Lynnville, IN

Lynnville began as a surveyed town in Hart Township: John Lynn platted it in 1839 and opened the first store. The old settlement now sits in a Warrick County landscape where roads, schools, and former coal country meet. State Road 68 is the town’s north-south link, and the relationship with nearby Boonville shapes access to county services and the public library system.

The strongest local landmark is Lynnville Park, created in 1964 after Peabody Coal Company deeded 1,100 acres of strip-mined land and lakes to the town. The park’s main lake is stocked with bass, crappie, bluegill, and catfish; a boat ramp, fishing pier, dock, and campground turn a mining-era landscape into a municipal recreation area. Lynnville’s Boonville-Warrick County library branch and its elementary, middle, and high schools keep education and routine services close to town. The story is compact but specific: a nineteenth-century store town, a twentieth-century coal legacy, and a present-day lake park now share the same map.