Atwood, Indiana

Originally named "Mount Ruska," Atwood was laid out as a village by Harvey Hunt and Agnes Teegarden on September 29, 1857. A post office was established in 1864. By a petition of the citizens in 1865, the town's name was officially changed to Atwood. The petition cited the fact that the location had come to be known and designated on railroad maps as "Atwood Station." Despite its small size, for years the community had a respectable business base, supporting grocery stores, hardwares, restaurants, factories, mills, and other small business operations. Concerned citizens established a volunteer fire department in 1946, and it remains in operation today. Though the community never incorporated to become a municipality, it has a community building, owned and operated by a nonprofit board of private citizens, and streetlights throughout the town, which have been maintained and funded by the Atwood Lions Club since 1960. ==Geography==

Atwood is situated along the border between Prairie and Harrison Townships in Kosciusko County, with the northern portion of the town lying in Prairie and the southern portion in Harrison. The community is southeast of Hoffman Lake, northeast of Crystal Lake, and north of the nearby Tippecanoe River. ==Schools==

The Atwood High School was constructed in 1909. The school mascot was a Greyhound. The Atwood boys' basketball team won a regional championship in the1921-1922 season. A gymnasium was added to the school building in 1949. Prior to that, the basketball team played its home games in a separate building across town or in the gym of neighboring Etna Green. The high school shut down in 1962, but the building continued to house the Atwood Elementary School until its closure in 2005. Today the building serves as a church. Those who had attended the Atwood school now attend Warsaw Community High School. ==Notable people==

• Harold Achor; Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court • Emery Andrew Rovenstine; renowned anesthesiologist ==References==