Editing Geneva, Indiana (section)

==History==
Geneva had its start in 1871 when the rival towns of Alexander and Buffalo merged.<ref>{{cite book|title=Exploring Indiana Highways: Trip Trivia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j7zds6xx7S0C&pg=PA48|year=2007|publisher=Exploring America's Highway|isbn=978-0-9744358-3-1|page=48}}</ref> It was named after [[Geneva]], in Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5378 | title=Profile for Geneva, IN | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | access-date=August 26, 2014}}</ref> The first post office in Geneva was established in 1872.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Adams |title=Adams County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=August 26, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140827165043/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Adams |archive-date=August 27, 2014 }}</ref> Geneva incorporated as a town in early 1874.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History {{!}} Town of Geneva Indiana |url=https://townofgeneva.org/history |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=townofgeneva.org |language=en}}</ref>

The Town of Geneva benefited greatly from the [[Indiana gas boom|Indiana Gas Boom]] of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Oil was found near Geneva and production began in 1892. This brought many new settlers to the area and skyrocketed local land prices. At its height in November 1895, one company, the Buckeye Pipe Line Company, had 160 oil wells in the Geneva field producing 24,362 barrels a month. Production fell off after 1907.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Snow |first=J. F. |title=Snow's History of Adams County |publisher=B. F. Bowen & Co. |year=1907 |location=Indianapolis |pages=159–160}}</ref> Charles D. Porter and his wife, [[Gene Stratton-Porter]], who lived in Geneva from 1886-1913, owned roughly 30 oil wells in the area,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kilbane |first=Kevin |date=March 8, 2014 |title=Researcher digs into Stratton-Porter's past |work=The Goshen News |url=https://www.goshennews.com/news/researcher-digs-into-stratton-porters-past/article_5fabbe29-1069-5972-aaf0-6f766b8f3876.html}}</ref> and used the proceeds to build [[Gene Stratton Porter Cabin (Geneva, Indiana)|Limberlost Cabin]] in 1895.

[[File:Downtown Geneva, Indiana.jpg|thumb|Businesses in Geneva's downtown historic district]]