Editing Angola, Indiana (section)

==History==
Angola was founded in 1838 as the seat of Steuben County, the Angola post office has been in operation since the same year.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Steuben | title=Steuben County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=September 28, 2016}}</ref> Angola was officially incorporated as a town on October 1, 1866 and became a city in 1906.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-04-28 |title=Downtown Angola - Angola Main Street |url=https://downtownangola.org/downtown-angola/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |language=en-US}}</ref>

Some of the first settlers came from [[Angola, New York]], and they named their new home after their old one.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rose|first=Gregory Steven|title=The Southern-ness of Hoosierdom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q5HuAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Michigan State University|page=253|quote= names which had been transferred from other states were mapped, as were places originally settled by people from a certain state. For example, Angola, Indiana, was "named for Angola, New York, home of settlers"}}</ref>

The [[Angola Commercial Historic District]], [[Steuben County Courthouse]], and [[Steuben County Jail]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20110107.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2011-01-07|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/27/10 through 12/30/10|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>

Newell LeRoy Sims, a professional sociologist who lived for years in Angola published an in-depth study of the town in 1912 as his PhD dissertation at Columbia University in New York. He used the name "Aton" for the village. ''A Hoosier village: a sociological study with special reference to social causation'' (1912) is available online.<ref>See [https://archive.org/details/hoosiervillageso00sims/page/n5/mode/2up ''A Hoosier Village''] Aton was in fact Angola, as reported in the ''Indiana quarterly magazine of history'' June, 1912, v. 8, p. 99.</ref>