Sponsler, Indiana

Sponsler is an unincorporated community in Greene County, Indiana, in the United States.[1]

History

Sponsler was named in honor of William Sponsler, the original owner of the town site.[2]

gollark: There are a bunch of different vaccines in development.
gollark: * turned on
gollark: Presumably the idea is that the contact tracing apps would keep it turn on, and people would have to suffer the slightly higher battery drain.
gollark: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/challenge-proximity-apps-covid-19-contact-tracing
gollark: The rough idea of the decent-for-privacy idea is apparently to have each phone have a unique ID (or one which changes periodically or something, presumably it would store all its past ones), and devices which are near each other (determined via Bluetooth signal strength apparently) for some amount of time exchange identifiers, and transmit in some way the IDs of devices of people who get inected.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sponsler, Indiana
  2. Baker, Ronald L. (October 1995). From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...named for William Sponsler, who owned land here when a railroad stop...



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