Editing Alexandria, Indiana (section)

==History==
[[File:Indiana's First Interurban Railway historical marker.jpg|thumb|Historical marker about Indiana's First Interurban Railway line.]]
Alexandria was [[plat]]ted in 1836, when it was certain that the [[Indiana Central Canal]] would be extended to that point.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7lA0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA119 | title=History of Madison County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, Volume 1 | publisher=Lewis Publishing Company | author=Forkner, John La Rue | year=1914 | pages=119}}</ref> It was incorporated as a town in 1898.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UBgVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA840 | title=Historical Sketches and Reminiscences of Madison County, Indiana | publisher=Wilson, Humprheys & Co. |author1=Forkner, John La Rue |author2=Dyson, Byron H. | year=1897 | pages=840}}</ref>

In 1898, Indiana's first [[Interurban]] railway line began operating between Alexandria and [[Anderson, Indiana|Anderson]].<ref>{{Cite sign
|title       = Indiana's First Interurban
|year        = 1966
|date        = 
|type        = 
|publisher   = Indiana Sesquicentennial Commission
|location    =  SE corner, Harrison & Church Streets, Alexandria
|author      = 
|url         = https://www.in.gov/history/state-historical-markers/find-a-marker/indianas-first-interurban/
|access-date = August 13, 2023
|medium      = Indiana Historical Marker
}}</ref>