Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Pennville, IN

Pennville is a town in Penn Township, Jay County, in east-central Indiana, located along the Salamonie River.

Pennville's story began in the spring of 1834, when Samuel Grisell and Moses Hamilton left Columbiana County, Ohio, to find government land, and Grisell received his 160-acre land patent at Fort Wayne on February 10, 1835.

Grisell platted the town in August 1836 and named it New Lisbon after Lisbon, Ohio, but the name was changed to Camden around 1837 because Indiana already had another New Lisbon.

Pennville kept the name Camden through the oil and gas boom that began in the 1880s, and residents did not incorporate the town under its present name, Pennville, until 1905.

A post office has served Pennville since 1848.

The Cincinnati, Bluffton and Chicago Railroad ran through Pennville from 1903 until 1917, linking the town to the region's rail network.

Pennville had its own high school for most of a century — the second Pennville High School, built in 1911 on Jones Hill, operated until 1975, when Jay County's community schools were consolidated.

Pennville's population was 621 at the 2020 census, and at the 2010 census its 701 people lived in 292 households.

Pennville is one of the smaller incorporated towns in Jay County, whose county seat is Portland.