Angola, Indiana

Angola is a city in Pleasant Township, Steuben County, Indiana, United States.

[4] Angola was founded by Thomas Gale and Cornelius Gilmore on June 28, 1838, and is home to Trine University.

[6] The Angola Commercial Historic District, Steuben County Courthouse, and Steuben County Jail are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[7][8] Newell LeRoy Sims, a professional sociologist who lived for years in Angola published an in-depth study of the town in 1912 as his PhD dissertation at Columbia University in New York.

A Hoosier village: a sociological study with special reference to social causation (1912) is available online.

[10] The National Weather Service reports that Angola's average January temperatures are a maximum of 30.5 °F (−0.8 °C) and a minimum of 16.0 °F (−8.9 °C).

33.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

34.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The newspapers consolidated their printing plants in 1925 and their ownership in the 1960s (in the Willis family), eventually merging into one publication in 1980.

Two years later they were sold to Home News Enterprises, which expanded the paper to a twice-weekly format in 1989, and then in August 2001 to KPC Media Group of Kendallville, Indiana, which converted The Herald Republican to a daily in September 2001.

[17] Angola is served by Barons Bus Lines Schedule 0025: Cleveland, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois; and Schedule 0026: Chicago, Illinois to Cleveland, Ohio.

The Metropolitan School District of Steuben County, which operates the following schools in Angola:[18] Trine University Angola has a lending library: the Carnegie Public Library of Steuben Co.[19]

Just north of Angola, on State Road 127 , the rural past has made way for big-box stores .
Map of Indiana highlighting Steuben County