title: Anson, Indiana
text: # Anson, Indiana
  
  Anson was a community, now extinct, in Richland Township, Miami County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
  
  ## History
  
  Anson was laid out in 1853. When the Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago Railroad was built in Miami County, it was not extended to Anson, and the village became a ghost town.
  
  