Freeland Park, Indiana

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Freeland Park
settlement_type = Town
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = Indiana
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Benton
subdivision_type3 = Township
subdivision_name3 = Parish Grove
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latd = 40
latm = 36
lats = 52
latNS = N
longd = 87
longm = 29
longs = 28
longEW = W
elevation_footnotes = GR|3
elevation_ft = 725
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postal_code = 47944
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blank_info = 18-25792GR|2
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Freeland Park is an unincorporated town in Parish Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana.

History

Freeland Park was named for Anthony Joseph Freeland, a well-known local, and stood at the terminus of the Freeland Park branch of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. A fire in 1914 badly damaged the town's business district. In the 1920s Freeland Park had two grain elevators, a high school, a Presbyterian church and eight to ten businesses.cite book
last = Birch
first = Jesse Setlington
title = History of Benton County and Historic Oxford
origyear = 1928
year = 1942
month =
publisher = Craw & Craw
location = Oxford, Indiana
pages = p. 202
chapter = Towns of the County ]

Geography

Freeland Park is located at coor dms|40|36|52|N|87|29|28|W|city in Parish Grove Township, half a mile south of the intersection of Indiana State Roads 18 and 71.

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