 Blackford County's Converse should not be confused with the town of Converse, which is located in Grant County.The railroad line that ran through Converse was named Union and Logansport Railroad Company by the time it entered Blackford County, and it was the county’s first railroad.This line was proposed in 1862, and completed to Hartford City in 1867 — running through the Blackford County communities of Dunkirk, Converse, Millgrove, and Hartford City.