Editing Ambia, Indiana (section)

==History==
[[File:Ambia downtown Indiana historic.jpg|left|thumb|Ambia, Store Front with the Post Office, Old Harness Shop, Barber Shop, and Millinery Shop, circa 1920]]
Ambia was laid out by Ezekiel M. Talbot and his wife Marietta on February 22, 1875, and named for their daughter Ambia Talbot.  (The couple had two years earlier planned the nearby town of [[Talbot, Indiana|Talbot]].)  Its first building was a house erected by James C. Pugh which was soon joined by a grain elevator, general store and blacksmith.  A drug store, hardware store, hotel, physician and a variety of other establishments followed.<ref name="cwbjn">{{cite book
  | last = Mossman
  | first = Ed
  | title = Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana: Historical and Biographical
  | publisher = F. A. Battey & Co.
  | location = Chicago
  | year = 1883
  | chapter = History of Benton County: Past Events -- Present Condition}}</ref>

Ambia was a stop on the [[Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington Railroad]] (later the [[Lake Erie and Western Railroad|Lake Erie and Western]]) which ran between [[Lafayette, Indiana|Lafayette]] and [[Hoopeston, Illinois|Hoopeston]].  The Wabash Railway Company, which built a stretch of the LM&B through Illinois, originally wanted to construct a railway switch at a site known as Weaver City, a small town just west of Ambia in [[Vermilion County, Illinois]]; the owner of the property, however, refused to grant land for it.  In response, the railway officials sent a force of men without notice to move the station house from Weaver City half a mile east across the state border, which they did on the Sunday morning of March 10, 1873.  The town's businesses and residents followed and Weaver City faded from existence while Ambia sprang up near the station's new site.<ref name="hbc">{{cite book
 | last = Birch
 | first = Jesse Setlington
 | title = History of Benton County and Historic Oxford
 | orig-year = 1928
 | year = 1942
 | publisher = Craw & Craw
 | location = Oxford, Indiana
 | pages = 200–201
 | chapter = Towns of the County
 }}</ref>