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In "History of Dearborn County, Indiana; Her People, Industries and Institutions; Archibald Shaw, Editor; Published By: B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc.; Indianapolis, Indiana 1915" there are several references to the village of Cambridge, including the following:
Experience of a Pinoeer Girl, page 210:
Jacob Blasdel, who settled on Tanners creek, at the locality where he afterwards laid off the town of Cambridge, now a switch on the Big Four railway called Pella...
An Early Advertisement, page 212:
The town of Cambridge, which was laid out by Jacob Blasdel, at one time had a little prosperity. There was the Blasdel grist mill, a store, hotel, blacksmith shop and a number of houses there. In the Western Statesman of March 17, 1830. Jacob Blasdel had his grist mill at Cambridge advertised for sale. About the same time an announcement was made in the same paper as follows: "Public Entertainment. The subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public in general that he has opened a house of public entertainment in Cambridge, Dearborn county, Indiana. Six and one half miles from Lawrenceburg, five from Elizabethtown, five from Heustis's, Manchester township. On the nearest route from Cincinnati to Versailles, Napoleon, etc. His House and Stable are well situated for the accommodation of travelers, who may see proper to give him a call. His Bar is supplied with good liquors and his Stable with Forage. He flatters himself from the experience he has had that he will give general satisfaction, and solicits a share of public patronage. W. F. RIPLEY."
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