Dean McCoy is the preacher now and, in many ways, little has changed. Joshua Lucas was the first postmaster, appointed 2-13-1835 - it has one of the longest running Post Offices in the county.īrick Chapel, Ind – Benjamin Jones preached the first sermon at Brick Chapel in 1824 when it was little more than a few log cabins in the hills. Bainbridge had a newspaper (Bainbridge News) for some time, and a bank. Quite the religious diversity was alive and well in the early 1900s with Catholics, Presbyterian, Methodists, Christians living happily side by side. The town was named for Commodore Bainbridge of the US Navy. Adam Feather was the first blacksmith Joshua Lucas, the first tanner while John Cunningham was the first merchant. The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad kept the town alive for many years. Still a fairly active small town, they have a church, school, Legion, and volunteer fire department, among other things. It was named for William Bainbridge, an early U.S. Bainbridge - located in upper Monroe Township, one of the older communities in Putnam, it is located in Monroe Township and has about 750 people in 2012.
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