42°58′42″N 79°52′23″W / 42.978426°N 79.873182°W Indiana is a ghost town in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada. It was located on the north-east bank of the Grand River, north of Cayuga. The Indiana site was known as 'Grand Rapids' before the first white settlers arrived in the 1830's, a village of members of the Lower Cayuga nation of the Six Nations, who moved from the NY state area after the 1784 Haldimand Tract Proclamation granted Six Nations about 950,000 acres of land along the Grand River. Indiana flourished in the mid- 1800's as a mill town and base for the river transport trade. Until the 1860s it was the largest industrial town in Haldimand County,[1] but by 1905 it was largely abandoned. Part of the 1,200-acre (490-hectare) townsite is now included in the Ruthven Park National Historic Site of Canada.[2][3]
It is also connected to a smaller satellite ghost town known as Deans, which was founded in part to provide Indiana with a railway connection. The site was referred to as "Deans" as late as 1940–1951.[4]
- ^ Quirk 2010, p. i.
- ^ Ruthven Park National Historic Site of Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
- ^ Ruthven Park National Historic Site: A Unique Tourist Attraction.
- ^ Archives of Ontario: County of Haldimand Map No. 21a – The Southern Part of the Province of Ontario – (Detail) Haldimand Province of Ontario. Department of Lands & Forests. 1950. RG 1-707 Ministry of Natural Resources topographic maps. I0034483.