A post office was established at Maples in 1854, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1921.[3] The community was named for Lewis S. Maples, a lumber baron.[4]
^"Allen County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved August 27, 2014.
^Griswold, Bert Joseph; Taylor, Mrs. Samuel R. (1917). The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, Indiana: A Review of Two Centuries of Occupation of the Region about the Head of the Maumee River. Robert O. Law Company. p. 644.
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