# Moscow, Indiana

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|official_name          = Moscow, Indiana
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|subdivision_name1      = [Indiana](/source/Indiana)
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|subdivision_name2      = [Rush](/source/Rush_County%2C_Indiana)
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|subdivision_name3      = [Orange](/source/Orange_Township%2C_Rush_County%2C_Indiana)
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'''Moscow''' is an [unincorporated community](/source/unincorporated_area) in [Orange Township](/source/Orange_Township%2C_Rush_County%2C_Indiana), [Rush County](/source/Rush_County%2C_Indiana), in the [U.S. state](/source/U.S._state) of [Indiana](/source/Indiana).<ref name=gnis/>

==History==
Moscow was laid out in 1832.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Rush County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7tE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR669|year=1888|publisher=Eastern Indiana Publishing Company|page=669}}</ref> The community's name most likely was a transfer from [Moscow](/source/Moscow), [Russia](/source/Russia).<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SXB5AAAAMAAJ|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=228|quote=...probably named for the Russian city.}}</ref> A post office was established at Moscow in 1827, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Rush&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Rush County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref>

The town was struck on June 3, 2008, by an [EF3 tornado](/source/June_2008_tornado_outbreak_sequence) which destroyed its landmark 19th-century [Moscow Covered Bridge](/source/Moscow_Covered_Bridge) over the Big Flatrock river.<ref name="ct">{{cite web
|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-moscow-indiana-tornado-080604-ht,0,2476808.story|title=Moscow, Indiana tornado|accessdate=2008-06-07|author=Tribune wire reports|date=2008-06-04|publisher=Chicago Tribune}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120426054844/http://www.moscowbridge.com/ Moscow, Indiana Covered Bridge website]

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