882 at a cost of
  about $14,000. The Columbia Bridge Company
  at Dayton, Ohio, has the honor of putting up this
  creditable structure."
    THE SLUYTER SCHOOLHOUSE

•   In the old rough days, when Liberty Township included so much of
    northeastern White County, the people were just as busy in proportion to
    their numbers as they are today, in the very human occupations of teaching
    and learning, preaching and listening, marrying and giving in marriage,
    being born and dying. In the summer of 1837 Jonathan W. Sluyter, one of
    the expert axmen of the township, got out the logs for the first schoolhouse
    built in the township. It stood in the east half of section 15, on his land about
    three-quarters of a mile south of the Tippecanoe. He did not stop to hew the
    timber, as half a dozen children were impatiently(!) awaiting its opening. The
    cabin was 15 feet square, and David McConnahay is said to have thrown it
    open to the neighborhood, and in came the Funks, Conwells, Halls,
    Sluyters, Louders, and perhaps some other children whose names have not
    come down in history.
•   When George Hall succeeded McConnahay, a little later, the attendance
    had reached fifteen pupils. In 1838 John C. V. Shields taught a term in the
    log schoolhouse, and Lester Smith succeeded him.
•   In 1840 Mr. Sluyter built a second schoolhouse near the first, hewing the
    logs and otherwise improving upon his former work, and about five years
    afterward a still better building was erected further south in section 22.
Dotson restaurant
Round Barn
• Most common last names in Buffalo, IN
  among deceased individuals
• Last nameCount     Lived (average)
• Connell     4          69.0 years
• Davis   4        71.3 years
• Smith 4          66.5 years
• Hinshaw 3        82.3 years
• Hunt    3        80.0 years
• Miller  3        86.0 years