Editing Lizton, Indiana (section)

==History==
Lizton was originally called New Elizabeth, and under the latter name was laid out in 1837 by Jesse Veiley, and named for his wife, Elizabeth.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Gw3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA98 | title=History of Hendricks County, Indiana: Her People, Industries and Institutions | publisher=B.F. Bowen | author=Hadley, John Vestal | year=1914 | pages=98}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=History of Hendricks County, Indiana: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUbWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA718|year=1885|publisher=Inter-State Publishing Company|page=718}}</ref>

The post office was established as New Elizabeth in 1854, and was renamed Lizton in 1873.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Hendricks&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Hendricks County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=September 20, 2014}}</ref> According to one source, the name may have been changed by the railroad.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SXB5AAAAMAAJ|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=200|quote=According to the WPA files, the railroad shortened the name to Lizton.}}</ref>