Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Boxley, IN

Boxley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Adams Township, Hamilton County, Indiana.

Boxley was laid out in 1836 by Addison and Thomas P. Boxley, the two oldest sons of pioneer settler George Boxley, on the old Lafayette Trace, which remained a significant road for decades.

The first store in Adams Township, and the first post office in the township, were both established in Boxley, and its post office remained in operation from 1837 until 1907.

Boxley's namesake, George Boxley, was the first settler in Adams Township, arriving about 1828 as a fugitive from Virginia, where he had been accused of helping enslaved people escape and of fomenting a slave rebellion in Spotsylvania County.

George Boxley was a former slaveholder who had freed his own slaves, and he was a well-read man who built a small log school on his land and taught the settlers' children from the books in his own library; he is credited with establishing the first school in the township.

George Boxley's log cabin near Sheridan still stands and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and local folklore holds that runaway slaves were hidden in an excavation beneath the cabin along the Underground Railroad.

The U.S. Census Bureau delineated Boxley as a census-designated place in the 2022 American Community Survey, so it has no decennial census population.