Editing Fountain City, Indiana (section)

==History==
Fountain City was originally called New Garden, and under the latter name was laid out in 1818.<ref name="History">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historywaynecou00youngoog | title=History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time | publisher=R. Clarke & Company | author=Young, Andrew White | year=1872 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historywaynecou00youngoog/page/n358 298]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.waynet.org/community/fountain-city/ | title=Fountain City, Indiana | publisher=WayNet | access-date=June 2, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Sketches">{{cite book | title=History of Wayne County, Indiana: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Volume 2 | publisher=Inter-State Publishing Company | year=1884}}</ref> New Garden became Newport in 1834, which was renamed Fountain City in 1878,<ref name="Sketches" /> named for its natural springs.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5355 | title=Profile for Fountain City, IN | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | access-date=July 7, 2016}}</ref> It was incorporated as a town in 1844.<ref name="History" />

The Fountain City post office has been in operation since 1878.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Wayne |title=Wayne County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=July 7, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050914182125/http://postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Wayne |archive-date=September 14, 2005 }}</ref>

===Historic site===
[[File:Levi Coffin House, front and southern side.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Levi Coffin House]], Fountain City, Indiana]]
The [[Levi Coffin House]], home of Quaker abolitionist [[Levi Coffin]] and his wife Catherine, was an important stop on the [[Underground Railroad]]. Coffin was sometimes known as the "president" of the Underground Railroad. It is now operated as an Indiana State Historic Site.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.waynet.org/levicoffin/default.htm | title=Levi Coffin House | publisher=WayNet | access-date=June 2, 2014}}</ref>