Editing Rising Sun, Indiana (section)

==History==
The town was registered in 1816 by John James, originally of [[Frederick County, Maryland]].<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana|location=Chicago|publisher=F. E. Weakley & Company|year=1885|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_b040AQAAMAAJ/page/n437 448]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_b040AQAAMAAJ|quote=In the year 1807 John James, from Frederick County, Md., settled at [[Lawrenceburg, Indiana|Lawrenceburgh]], and two years later exchanged his lands located there, with Col. Chambers for the land on which Rising Sun now stands.}}</ref> At the time, it had a population of about 700. Many [[German American|German]] immigrants settled in Rising Sun.<ref name="History">{{cite web|title=History|publisher=City of Rising Sun, Indiana|year=2013|access-date=May 11, 2014|url=http://www.cityofrisingsun.com/History.aspx}}</ref> The Rising Sun post office has been in operation since 1844.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Ohio | title=Ohio County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=August 25, 2016}}</ref>

In the 1830s, Rising Sun was a seasonal stop for hundreds of [[flatboat]]s daily heading down the Ohio River.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RXQgqekmP2AC&q=rising+sun+indiana&pg=PA14 | title=Indiana | publisher=Globe Pequot | date=Mar 1, 2001 | access-date=16 October 2013 | author=Wissing, Douglas | pages=14| isbn=9781560449065 }}</ref>

The [[Clore Plow Works-J.W. Whitlock and Company]] and [[Rising Sun Historic District]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

[[Joseph Barricklow]] (1867&ndash;1924), Illinois lawyer and state legislator, was born in Rising Sun.<ref>'Official Directory of the Fortieth Illinois General Assembly 1897,' J.L. Pickering, Springfield, Illinois: 1897, Biographical Sketch of Joseph P. Barricklow, pg. 54-55</ref>