How Did Whitestown get its name?

[ShadowCaver]

When moved to NE 'bama upon Sand Mtn, the 'local' movers where hired from the Chattanooga area [~45 minutes away]. When the sun was heading down, they started moving a tad faster - we had been talking quite abit about the area before, and then when they mentioned that they had to be off this ridge before the sun went down, I was upset, disappointed, shocked, and frustrated.

In my ignorance, I thought that kind of BS was a thing of the past. Told them right then straight up that as long as they are on my land, and with my guns unpacked, they were welcome and safe on my ~5 acres, and that if wanted I would escort them anywhere they wanted. Even during daylight, did not see hardly any blacks upon that ridge, nor in that area. A young lady who dated a person that was of mixed blood had some crap burned in her folks' front yard about 6 miles away.

[freeyourmind]

Whitestown Indiana was named in honor of Albert S. White. Ironically, He was an abolitionist and he founded a school with John Purdue in Stockwell, Indiana.

Albert S. White wrote the Emancipation Compensation Act for this country at the request of Abraham Lincoln and the 30-page document (which I have found) was the forerunner to the Emancipation Proclamation. White was appointed a Federal Judge by Lincoln and started the Wabash RR and the Lafayette-Indianapolis Railway and was very responsible for helping to build bridges into Lafayette and the end of the Erie Canal. He helped many people.
Read what the famous author Carl Sandburg says about White and his wife (my Great-Great Grandmother), Harriott Randolph White on whose father's property at Tuckahoe in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson learned to read and write in the one room schoolhouse which is still standing today and which I have been in with my Mother just a few years ago. Harriott White was, according to Carl Sandburg, one of Mary Todd Lincoln's four best friends and helped her in her depression after the assassination.

I grew up in the inner city of Indianapolis, and recently moved to a subdivision of Whitestown Indiana, which has been around for 5 or so years. I cannot speak for the locals who have lived in Whitestown their entire lives, but I can tell you that my wife is Colombian, our neighbors are Asian, and we definitely have black neighbors who live in our subdivision. Most of my immediate neighbors are college educated young families who seem very open minded and are friendly in my experience. Whitestown must not be too backwards...Amazon.com and MEDCO have announced recently that they will invest millions opening new facilities in Whitestown, and Duke Realty has already spent millions of dollars building condos, housing and shopping centers, and office buildings to serve a growing Whitestown community that is rapidly transforming into a progressive suburb of Indy. Anyone can post anything they want based purely on speculation, hearsay, and blog-speak. For what it's worth, my advice would be to check it out for yourself. You might be surprised at what Whitestown has to offer.

Whitestown Indiana was named in honor of Albert S. White. Ironically, He was an abolitionist and he founded a school with John Purdue in Stockwell, Indiana.

Albert S. White wrote the Emancipation Compensation Act for this country at the request of Abraham Lincoln and the 30-page document (which I have found) was the forerunner to the Emancipation Proclamation. White was appointed a Federal Judge by Lincoln and started the Wabash RR and the Lafayette-Indianapolis Railway and was very responsible for helping to build bridges into Lafayette and the end of the Erie Canal. He helped many people.
Read what the famous author Carl Sandburg says about White and his wife (my Great-Great Grandmother), Harriott Randolph White on whose father's property at Tuckahoe in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson learned to read and write in the one room schoolhouse which is still standing today and which I have been in with my Mother just a few years ago. Harriott White was, according to Carl Sandburg, one of Mary Todd Lincoln's four best friends and helped her in her depression after the assassination.