Suman, Indiana
Unincorporated community
Suman is located in Indiana
Suman
Suman
Suman is located in the United States
Suman
Suman
Coordinates: 41°32′36″N 86°59′58″W / 41.54333°N 86.99944°W / 41.54333; -86.99944
CountryUnited States
StateIndiana
CountyPorter
TownshipJackson
Elevation
[1]
742 ft (226 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
46383
Area code219
GNIS feature ID444384[1]

Suman was unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Porter County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.[1][2][3] Old Suman Road is in the area.[4]

History

An older variant name of the village was Sumanville.[5] It was originally laid out in 1873[6] by Isaac C. B. Suman (1831-1911), who had served during the Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment. A post office was established and operated until 1894.[7] A justice of the peace sat at Sumanville.[8] A nation-wide medical register and directory from 1886 reported the town's population as two-hundred.[9]

Suman was near the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line that ran through the area[10] (which is now part of CSX Transportation Garrett Subdivision). A derailment took place outside of Suman station in 1923.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Suman, Indiana
  2. ^ "Sumanville". March 26, 1991. p. 79 – via newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Counties of Porter and Lake Indiana (PDF), F.A. Battey and Co., 1882, p. 203, Sumanville is a very small ville in the southwestern part of the township on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. A post office was established here about nine years ago, with Col. I. C. B. Suman as Postmaster. He held the office until about two years since, when Robert S. Greer took it, and still keeps it. A Mr. Jones established a store here when the railroad was built, but kept open only four or five months. Another store was started here in 1881, but was closed in about four months.
  4. ^ "Porter County Precint Map". Porter County. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
  5. ^ "USGS detail on Suman - Variant Citation". Retrieved April 3, 2017.
  6. ^ Ronald L. Baker, Ronald L. Baker (1995), From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History, Indiana University Press, p. 316, ISBN 9780253328663
  7. ^ "Porter County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved April 3, 2017.
  8. ^ Annual Reports of the Officers of State of the State of Indiana, State of Indiana, 1884
  9. ^ Polk's Medical Register and Directory of the United States and Canada, R. L. Polk & Company, 1886
  10. ^ History of Porter County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, Lewis Publishing Company, 1912
  11. ^ "Engineer Dead". The Chesterton Tribune [Volume 40, Number 25, Page 1, Column 6]. Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana. August 30, 1923.
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