The Shelbyville News
Saturday March 20, 1948
Page 5
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YOUR TOWN — VINTON
By Hortense Montgomery
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Doblestown and Vinton were important settlements in the stage coach days,
they were stations on the old Michigan Road and served an important purpose
while the country was getting a start. Vinton was laid off March 20, 1838 by James Templeton.
Contributed by Barb Huff
There is an area just east of the Triton schools called Vinton Hills. I would assume the developer got the name from this original plat. Sandra Howley
Dick Weightman gave me a plat map that he thought "was about 1866" and it shows the town of Vinton; we have no other evidence that this town actually materialized - pmf.
Plat of Vinton
The town of
Vinton is situated on the South East Quarter of Section No. 33 in Township 14,
Range 6 East in Shelby County, Indiana. The N. E. corner of lot #24 is S 53 degrees E. 25 feet from where the
line dividing said quarter crosses the South West edge o9f the Michigan
Road. The S. E. corner of Lot No. 1 is
53 degrees W. 25 feet from where the said line crosses the N. E. edge of said
Michigan Road. Main Street is 100 feet
wide and bears North 53 degrees west, and all cross streets and allies are laid
at right angles with Main Street, the regular size of the lots is 82 ½ feet in
front, 132 feet back. The streets and
allies are in width as they are severally marked on the plat.
March 19th 1838
Scale 90 ft to one inch
Signed: Joseph B. Nickel, C.S.S.C.
State of Indiana§
Shelby County §
Before me, Milton
Robins, the Recorder of said county personally came John Andrews and James
Templeton the Proprietors of the Town of “Vinton” in said county, and
acknowledged this to be a correct plat of said town; that it was laid out by
their own consent and further they request the same to be recorded.
Given under my hand and seal this 20th
day of March 1838.
Milton Robins (seal) S.C. Ind
Recorded March 20th 1838
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