| Mitchell
was built as a railroad town in the mid-19th century. At
this location in Lawrence County, the Chicago,
Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad, better known by
the shorter name of "the Monon", was built as
a north-south line from New Albany to Chicago, passing
through the area which became Mitchell in 1853. In 1857,
the east-west Ohio and Mississippi Railway (later part
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) was completed, as
part of a link between Cincinnati and St. Louis. |
