The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗When the town was laid out on September 20, 1827, it was called Eugene Station, though it was also called Osonimon after an Indian chief of that name. It was later renamed after the village of Cayuga and Cayuga Lake in the state of New York; an early settler named John Groenendyke had originally come from Cayuga County, New York, and moved to Vigo County in 1818, then in 1819 moved to the area that later became Vermillion County. The name is based on the Iroquois term Gwa-u-geh, meaning "the place of taking out" (in terms of a portage). Local legend attributes the name to the sound made by the horn of a Ford Model T. The town was incorporated around 1891.
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Start Cayuga’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cayuga’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Cayuga, decade by decade
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Nothing in Cayuga is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Cayuga has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Eugene Covered Bridge in Eugene, 1.6 miles away.
Cayuga and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.