Editing Carthage, Indiana (section)

==History==
Carthage was [[plat]]ted in 1834.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Rush County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7tE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR660|year=1888|publisher=Eastern Indiana Publishing Company|page=660}}</ref> The town was named after [[Carthage, North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SXB5AAAAMAAJ|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=88|quote=...named for Carthage, North Carolina, home of Quaker settlers.}}</ref> A post office has been in operation at Carthage since 1835.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Rush | title=Rush County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref>

The [[Henry Henley Public Library]] was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/16000908.htm | title=National Register of Historic Places Program | publisher=National Park Service | accessdate=15 March 2018}}</ref>