![]() ![]() Southport has its own city government, but they also vote for the chief executive of Marion County…which happens to be the Mayor of Indianapolis, as well. An excluded city (or town) is one in which is not included in the city of Indianapolis after the creation of UniGov. That area is Southport, an excluded city in Marion County. Many people looking at a map of Marion County would recognize, almost immediately, a different colored area in the south central part of the county. I have to start to tell the story of a Decatur Township village by telling the story of another village in Perry Township. ![]() If you would like to see this map in its entirety, the link is here: Wagner’s Map of Marion County, Indiana, 1933. A road named, apparently, after the landowner at the corner of that road and Banta Road.Īlso, US 31, which until 1941 used what is now Madison Avenue, is marked as Madison Road, its original name from the 1830’s. But looking at it, it is Main Street and Derbyshire Road. The road leading north out of Southport, east of the railroad, has no marked name on the map. But the rest south of there are just given the addressing labeled names: S. Looking at Perry Township again, from Edgewood Avenue south, Edgewood Avenue and Banta Road have names. 90).īut some of the modern names are included on this map. ![]() 40th, in Perry Township at least, is Gray Road.Įvery other map of Marion County that I have ever seen includes road names, nothing like this addressing numbering system.ġ933 Wagner’s Map of Marion County, Indiana, showing south central Perry Township, bordered by Shelby Street (E. If you know the addressing system in Indianapolis (Marion County), it is easy to figure out which road is which. 120th is now Carroll Road, formerly known as County Line Road East. 110,” both north and south were known as Franke Road at the time of the printing of this map. The east streets in the picture to the left are the interesting ones. numbered roads are now streets of the same number. That is Vermont Street from Cossell Road west. The one numbered street on this map that doesn’t have a number now is “N. x” are actually numbered that today, as long as it is above 10. To the left are just the first two columns of the above index. Index of Marion County roads as listed on the Wagner’s Map of Marion County, Indiana, 1933, Columns 1 and 2 ![]()
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