Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Wabash, IN

Wabash is a city in Noble Township on the Wabash River and the county seat of Wabash County in north-central Indiana.

The name Wabash comes from a Miami-Illinois term meaning 'water over white stones,' a reference to the clarity of the river over its limestone bed in nearby Huntington County.

The area opened to settlement after the 1826 Treaty of Paradise Spring with the Miami and Potawatomi, the first settlers arrived in 1829, and the town was platted in the spring of 1834 by Col. Hugh Hanna and Col. David Burr and incorporated the same year.

The 2020 census counted 10,440 people in Wabash, living in 4,512 households.

Wabash claims to be the first electrically lighted city in the world: on March 31, 1880, four 3,000-candlepower Brush carbon-arc lamps mounted on the courthouse dome were switched on before a crowd of more than 10,000 people — although, strictly, it was the courthouse grounds that were illuminated — and one of the original Brush lamps is still displayed in the courthouse.

A fire in 1870 destroyed the Wabash County Courthouse and most of downtown, but the city rebuilt around a new courthouse.

Wabash first prospered on the Wabash and Erie Canal and later on the Big Four Railway, which supplanted the canal.

The Honeywell company traces its beginnings to Wabash, where it was founded in the 1880s and where co-founder Mark C. Honeywell lived; the National Register-listed Honeywell Center performing arts complex downtown is named for him and includes the 1,500-seat Ford Theater.

The Eagles Theatre in Wabash opened on March 30, 1906 as a vaudeville house, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and retains one of the largest movie screens remaining in Indiana along with two balconies and a ballroom.

Wabash is home to the Ford Meter Box Company, a prominent manufacturer for the waterworks industry.