A few homes and businesses remain to this day. Thurman was a settlement located on the Detroit branch of the old Wabash Railroad. The population at that time was listed as 130. Gar Creek enterprises at that time included a shingle manufacturer, two carpenters, a Justice of the Peace, a saw mill, a general store with a railway agent and a Postmaster (Jesse Rothgeb), a blacksmith, a hoop manufacturer, and United Brethren and Lutheran churches. In 1883, lumber and grain were the primary exports of the station. A small community of 500 people eventually settled around the station.

Gar Creek was once a shipping point on the Wabash and Toledo Railroad. A newer water tower labeled 'Woodlan' near the Woodlan Schools may result in the community being known as 'Woodlan' in the coming years. At one time it consisted of a small diner for truckers, a gas station (later a bicycle shop), a tile mill, and a few homes. įive Points is a settlement located at the junction of Old US Highway 24, Webster Road, and Woodburn Road, along the old Wabash-Erie Canal route. The original Milan Center structure subsequently was lost to fire, and the relocated Brueggemann's closed Apafter 100 years of business.

īrueggemann's Do-It-Best Center subsequently left to build a new store several miles removed to take advantage of traffic on State Highway 37 (at Ricker Road). Additional enterprises have come and gone through the years. Milan Center lies at the intersection of Milan Center Road and Doty Road, and at an earlier time consisted of Brueggemann's (previously Van Camp's, a combination lumberyard, gas station, hardware and grocery store), a small wood-frame church, Milan Center School, a feed mill, and four houses. The principal town in Milan Township is Milan Center, at 41☈'39'N 84★6'46'W. Towns and Villages A church in Milan Center. Milan township is generally demarcated by Schwartz Road to the west, Notestine Road to the north, Sampson Road to the east, and Gar Creek Road to the south. Many of the residents of Milan Township are Swiss Amish who mostly speak a Low Alemannic Alsatian dialect. The township is highly rural, with only 1,137 houses in the 2010 census. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,749. Milan Township is located in east central Allen County, with the Maumee River meandering across the township. Milan Township is one of twenty townships in Allen County, Indiana, United States.

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