It turns out that it was named for a man named Joseph Hitler, who owned
the land that the town was built on in the late 19th Century. A member of
the Leica Users Group sent me a link to an an article about it that I
hadn¹t found when I tried to find out about the street¹s name.
http://m.kpcnews.com/columnists/steve_garbacz/kpcnews/article_1ac8f77d-9e9a
-567a-9c92-2cec70f81419.html
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On 2/17/16, 9:47 PM, "olympus on behalf of Paul Braun"
<olympus-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf
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>Probably named after town planner, Vern Hitler.
>
>:-p
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>> On Feb 17, 2016, at 20:19, Christopher Crawford
>><chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Wandering around the small town of Kimmell, Indiana, I was surprised to
>> discover that the town has a road called Hitler Street. Yes, HITLER
>>Street!
>> I think that may be the most shocking thing that I have ever seen in my
>> travels, and I have seen some pretty strange things.
>>
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