Freeland Park, Indiana

Freeland Park is an unincorporated town in Parish Grove Township, Benton County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Lafayette, [Indiana metropolitan area|Metropolitan Statistical Area].

History

Freeland Park was platted in 1898 and named for Antoine Freeland, the original owner of the town site. It stood at the terminus of the Freeland Park branch of the Chicago and Eastern [Illinois Railroad]. A fire in 1914 badly damaged the town's business district. In the 1920s Freeland Park had two grain elevators, a high school, a Presbyterian church and eight to ten businesses.
A post office was established at Freeland Park in 1901, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1957.

Freeland Park is located at, half a mile south of the intersection of Indiana State Roads 18 and 71 and a little under two miles east of the Illinois state line. A small waterway known as Salmon Ditch runs just north of town and flows west into Illinois where it becomes Cole Creek.