Editing Lewisville, Indiana (section)

==History==
Lewisville was [[plat]]ted in 1829, and named for Lewis C. Freeman one of its founders and afterward first postmaster.<ref name="Hazzard1906">{{cite book|last=Hazzard|first=George|title=Hazzard's History of Henry County, Indiana, 1822-1906|url=https://archive.org/details/hazzardshistoryo02hazz|year=1906|publisher=G. Hazzard, author and publisher|pages=[https://archive.org/details/hazzardshistoryo02hazz/page/937 937]–938}}</ref> A post office has been in operation in Lewisville since 1831.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Henry | title=Henry County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=February 2, 2015}}</ref> In 1833 (when there was considerable inconsistency in the spelling of Indiana place names), it was described as follows: 'Louisville, a village in Henry county, on the National Road [U.S. 40], on the east bank of Flatrock, about ten miles south of Newcastle. It contains a small population, and one store; but has a prospect of rapid increase.' <ref>'Louisville.' In John Scott, ''The Indiana Gazetteer, or Topographical Dictionary; containing a description of the several counties, towns, villages, settlements, roads, lakes, rivers, creeks, and springs, in the State of Indiana,'' 2nd ed., carefully revised, corrected, and enlarged (Indianapolis: Douglass and Maguire, 1833), pp. 109-110.</ref> By 1909, it had a population of 503, more than 2 dozen businesses, two doctors, a newspaper, and a railway station.<ref>''Complete Directory of Henry County, Indiana, comprising A List of all Residents of the Cities and Towns, together with an accurate rural list, giving number of acres owned, title, section numbers and rural routes'' (Portland, Indiana: J. M. Minch, 1909), pp. 11 and 195.</ref>

[[Guyer Opera House]] was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1979.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>