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460
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$61,023
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America/Indiana/Indianapolis
47929
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Chalmers, IN - History
We would like to provide the residents of Chalmers a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Chalmers Home page. The Chalmers Home page provides as much information as possible on Chalmers. Knowing Chalmers’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Chalmers’s Home page, you will also find Chalmers’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Chalmers has a population of 460. 50.4% of Chalmers’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.6 are female. 55.8% of Chalmers is married and 74.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $93,811, and the average rent is $810. Household median income in Chalmers is $61,023, and the individual median income is $37,143. Chalmers’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.7%), Multiple(3.3%).
Chalmers dates back to the early 1850s. Land was donated by Gardner Mudge to the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway in 1854 after the company constructed a rail line through Big Creek in 1853. Mudge and his brother-in-law operated a general store. On April 21, 1854, a Post Office was established with Mudge serving as postmaster. Chalmers was platted on July 24, 1873; it included 103 lots on six streets.
Several homes and stores were erected, and a school was constructed in the early 1870s. The first church was organized in 1878, and a tile factory was erected in the same year. The Bank of Chalmers was established by Jacob Raub in the early 1890s with a capital of $10,000. Chalmers became an incorporated town in 1892.
"The Ledger" served as the first community newspaper, published initially in 1893. In 1895, a train station which later became a symbol of the town's history was constructed. The village was originally known by many as "Mudge's Station," after Gardner Mudge. The name "Chalmers" was listed on railroad timetables of New Albany and Salem as early as 1856.
By 1912, Chalmers had approximately 600 residents. It consisted of two grain elevators, a factory, fifteen stores, two banks, two livery barns, three blacksmith shops, a lumber yard, two hotels, two garages, and dozens of homes. Although the depot was demolished in 1976, the railroad which passes through Chalmers is still in use and is operated by CSX Transportation. An archive of the town's history is maintained by the Chalmers Historical Society.
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