Former Church Bell - Pleasant View Church - rural Boone County, IN
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This bell is located in front of the Pleasant View Church, in rural Boone County, Indiana.
Waymark Code: WMMP4Q
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 10/17/2014
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This bell is mounted, close to the ground, in a metal frame, beneath an illuminated sign for the Pleasant View Church, in rural Boone County. There is text on both the front and back of the yoke from which the bell is hung. The text on the front reads 'THE C.S. BELL CO' and 'HILLSBORO, O.' The text on the back reads 'STEEL ALLOY 40 CHURCH BELL'. From doing some online research I discovered that the company who made this bell was made by Charles Singleton Bell who started the company in Hillsboro, Ohio in 1882. There is no year on this bell but it was made between 1894 and the 1970s (from reading this website (
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According to a stone marker, at the front of the church, the Pleasant View Church, was first organized on November 6, 1836.
Pleasant View Church
5295 W. State Road 32,
Dover, IN
765-482-0407
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The Pleasant View Church is located on the south side of IN 32, about 2 miles east of Dover, in Jefferson Township, in Boone County, Indiana.
Jefferson Township is one of twelve townships in Boone County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,464. Dover is the name for the unincorporated town, at the intersection of IN 32 and IN 75, about 7 miles west of Lebanon, Indiana. (
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Boone County was formed April 1, 1830, and named for frontiersman Daniel Boone. The county commissioners met near the center of the county on May 1, 1831 to identify a county seat, which by law had to be within 2 miles (3.2 km) of the county's center; the city of Lebanon was selected to serve this purpose. Boone County had a population of 56,640, at the 2010 Census. (
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