The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Belleville was laid out in 1829. The community experienced growth soon after by the building of the National Road through it, but declined in the 1850s when the new railroad missed it by more than a mile.
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No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Belleville is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Belleville has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Sugar Grove Meetinghouse and Cemetery in Plainfield, 4.2 miles away.
Belleville and the nearest listed places
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Closest to Belleville
Sugar Grove Meetinghouse and CemeteryPlainfield · Late Victorian4.2mi
Hendricks County Bridge Number 316Plainfield · Pinned Warren4.5mi
McCormack-Bowman HouseFranklin · Building4.6mi
THI and E Interurban Depot-SubstationPlainfield · Italianate4.7mi
Plainfield Historic DistrictPlainfield · Queen Anne4.9mi
Hendricks County Bridge Number 316Plainfield · Pinned Warren4.5miMcCormack-Bowman HouseFranklin · Building4.6miTHI and E Interurban Depot-SubstationPlainfield · Italianate4.7miPlainfield Historic DistrictPlainfield · Queen Anne4.9miHow a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Sugar Grove Meetinghouse and Cemetery’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Belleville?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Belleville’s story, or a memory of it.
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.