GREENCASTLE, a city of Indiana, U.S.A., on the Big Wal nut river, half way between Indianapolis and Terre Haute; the county seat of Putnam county. It is served by the Chicago, Indi anapolis and Louisville, the Big Four and the Pennsylvania rail ways. The population was 3,78o in 1920 (95% native white) and was 4,613 in 193o by Federal census. It is in a blue-grass region which makes heavy shipments of grain and live stock, and has lumber, zinc, and steel mills, stone quarries, and a large cement plant. Greencastle was settled about 182o and was chartered as a city in 1861. It is the seat of De Pauw university, a Methodist Episcopal institution, founded in 1837 as Indiana Asbury univer sity, and re-named in 1884 after Washington C. De Pauw (18 2 2 87) who made a liberal gift in 1883. The endowment is now over $5,000,000, and the enrolment about 2,000.