[3] It is located near Interstate 70 approximately halfway between Terre Haute and Indianapolis in the west-central portion of the state.

Greencastle, Indiana, officially became a city after an election held on July 8, 1861.

[5] The first mayor of Greencastle was E. R. Kercheval, a member of the Freemason Temple Lodge #47.

[3] John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster and bank-robber in the Depression-era United States.

He was charged, but never convicted, with the murder of an East Chicago police officer whom he shot in the knee while fleeing the scene of his heist.

[6] In Our Past, Their Present: Historical Essays on Putnam County Indiana, John J. Baughman writes, "On Monday, October 23, 1933, four armed men entered the Central National Bank of Greencastle and escaped with $74,782.09.

[12] Humid continental climate is a climatic region typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters.

35.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

34.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The year 2002 marked the beginning of the Primary School with the addition of 5th grade.

In 1867, Laura Beswick, Mary Simmons, Alice Allen, and Bettie Locke Hamilton (then Bettie Locke), the chief founder of Kappa Alpha Theta, America's first college women's fraternity, became the university's first four female students.

Students hail from 42 states and 32 countries with a 20.4%[citation needed] multicultural enrollment.

DePauw's liberal arts education gives students a chance to gain general knowledge outside of their direct area of study.

42 under “America’s Best Colleges.”[27] Ivy Tech Community College (also Ivy Tech) is the nation's largest statewide community college with single accreditation.

A 33,300 square foot, $8.6 million Ivy Tech campus was completed in 2009 in Greencastle.

The Ivy Tech branch in Greencastle is also assisted financially by The Putnam County Community Foundation.

[29] Services include books, books on CD, ebooks, movies, music, newspapers, magazines, computer and Internet access, Wi-fi, inter-library loan, programming for all ages, author series, book discussion groups and multiple public meeting rooms.

The PCPL Local History and Genealogy Department is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing public access to Putnam County's historical records.

The library became a museum in 1986, and was renamed to honor the financial contributions of James W. Emison, a longtime member of DePauw University's board of trustees and benefactor of the university, and other Emison family members.