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===The Great Fire=== In 1921 there was a great fire that destroyed a store and warehouse, the post office, and several houses on the east side of town;<ref>{{cite book |last=Griffin |first=Frederick P. |title=History of Corydon & Harrison County INDIANA: A Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings. Vol. 2. |publisher=Willow Creek Printing Inc. |date=1993 |pages=101 |chapter= History Of Crandall, Building of Railroad, Fire is Reviewed}}</ref> eleven buildings were destroyed in all.<ref>{{cite news |first= Erin |last= Weilbaker |title= Crandall: Just a Quiet Little Country Town |page= 2B |date= July 27, 1983 }}</ref> The town sprang back from the destruction, and by 1936 Al Gerdon of the [[Corydon Democrat]] writes of the businessmen of Crandall. He tells of an insurance salesman, the Crandall branch of the Harrison County Bank, the feed store, two general stores, the main office for the Harrison County Farm Bureau Corporation, Incorporated, and the well-known fox chasing conventions consisted of about seventy-five dogs that would chase the foxes on the outskirts of town.<ref>{{cite book |last=Griffin |first=Frederick P. |title=History of Corydon & Harrison County INDIANA: A Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings. Vol. 2. |publisher=Willow Creek Printing Inc. |date=1993 |pages=30 |chapter= Chasing Around Crandall}}</ref>
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