Medaryville is a town in White Post Township, Pulaski County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

The railroad today comes into Medaryville from the south, but the tracks end just north of Pearl Street.

The northern edge of what was called the Grand Prairie lies just south of the town, and the huge swampy outwash plains of the Greater Kankakee River basin are to the north and west.

Just west of town once existed a vast "Impassable Swamp" which was known to the earliest European explorers of the continent.

Before the areas were drained, the temperate swamps supported a nearly unimaginable variety of flora and fauna.

Pioneer accounts relate an abundance of game of every type, and many local residents made their living by hunting and trapping in the early settlement days.

The "proprietors" of the new town were Josiah Walden and William Clark, who owned the land on the east and west sides of the railroad, respectively.

There is an exception for the lots that abut the railroad, because the right-of-way was 100 feet, which isn't an even multiple of a rod.

In 1857 Clark went to Iowa, selling what was left of his holdings to William Tolbert Elston, the town's first doctor.

Walden left for Kansas in 1864, selling his interest in the town to James C. Faris, a lawyer.

The town was most likely named after Samuel Medary, an Ohio newspaper editor and politician who moved west with the settlers and was the last governor of the Minnesota Territory before it gained statehood.

In the past, town held a festival known as the Potato Fest, in honor of this facet of its history.

This nature preserve is a stopover point for migrating Sandhill cranes, and attracts many visitors each fall.

Each October the Medaryville/White Post Twp Fire Department sponsors a bike ride, known as the Crane Cruise, that runs through the heart of the migration territory.