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Bloomfield, IN - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Bloomfield  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Bloomfield Home page. The Bloomfield Home page provides as much information as possible on Bloomfield. Knowing Bloomfield’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Bloomfield’s Home page, you will also find Bloomfield’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Bloomfield has a population of 2488. 48.6% of Bloomfield’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.4 are female. 39.1% of Bloomfield is married and 69.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $85,487, and the average rent is $525. Household median income in Bloomfield is $49,028, and the individual median income is $24,537. Bloomfield’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.2%), Black(1.6%), Hispanic(1.4%), Multiple(0.7%), Asian(0.2%), Other(0.2%).


The area where Bloomfield is located has been inhabited by Native Americans since prehistory. Tribes that have lived in the area include the Miami tribe, Kickapoo, Piankeshaw and Wea. A settlement of Woodland period people has been excavated by Indiana Ball State Universities research teams near the confluence of Richland Creek and the White River south of Bloomfield.The town of Bloomfield was laid out in 1824 when Greene County needed a new county seat due to the lack of a reliable water source for the town of Burlington.


Burlington was located west of Bloomfield near the west fork of the White River. The town's first structure was the Greene County Courthouse, a log structure, in the center of town. The current Greene County Courthouse, a brick structure built in the late 19th century, stands at the same location.


An expansion and renovation project was completed in 2008. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.In 1824, Peter Cornelius Van Slyke donated land to Greene County for the purpose of establishing a new county seat. Van Slyke was born on the Mohawk River in Schenectady County, New York, on April 5, 1766.


He migrated to southern Indiana in 1816. Van Slyke was a veteran of the War of 1812 and died on September 25, 1834. Bloomfield Jr./Sr. High School has also been home to Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame coaches Guy Glover (1954-1977) and Steve Brett (1978-1993).


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