City of Pawnee Indiana 1817 Magnet

Pawnee, Indiana is a fictional town located in south central Indiana, 90 miles from Indianapolis and 35 miles past Bloomington. In 1812, Reverend Luther Howell of Terre Haute traveled over 100 miles by pushcart and planted a flag in the ground. That soil, formerly inhabited by the Wamapoke Indian tribe, was to become Pawnee. Rev. Howell was soon dispatched by the tribe, but not before consecrating the town's first church, Pawnee Lutheran, which still stands today, though it was deconsecrated in 1974 and is currently a wholesale linen outlet. Legend has it, Reverend Howell chose "Pawnee" as the name for the town accidentally. As a functional illiterate, he tried to write "Paradise" on the city charter, and his scrawls were misinterpreted.