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Mauzy, Indiana

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Appears to have been a rail point with no evidence that it was a settlement. The county history reveals plenty of people with this name but no town discussion. Mangoe (talk) 21:53, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 22:46, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It was much more commonly known under the name "Griffin Station"; people definitely lived here. Whether that constitutes a "settlement" vs a "rail point where people lived", I'm not sure how we draw the distinction. Based on the Needham source, this article calls it a "town" [1]. I found an early report that at minimum fifteen families lived there in the 1880s [2]. Some earlier reports of the area listed several "accoucheurs" (an older word for midwife, it seems) [3]. A county history of an adjacent county refers to it as a "trading point" [4]. There are a number of news bits about people trying to rent/sell their property at Griffin Station; one had a blacksmith shop on the property, apparently.

I found this interesting bit of trivia about a woman who died there from her clothes catching on fire while making apple-butter [5].

A reasonable alternative to deletion would be to merge to Union Township, Rush County, Indiana by creating a new subheading for other "settlements" (indeed a rail point can be a settlement, if only comprising very few people). Katzrockso (talk) 05:24, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]