From the Antwerp Community Web Site:
"The first settlers came here in 1827. The town was surveyed and platted in 1841. Thereby, having an established town, the five men who made the plat set out to find a name that no other had in this country. With the aid of a postal guide, they discovered the name of Antwerp, Belgium. Knowing no other town of this name, they chose the name of Antwerp for the new village."
"The Wabash and Erie Canal was built, the village grew containing one store, one tavern, two physicians, a frame building, two log cabins for dwellings and most of the town was still covered in forest. Being about 20 miles from Fort Wayne and Fort Defiance, Antwerp was a growing community built around the canal and its commerce."
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