Linton Plat Marker
Linton Plat Marker
The city now known as Linton, Indiana, received its name on November 19, 1835, when the United States Federal Government designated this small village as Linton in honor of William Crawford Linton of Terre Haute. However, the land was not surveyed and officially platted until Hannah E. Osborn and Isaac V. Coddington, businessmen in Linton, employed F. B. Cressey, the Greene County Surveyor, to lay off the original 40 lots on May 12, 1850.
As a tribute to the pioneers of the Linton area, the Tau Chapter of Tri Kappa Sorority had a monument erected near the southeast corner in Humphreys Park in 1979. The memorial plat marker was designed and engraved by the Linton Monument Company. The marker was placed on a granite base attached to a concrete footer.
The monument, which recognizes the efforts of Osborn and Coddington, has a rectangular shape with the top portion having a pointed ellipse. The identification at the top of the marker contains the following information:
LINTON, INDIANA
AND
ORIGINAL 40 LOTS
The next section of the monument is framed in the present-day boundary lines of the city of Linton. Within this section is the following information:
PRESENTED TO THOMAS BUTLER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR SAID COUNTY, MAY THE 12 DAY, 1850, FOR THE PURPOSES THEREIN MENTIONED.
Immediately below this wording and still within the outline of the present-day boundary lines is a map of the original lots. The 1850 map contained the following north-south streets (present-day names of streets are given in parentheses): Chestnut Street (Main Street), East Street (Northeast First Street), and Canal Road (Northwest First Street). The east-west alley and streets were Road Sullivan and Bloomfield State Road (State Road 54), Alley No. 1, and Vincennes and Point Commerce State (Vincennes Street).
Below the map the following inscription is given:
HANNAH E. OSBORN & ISAAC V. CODDINGTON, PROPRIETORS OF THE TOWN OF LINTON, IN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA. PLAT OF SAID TOWN FILED JUNE THE 10 DAY, 1850. 12 O’CLOCK M. TO-WIT. THE TOWN OF LINTON AS LAID OFF BY F. B. CRESSEY COUNTY SURVEYOR FOR I. V. CODDINGTON AND HANNAH E. OSBORN, PROPRIETORS THEREOF MAY THE 12 DAY, 1850. THE SAID TOWN CONSISTS OF 37 LOTS NUMBERING FROM 1 TO 37 INCLUSIVE. THE LOTS ARE 4 RODS WIDE AND 8 RODS LONG, EXCEPTING WHAT IS LAID OUT IN ALLEY NO. 1 FOR THE INTERIOR OF BLOCKS WHICH LOTS ARE 124 FEET LONG. THE STREETS ARE 66 FEET WIDE, THE MIDDLE OF THE ALLEY LOTS NO. 14 & 27 ON THE W. LINE OF SAID LOTS IS THE SW CORNER OF THE NW1/4 OF NW1/4 OF SECTION 23 TOWN 7’ N OR R. 7 W. IN GREENE COUNTY, THE COURSES ARE TAKEN BY THE COMPASS. F. B. CRESSEY C.S.G.C.
Below the city limit boundary line is a rectangle with the following:
IN HONOR OF PIONEERS OF THE 1800’S WHO PASSED THIS WAY AND TO THOSE WHO STOPPED AND HELPED TO MAKE LINTON THE LARGEST TOWN IN GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, AND TO THE DESCENDANTS OF THOSE PIONEERS IN WHOSE HANDS WE PLACE ITS WELFARE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. DONATED BY TRI KAPPA SORORITY GAMMA TAU CHAPTER 1979.
This information was used with permission from the Linton-Stockton School Corporation.
