Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shady Lane, Indiana


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 04:21, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Shady Lane, Indiana

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According to Baker, this was... a shady lane. Supposedly they used excessively green sycamore logs to make a stretch of corduroy road, and the ends sprouted and produced a line of sycamores on either side of the road. YMMV, as they say, but at any rate he says nothing about "tree-lined streets" or about streets at all. And he certainly doesn't identify it as a settlement in any way. The maps are of no particular help since I couldn't find one that had the name on it until it was back-added from GNIS, so it's hard to say where exactly this was supposed to have been. The one dominant feature on all maps and aerials I saw was a substantial factory complex south of the area; it's now a bulldozed ruin, so I have no idea what it was. Searching hits lots of other Shady Lanes but although there's a geological reference to it, there's no such road name in the vicinity that I can find. So I don't think this is a real place. Mangoe (talk) 02:32, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. Skynxnex (talk) 04:48, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete No information found, other than the cited source, which is completely misrepresented by saying this is a community. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 14:11, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
 * General note: I've noticed a lot of these settlements I created ages ago coming up for deletion. I believe at the time I was just creating articles for red links in the county-level "Municipalities and communities" templates. I have no opinion on whether they are notable or not (or whether they get deleted or not); I assume you all are already removing the communities from the templates when these items are deleted. Thanks! Sweet kate (talk) 17:22, 29 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete The tree story is plausible, I've seen fence lines that grew a tree from the posts. Presumably for the same reason. And while Shady lane locale may be notable its not a community of any kind as is made clear in "From Needmore to Prosperity : Hoosier place names in folklore and history" page 298-299 James.folsom (talk) 21:48, 2 June 2024 (UTC)


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