Editing New Castle, Indiana (section)

==History==
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New Castle was [[plat]]ted in 1823, and named after [[New Castle, Kentucky]].<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/949 949]–950}}</ref> A post office was established at New Castle in 1823.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Henry&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Henry County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=2 February 2015}}</ref>
The [[Maxwell automobile]] factory, later owned and operated by Chrysler Motor Corp. was, at the time of construction (1907), the largest automotive manufacturing plant in the nation.<ref>Herbert L. Heller, 'Historic Henry County, vol. 3: 1800-early 1940s (New Castle, Ind.: Courier-Times, 1982), p. 528.</ref>

The [[Chrysler Enclosure]], [[Gen. William Grose House]], [[Henry County Courthouse (Indiana)|Henry County Courthouse]], and [[New Castle Commercial Historic District]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>