Plymouth, Indiana City of Plymouth Plymouth is a town/city in Marshall County, Indiana, United States.

The town/city is the governmental center of county of Marshall County. Plymouth was the site of the first retail supply of defunct U.S.

5 Plymouth High School Plymouth, Indiana is positioned at 41 20 38 N 86 18 45 W (41.343894, -86.312544), along the Yellow River. According to the 2010 census, Plymouth has a total region of 7.57 square miles (19.61 km2), of which 7.53 square miles (19.50 km2) (or 99.47%) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (or 0.53%) is water. There were 3,940 homeholds of which 34.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 39.7% were married couples living together, 14.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 6.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 39.1% were non-families.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 12.4% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 18.0% from 45 to 64, and 14.8% who were 65 years of age or older.

Marshall County was formed in 1836, amid the early years of settlement and before the forced removal of the Potawatomi citizens in 1838.

Chief Justice John Marshall, who died in 1835. Marshall County is notable as the starting point in 1838 of the Potawatomi Trail of Death, which was the forced removal by United States forces of Chief Menominee and 859 Potawatomi Indians from Indiana to Indian Territory, at the site of present-day Osawatomie, Kansas, a distance of 660 miles (1,060 km).

As a result of this heritage, some place names in Marshall County are titled after places in New England, such as Plymouth, which is titled after Plymouth, Massachusetts, the site where the Mayflower landed in 1620. When these pioneer arrived, there was nothing but a dense virgin forest and wild marshland, which would need to be cleared and drained before it could be farmed.

Van - Valkenburgh, editor of the Plymouth Weekly Democrat, who criticized what he viewed as Lincoln's abuses of power.

Much of Plymouth's history was documented in two primary newspapers amid the 19th century.

The Marshall County Republican (also titled Plymouth Republican and Plymouth Tribune) directed from 1856 to 1922. Its chief rival the Marshall County Democrat (also titled Plymouth Democrat) appeared from 1855 to 1932 (and as a weekly only version until January 1, 1941). During the 20th century, the Plymouth Daily Pilot acquired the Republican in 1922, and the Democrat became the Plymouth Daily News in 1932.

The News and Pilot consolidated to turn into the Plymouth Pilot-News in 1947.

As part of Plymouth's sesquicentennial celebration in 1966, organizers created the first Marshall County Blueberry Festival, to take place over Labor Day weekend.

The East Laporte Street Footbridge, Heminger Travel Lodge, Marshall County Courthouse, Plymouth Downtown Historic District, Plymouth Northside Historic District, Plymouth Southside Historic District, and Plymouth Fire Station are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As the center of commerce for Marshall County, Plymouth provides a large percentage of jobs in the manufacturing, retail, and service sectors.

Manufacturing command posts are positioned in Plymouth: American Containers, Inc., Arrow Services, Inc., Auto Park, U.S.

Plymouth High School 2008 - Plymouth High School is awarded the Bronze Award from U.S.

News & World Report. Also, PHS was titled one of Indiana's "Best Buy Schools" by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. The Plymouth School Corporation has around 85 extra curricular activities, including a robotics club, Lego League, Academic clubs such as Spell Bowl and Quiz Bowl, Language Clubs, and a range of other Instrumental, Sport, and Speech programs.

The Plymouth High School Instrumental Music Department has annually earned the ISSMA "All-Music Award" and the marching band was titled an ISSMA State Finalist in 2010 and 2013.

In 2016 the Pride of Plymouth participated in their first season of WGI Winds, in the Scholastic World Winds class, and ranked second in the Winds Championship Finals.

The Plymouth High School Speech Team has been prosperous on both the state and nationwide levels.

The team was the overall Indiana High School Forensic Association's state champion in 1997, as well as five consecutive years from 2000 to 2004, and also in 2009.

On the nationwide level, Plymouth students regularly compete at the National Forensic League's nationwide tournament.

Plymouth students have earned nationwide championships in Original Oratory in 2002, Duo Interpretation in 2004, and Prose Reading in 2005. In 2007, Head Coach David Mc - Kenzie was awarded the National Forensic League National Coach of the Year. In 1977, Plymouth High School won the State Football Championship.

In 1982, Scott Skiles led Plymouth High School to the boys basketball state championship, with a 75-74 double overtime victory over Gary Roosevelt High School.

On March 24, 2007, Plymouth won the Indiana Class AAA boys' basketball championship.

Head coach Jack Edison was titled National High School coach of the year.

On March 1, 2008, Plymouth won the Indiana Class AAA Girls' Basketball Championship.

Plymouth rates #4 on the Niche "Best Towns to Raise a Family in Indiana" list and #94 on the "Best Towns to Raise a Family in America" list. Plymouth was ranked #8 in the "Top 10 Safest Midsize Cities in Indiana" as stated to Value - Penguin. "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana.

A Twentieth Century History of Marshall County, Indiana, Volume 1 By Daniel Mc - Donald A Twentieth Century History of Marshall County, Indiana, Volume 1.

"Killing the Serpent Speedily" Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization Project blog A History of the Plymouth Republican Plymouth's Democrat journal from 1855-1870 digitized Marshall County Blueberry Festival History "National Register of Historic Places Listings".

"National Register of Historic Places Listings".

"Indiana's Best Buys: An In-Depth Look at Hoosier High Schools" https://indianachamber.com/media/pdf/Indianas - Best - Buys - 2008.pdf NFL National Tournament Results through 2010 (National Forensic League, accessed 2011-Jun-25 City of Plymouth, Indiana website Plymouth, Indiana Chamber of Commerce Plymouth School Corporation Digitized issues of the Plymouth Democrat from 1855-1870 Digitized issues of the Plymouth Pilot (1851), Plymouth Banner (1853-56), Marshall County Republican (1856-78), Plymouth Republican (1878-79), Plymouth Tribune (1903-11), and Plymouth Weekly Republican (1911-12) Municipalities and communities of Marshall County, Indiana, United States