Editing Ossian, Indiana (section)

==History==
The Ossian post office has been in operation since 1850.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Wells&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Wells County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=July 6, 2016}}</ref> In 1843, [[Indiana State Road 1]] was made serviceable from [[Fort Wayne]] to [[Bluffton, Indiana|Bluffton]]. On January 25, 1850, the Fort Wayne and Bluffton Plank Road Company was then organized. The plank road was a toll road; any horse or [[horse-drawn vehicle]] had to pay a toll. The Fort Wayne, Cincinnati, & Louisville Railroad was built through Ossian in 1869, though it was not in complete operation until the following year. Today, the railroad is a significant north–south route for the [[Norfolk Southern Corporation]]. Ossian is still served by [[Indiana State Road 1]], while four miles north is [[Interstate 469]], the beltway around [[Fort Wayne]], and also just seven miles south of [[Fort Wayne International Airport]].

A 25-foot tall grain silo was painted to look like a [[Minions (Despicable Me)|minion]] from the [[Despicable Me]] movie on a nearby rural farm in 2016. A [[Vietnam War veteran]] mentioned the idea to his family and when he died at 73, family and friends painted it as a way to honor his memory. The grain silo soon became popular with people stopping by to view it from the road and was picked up by national news.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/10/the-heartbreaking-reason-a-giant-minion-stands-watch-over-rural-indiana/ |title=The heartbreaking reason a giant Minion stands watch in rural Indiana |date= June 10, 2016|work=[[Washington Post]] |first=Katie |last=Mettler |access-date=June 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/family-transforms-25-foot-silo-enormous-minion/story?id=39734327|title=Family Transforms 25-Foot Silo Into Enormous Minion|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date= June 10, 2016|access-date=June 12, 2016}}</ref>