Editing Thorntown, Indiana (section)

==History==
The first permanent settlement at Thorntown was made in 1827 when a man named George Harness established a trading post in the area. Thorntown was officially founded by Cornelius Westfall, who platted the town on April 10, 1830.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Thorntown Sesquicentennial |year=1980 |pages=20}}</ref> A post office was established at Thorntown the same year.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Boone&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Boone County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=August 26, 2014}}</ref> Thorntown is the English translation for the name of a former Native American village located there.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dunn|first=Jacob Piatt|title=True Indian Stories: With Glossary of Indiana Indian Names|url=https://archive.org/details/trueindianstori01dunngoog|year=1908|publisher=Sentinel|page=[https://archive.org/details/trueindianstori01dunngoog/page/n324 306]}}</ref>

The [[Thorntown Public Library]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1986.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>