unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Paoli Township Paoli may refer to:
People
*Antonio Paoli, a tenor singer from Puerto Rico
*Amalia Paoli, a soprano singer from Puerto Rico
*Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and leader
Places
;In the United States
*Paoli, Colorado, town
*Paoli, Georgia, unincorpo ...
U.S. state
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of
Indiana
Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...
.
History
A post office was established at Syria in 1880, and remained in operation until 1904. The community probably took its name from
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...