Montgomery, Indiana
town in Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana, United States
Montgomery is a town in Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana, United States. The population was 792 at the 2020 census.
History
Montgomery was laid out in 1865 by Valentine B. Montgomery. Montgomery was a station and shipping point on the Ohio and Mississippi Railway.
St Peter's church is the second oldest Catholic parishes in Indiana. The first church was a log-cabin built in 1818, followed by frame church in 1823. In 1841, bishop Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière gave the parish and the land to French priest and missionary Edward Sorin, CSC who came with seven Brothers of the Congregation of Holy Cross. At the time the property consisted in 160-acre tract of land, the frame church with two additional small rooms, and two log cabins. One cabin was used as a school conducted by Charles Rother who took the name Brother Joseph. In the early months of 1842, Sorin started to conceive the idea of founding a college, although one was already present in Vincennes (the College of St.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Montgomery, Indiana” is town in Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Montgomery, Indiana and town, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “town in Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q567907. Authority coordinates are 38.663, -87.047. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1865, 1818 and 1823.
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This entry incorporates text from “Montgomery, Indiana” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.