American Legion Post 297: standing at 486 East Michigan Street

ACTIVE, NOVEMBER 2026 · the Legion's own directory

The town's veterans' post stands on the main street: the American Legion's own post directory carries Post 297 at 486 East Michigan Street, New Carlisle, active as the directory stands in November 2026. The post is carried here as a civic institution — its hall is one of the town's standing meeting rooms, on the same street as the museum and the parade route — while its wars, its honor rolls and its memorial course belong to the Wars leg, and the marker stock (the Civil War Memorial, the World War II Honor Roll) stands in Arts & Culture at pointer size. The post's namesake stands proved in the Wars leg: the state's 1921 Gold Star Honor Roll states that the post was named in honor of Private James W. Swanson, the New Carlisle-born soldier who died at Coblenz in March 1919 and lies in the town's ground — and the post's federal record dates its exemption to March 1946 (assembly conform, DF-NC-26). The founding charter date alone remains open under GAP-NC5-CIV-1, settler the post's own records and the Department of Indiana's post histories. The VFW test prints next, at its result: no Veterans of Foreign Wars post seated in New Carlisle stands in the national and departmental directories reached — the searches return the town's Legion post and, at the four-doors trap's usual address, a VFW corporation of New Carlisle, Ohio, which is the namesake's and not this town's. The negative is printed at directory strength; its settler, if a post ever chartered and folded here, is the VFW Department of Indiana's roster of defunct posts.

Sources:

1. The American Legion, post directory (legion.org), read November 2026 — Post 297, 486 East Michigan Street, New Carlisle, active.
2. VFW national and departmental post rosters as reached, November 2026 — no New Carlisle, Indiana post; the New Carlisle, Ohio VFW corporation record (Charity Navigator) printed as the namesake trap it is.