About DePauw University

DePauw University is a private university in Greencastle, Indiana. It has an enrollment of 1,972 students. The school has a Methodist extraction and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a supporter of both the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the North Coast Athletic Conference. The Society of Professional Journalists was founded at DePauw.

Greencastle is a city in Greencastle Township, Putnam County, Indiana, United States, and the county seat of Putnam County. It was founded in 1821 by Ephraim Dukes upon a land grant. He named the pact for his hometown of Greencastle, Pennsylvania. Greencastle was a village or town operating under authority of the Putnam County commissioners until March 9, 1849, when it became a town by special case of the local legislature. Greencastle, Indiana, officially became a city after an election held on July 8, 1861. The first mayor of Greencastle was E. R. Kercheval, a member (during his lifetime) of the Freemason Temple Lodge #47. The city became the county chair of Putnam County. The population was 10,326 at the 2010 census. It is located close Interstate 70 nearly halfway along with Terre Haute and Indianapolis in the west-central ration of the state. Greencastle is well known as monster the location of DePauw University.