Editing Universal, Indiana (section)

==History==
Universal was founded in 1911 as a [[mining community]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake|url-access=registration|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake/page/331 331]|quote=...platted in March 1911...}}</ref> The town took its name from the nearby Universal Mines.<ref>{{cite book|author=Vermillion County Historical Society (Vermillion County, Ind.)|title=Vermillion County, Indiana History and Families|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2nMur_fmZ0C&pg=PA104|year=1990|publisher=Turner Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-938021-34-6|page=104}}</ref> A post office has been in operation at Universal since 1912.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Vermillion | title=Vermillion County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=October 1, 2015}}</ref>