Elizabeth City, Indiana

[2] It had a general store run by brothers Elnathan and Thomas B. Wilkinson, who later moved to Knightstown.

[2] The village had a Methodist Evangelical church, organized in 1840 by Samuel Carr and run from his own house.

[3] It later moved to an old log school house, until a proper church building (costing US$1,200 (equivalent to $34,335 in 2023)) was erected in 1876.

[4] It had a local doctor named J. P. Julian from 1882, a Henry County native who had moved his medical practice there from Middletown, having graduated in medicine in March 1881 from the Physio-Medical College of Indiana and prior to that having been a schoolteacher for around five years.

[2] The village failed because of the construction of the railway that ran through Kennard, Shirley, and Wilkinson just a few miles away, and because of rural free delivery provided from Shirley and Wilkinson obviating the need for the Maple Valley post office.