Editing Ligonier, Indiana (section)

==History==
Ligonier was [[plat]]ted in 1835.<ref>{{cite book|last=Goodspeed|first=Weston Arthur|title=History of Whitley County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3syAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA145|year=1882|publisher=ill., ports.|page=145}}</ref> The city was named after [[Ligonier, Pennsylvania|the Pennsylvanian borough of the same name]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Gannett|first=Henry|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ|year=1905|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n185 186]}}</ref> A post office has been in operation at Ligonier since 1848.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Noble&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Noble County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=May 5, 2017}}</ref>

Ligonier was home to [[A. J. Inks]]' Crystal Theatre from 1906 to 1970.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/12011 | title=Crystal Theater in Ligonier, IN - Cinema Treasures }}</ref>

In 1940, a [[List of United States post office murals#Indiana|post office mural]] was completed by [[Fay E. Davis]] as a work commissioned through the federal [[Section of Painting and Sculpture]], later called the [[Section of Fine Arts]], of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department]]. The mural, ''Cutting Timber'', depicts lumberjacks felling trees and removing them by oxcart.<ref>{{cite book|last=Carlisle|first=John C.|title=A Simple and Vital Design: The Story of the Indiana Post Office Murals|year=1995|publisher=Indiana Historical Society|location=Indianapolis, Indiana|isbn=978-0-87195-110-6|page=28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=New WPA Mural Installed in New Ligonier Postoffice|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9373272/angola_herald/|access-date=7 March 2017|newspaper=[[The Angola Herald]]|date=September 20, 1940|location=Angola, Indiana|page=3|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}} {{open access}}</ref>

The [[Ahavas Shalom Reform Temple]], [[Ligonier Historic District (Ligonier, Indiana)|Ligonier Historic District]], and [[Jacob Straus House]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>