The Ghost Town of Weisburg, Indiana

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The town of Weisburg, Indiana was laid out in 1858 and was named after Phillip Weis a local mill owner. At one time the town of Weisburg was a major center of activity in the northern section of Dearborn County. Once home to a hotel, train depot, a mill and grain business, a post office, two stores, a blacksmith shop and several saloons. Weisburg had a one room school house which burned in 1940. A set of railroad tracks runs directly through town and at one time there were two sets of tracks. In the early 1900s a spark from a steam locomotive ignited a fire in Wesiburg which consumed several buildings.
Weisburg is also known for its extremely productive fossil beds with information listed in school books used by universities around the country.
As rail transportation gave way to the automobile, Weisburg slowly turned into the small cluster of houses you now see as you drive through town.
GPS Location: 39°13'04.5"N 85°02'46.9"W

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5 окт 2024

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@carolynkahles7362 5 лет назад

My husband and I wanted to turn the old store into an antique shop, and home but parking caused an issue we didn't know how to fix. Glad someone is now living there!

@glenssmallenginecreations 2 года назад

Grew up just across the Ripley county line outside of Sunman,In riding my bike's down weisburg road during summer breaks eating black berries and sucking on honeysuckle along the ditch lines.some of my best childhood memories where riding my bike with a friend through the old town..yes it was old even in the 80s lol

@tresapaige5142 9 лет назад

Hi I now live in the old general store shown in this video and i love seeing the history of my new house and town thank you so much for showing me what it used to be.

@michellenine9486 6 лет назад

Paige Charles that's awesome I was thinking it would be great to live in the store lol I want to live in that precious little town

@carter_1 3 года назад

I have lived on Weisburg my entire life... your house was still a general store when I was a kid (in the early 80s). I didn't know there was such a big fire. Wow just wow. Someone sent this to me & Im shocked.

@dumbartonyankee 3 года назад

I remember going in the store when I was fossil hunting with my dad, sometime around 1980.

@tresapaige5142 3 года назад

@@dumbartonyankee that's so cool. There is so much history to be learned here and I absolutely love it!

@tresapaige5142 3 года назад

Fun fact... in our main room due to it having been a store there are 162 shelves lining the walls! I was counting as I was painting them a couple years ago and couldn't believe that there were really that many.

@zascokansasdude 6 лет назад

This is a great video. I'd never heard of this community...until now, but it looks to be a picturesque town. Thanks for posting.

@guyvanarsdall7686 Год назад

I believe that's the train from the Honda plant in Greensburg, headed for Cincinnati, at the end of the video.

@historyinyourownbackyard2363 Год назад

You're absolutely right!

@dumbartonyankee 3 года назад

I remember the store! My dad would take me fossil hunting there and I remember the store was old and kinda run down and had one of those old-fashioned pop machines where you opened the lid and moved the bottles out horizontally.

@karenmurphy6749 4 года назад

Thank you for this history lesson. I found it interesting!

@pamvernon4178 9 лет назад

Yes i live in Manchester indiana i live in a house that was a church in the 1800 - 1955 it became a dwelling. I would love the history on my house

@savannahsputnik1663 3 года назад

Go to your county auditors office, they can give you the chain of title going back to when it was built.

@W7DSY 7 лет назад

Brief, but well done. Thanks!

@danielmorse6597 6 лет назад

Thank you!

@tresapaige5142 5 лет назад

I live in the old general store. My grandmother bought it in 2015. We are trying to get a historic loan to fix it up but we are not sure how. If anyone can help us out it would be greatly appreciated.

@historyinyourownbackyard2363 5 лет назад

Have you contacted the Dearborn County Historical Society?

@ralphfoster6283 6 лет назад

I can say a lot of reasons these small towns die off is because kids that live there cannot wait to leave! Not much action going on in a small town unless you’re into cow tipping!

@hiperson7347 3 года назад

Thanks for the video. Please do one on Mechanicsburg in Decatur County. My grandfather went there for school. As schools consolidated, these little schools and towns disappeared. Thanks again!

@historyinyourownbackyard2363 3 года назад

We do plan to do a series of videos on Decatur County this year. I will talk to the sponsor for the project and see if they would like to have us do one on Mechanicsburg as well. Thanks!

@hiperson7347 3 года назад

I am from Greensburg and my great uncle had the general store and post office in Kingston. School is falling in and the store has been leveled but the church and cemetery is still there. Thanks for doing these videos.

@historyinyourownbackyard2363 3 года назад

Her's the video we did on the church in Kingston: historyinyourownbackyard.com/video/kingston-presbyterian-church-kingston-indiana/

@hiperson7347 3 года назад

Thank you for that video. I was married in that church in 2000 and went to services there with my grandparents in the 60s and 70s. Many Easter Egg Hunts on that yard! Thank you so much.

@charlesolinger8059 6 лет назад

Please do one on Story Ind

@wellblowmedown7645 Год назад

A couple enters Gastons Wood Finishing Supplies I worked at in the mid 80s. They have come to purchase supplies and gain knowledge of architectural wood restoration. They start talking about a grandiose idea of buying an small abandoned town in Southern Indiana. I'm young and nieve to the world yet. Under my breath say I got some swamp land in Florida for sale. After a fantastic "story" and a gracious sale of merchandise the couple heads out of the store. Waving good bye. Under my breath. "They really did buy and abandoned town and restoring it for a bed and breakfast community. Imagine that!" Now you know the beginning of the "Story". Goodwood Day

@twiztedmuzic765 3 года назад

Want to see a ghost town? Go to Gary

@wellblowmedown7645 Год назад

Waste of time.

@transmanicon 3 года назад

Excellent video. Truly enjoyed the sweet girl telling us all about it.. Thank you.

@wd9ufo 3 года назад

Nicely done

@epicbacontinychef 8 лет назад

I live in a 1905ish house on the tracks in Guilford that I can't find info on.

@ericzerkle5214 6 лет назад

Pleasant Lake is one ghost town near me.

@Parasite3v3 6 лет назад

Ghosts don't put out the trash... Do ghost towns even have trash pick up?... 😉

@ralphfoster6283 5 лет назад

Mrs. EVE King I think they do recycling too!

@nanspark1870 3 года назад

May I suggest deep river and ainsworth indiana

@timtravasos2742 6 лет назад

It's not a ghost town. Some people still live there. No explanation for why the town died out.

@johnfd0210 4 года назад

I question, "...is basically a ghost town." It either is, or it isn't. Since people live there, I would say it is not.

@pkereszt 5 лет назад

Tyner, Ind., (near Plymouth) looks about the same.

@brentbowling179 5 лет назад

Does anyone know the names of the students of Weisburg School or have a copy of the original photo? I'm pretty certain the boy in the first row third from the left is my grandpa. I asked him but he doesnt remember.

@carter_1 3 года назад

I have lived on Weisburg rd (nearly) my entire life. That's so neat if it's your grandpa! I have an uncle-in-law & all of siblings that went to that school too. I didn't know there was such a bad fire! I literally live adjacent to the 2and schoolhouse grounds of Weisburg our property was the well fetch'n place. The kids would walk here to get a drink. There's actually 6 wells on our property... guess they just kept digg'n!

@fely08 5 лет назад

Love the story but the audio is really bad

@kennethcurtis1856 Год назад

Audio was fine.

@herbb8412 Год назад

Didn’t look much like a ghost town

@historyinyourownbackyard2363 9 лет назад

Pam Vernon, give us a call at 812-623-5727 and we'll check out your house.

@cowboykody6775 Год назад

WHY THE SHOUTING????

@carunited5428 6 лет назад

it is very sad that smallest town little towns and other different towns on the 50 states that are big city and suburb cities and small town it will be the ghost town of today right now in 2018 and 19 and 20 20 but the problem is that I get more depression coming together as a family as the United as one in working together and all different language that are bringing them together as if working some new ideas to get past the gift I hope for this one account for the future because the big city is taking your people and to go over there to see big city and then your people will be disappearing on Sunday older small town and that will be like a ghost town seriously I am telling the truth for all of you that you don't like my message then don't say anything because this is going to be my own words