Samuel & Mary Braxton Lindley Cabin - Glenwood
Glenwood is one of the only houses yet remaining from the pioneer days of Washington County. The original farmstead consisted of 240 acres
Constructed between 1808-11, Quaker Fort in the War of 1812….one of the first established mills in the county, using a horse-drawn affair……also likely involved in the UGRR. Samuel was left in charge of the Royse’s Lick settlement, when most of the other men were away in the Indiana Militia, he was appointed the first head of the county’s education board, and he served in the state legislature in 1819 at Corydon. Cabin passed next to William Lindley, then William Braxton Lindley, whose second wife was the artist Viola Wolfe Lindley.
Three years after Indiana become a state, fifty-seven distinguished men from the county (mostly of Quaker heritage) assembled in the old Washington County Courthouse. The men signed their names and formed a compact under the name of the "Peace Society of Washington County". Samuel was a signer of the constitution and also a trustee of the new organization.
Samuel Lindley was a devout Quaker and donated the land on which the Blue River Friends Orthodox church now stands.
The first grist mill in the township was known as the Samuel Lindley Horse Mill and was built in 1811, near where the Friends Church now stands. The mill was operated by horse power and when the wheat was ground it was bolted by sifting into a trough made of ash.
Listing Details
Year Established
1808-1811
Element
Private Residence
Status
Standing