unincorporated community
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U.S. state
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of
Indiana
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. Old Suman Road is in the area.
History
An older variant name of the village was Sumanville. It was originally laid out in 1873 by Isaac C. B. Suman (1831-1911), who had served during the Civil War as Colonel and commander of the
9th Indiana Infantry Regiment
The 9th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a volunteer infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was organized on April 22, 1861, for three-months' service in Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis. After being reorg ...
. A post office was established and operated until 1894. A justice of the peace sat at Sumanville. A nation-wide medical register and directory from 1886 reported the town's population as two-hundred.
Suman was near the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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line that ran through the area (which is now part of
CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles () of track, it is the lead ...
Garrett Subdivision). A derailment took place outside of Suman station in 1923.
See also
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Ville
''Ville'' is a French word meaning "city" or "town", but its meaning in the Middle Ages was "farm" (from Gallo-Romance VILLA < Latin '' villa rustica'') ...