I'm working on creating and expanding articles for some of the smaller towns and villages in my area, particularly Warren County and Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Many of these hamlets had no entries in Wikipedia, presumably because most town articles seem to have their source in modern census data which recognizes only larger communities. These small towns are important to include for a variety of reasons -- for one, many were not always small towns. Some which today are only a scattering of houses were in the 19th century burgeoning, platted communities with many residents and much commerce, and which have significance for historians, genealogists, etc.
Researching and documenting ghost towns also interests me, and I'm working to expand or (in most cases) create articles for many of my area's lost and nearly forgotten communities.
Photography
As time permits, I'm taking photos of the towns in my area and adding them to WikiCommons. Everything I add goes into the public domain.
For your tireless work to add visual context to articles relating to Indiana, I here award you, Huwmanbeing, The Photographer's Barnstar. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 02:05, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
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