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Lagro took its name from the Miami Indian Chief Le Gros. In 1828, a two room brick house was constructed for him at this site. He occupied the home until his death in 1831.
Miami Erie & Wabash Canal Country. Harry G. Black. 1991. page 49.

On the site of this old Indian town, Gen. Tipton had laid out a town which he called La Gro. But at what time this town was laid out I have never been able to ascertain. The original plat, however was recorded in Book A, page 55, of the records of Huntington county, but at what date the record fails to state, though the instrument recorded this bears the date May 18, 1835, and the one on the page following, June 10, 1835, so that we can approach the date of recording the Plat. The first lots sold in the town, numbered 174, 175 and 176, to Jacob Chappel, the deed for which was acknowledged September 18, 1834, so that we can conclude the town was laid out at least as early as September, 1834.

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