It was oriented in an east-west direction along the south side of the Lafayette-Noblesville state road which Higbee designated as Main Street (present day Second Street). Two and a half blocks were divided into twenty lots. He had acquired the land in parcels and filed his town plat in April, 1866. Higbee, born in Ohio, and brought to Adams Township as a child, did indeed lay out a town he called Millwood on land adjacent to the district school (built in 1851). No documentation supports the popular contention that Egbert Higbee started the town in 1860. The origin of Sheridan, which was first called Millwood, are vague due partly to the loss of all the town’s records in 1913 when a disastrous fire destroyed the Town Hall and many other buildings. The Sheridan Downtown Commercial Historic District encompasses approximately four blocks along Main Street from the former Monon railroad right-of-way north to Veterans’ Park and Pioneer Hill, the site of the George Boxley cabin, listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Considerable recent development has greatly increased the population of this historic town. Sheridan, once the second largest town in Hamilton County, lies on the south edge of land originally owned by George Boxley.
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