Editing Knightsville, Indiana (section)

==History==
Knightsville sprang up in 1867 around an iron furnace which had been built the year before.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_1VLWAAAAMAAJ | title=Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana: Historical and Biographical | publisher=F.A. Battey & Company | author=Blanchard, Charles | year=1884 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_1VLWAAAAMAAJ/page/n229 244]}}</ref> It was named for Dr. A. W. Knight, the original owner of the town site.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake|url-access=registration|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake/page/186 186]|quote=...by Dr. A.W. Knight of nearby Brazil on land owned by him...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]] | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n176 177]}}</ref> The Knightsville post office was established in 1870.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Clay&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Clay County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=August 30, 2014}}</ref>