Historic Evansville

Rowleytown

AKA: Rowleystown

Rowleytown was just northeast of Evansville, most of what is northeastern addn/enl platted 1832 judge nathan rowley

Rowleytown rowleytown - rowley st? jimtown? streets in area include st john (), rowley () william, olive, market, centre () john, canal, ... ann , walnut, smith st,garvin layed out in cardinal directions separate from evansville (like lamasco) listed in 1866-7 cd as rowleystown 1868-9 1870-1 1872-3 city directories as rowleytown looks like distinct area in 1880 map streets listed in 1866-7

The streets were renamed during the numbering in 1873 to align with those from the city to the south. The following table summarized the name changes.

OLD STREET NAME	NEW STREET NAME
Hunnel St	Elsas Ave
Smith St / St John St	Heidelbach Ave
Market St	Lafayette St
Centre St	Governor St*
Rowley St	Elliott St
Boundary St	Garvin St
Canal St	Division St
John St	[same]
William St	E Sycamore St
Olive St	[same]
Orange St	Walnut St

* renamed later 1882

rowleytown meat market 301 william cor lafayette (1886) Rowley St was named after it or center nathan rowley? justice of peace c1860

View the map of the Rowleytown district

Research Notes

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Rowleytown streets in 1852 map

Rowleytown streets in index 1858, 1860-1

Rowleytown streets in index 1866-7 as Rowleystown 1865,1863

Rowleytown streets in index listed as Rowleytown 1868-9 (still a couple references to rowleystown)

Rowln xstreets appear in 1876 Atlas

Rowleytown xlisted as a place in the 1876 city directory

Rowleytown xstreets in 1880 Atlas

Rowleytown xnot in the 1880 Panoramic Map

Rowleytown xout of range in the 1884 Sanborn

Rowleytown xstreets first listed in street index in 1888 city directory

Rowleytown xin distant background of 1888 Perspective Map

Rowleytown xpart of city in 1890 Street Map