CRAWFORDSVILLE, a city of Indiana, U.S.A., 40m. N.W. of Indianapolis, on Sugar creek; the county seat of Montgomery county. It is served by the Monon Route, the Big Four, and the Pennsylvania railways. The population in 1920 was 10,139; it was 10,355. It is the trading and distributing centre for an important stock-raising region. More than ioo,000 pigs are shipped annually, and there are many breeders of pedigree cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry in the county. The city has substantial manu facturing industries, with an output in 1927 valued at Among the leading products are library tables, paving and building brick, wire and nails, wire specialties, sheet metal, door stops, water-tanks, poultry roosts and brooders, traffic signals, steel culverts and acetylene gas units. There are several printing plants, and large wholesale houses dealing in field and garden seeds. The municipality owns its electric power and light plant, which also serves four other towns and many farms. Montgom ery county was the first in the country to establish consolidated rural schools, and the first to have free delivery of mail in the rural districts. Wabash college for men, occupying 4oac. in the heart of the city, was founded here in 1832 by four pioneer Pres byterian missionaries. The enrolment is limited to about Soo. The first settler in Crawfordsville (182o) was William Miller. The town was laid out in 1822, and was chartered as a city in 1863. It was the home of Gen. Lew Wallace and of Maurice Thompson, and the birthplace of Meredith Nicholson and of Kenyon Nicholson.