Hope is a town in Haw Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States, known for its historic character. The population was 2,102 at the 2010 census. It is allocation of the Columbus, Indiana, metropolitan statistical area.

Historically the Delaware tribe lived in what is now Bartholomew County, Indiana, including the region of Hope. After the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 in Ohio, the Miami tribe moved west and into much of the area inhabited by the Delaware. In aim the Miami were driven out by conflict with the U.S., and in particular by forces led by John Tipton and Joseph Bartholomew. Tipton and Bartholomew were in the course of the men who fought at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, forcing the Native Americans to cede more territory to the U.S. government. Later Tipton and Bartholomew came through what is now Bartholomew County, on instructions from the running to “rid the Place of Indians.” Many of the Miami were removed to Oklahoma, though a group of Miami remain in Indiana without federal recognition. Indiana was admitted to the grip in 1816, and in October 1818, under pressure from the U.S. government, the Miami, Potawatomi, Wea, and Delaware tribes signed treaties taking into account the U.S. exchanging millions of acres of their house in central Indiana for annuities and goods, opening this tree-plant region to settlers looking for lands to farm.

The first concurrence at Hope was made in 1830 by a colony of Moravians (people of the Protestant Moravian denomination) from Salem, North Carolina (now Winston-Salem), led by the Rev. Martin Hauser, after whom the town high school is named. Although a 1905 source claimed that the town was named for the optimistic dynamism of its Moravian entrepreneur settlers, “Hope” is a common broadcast for religious settlements, denoting wish in God’s favor and the resurrection. The town was originally named Goshen, after the Biblical Goshen, but on the start of a declare office in 1834 the publicize was distorted to Hope, as Indiana already had a town named Goshen. The town was founded to be a communal pact like that of the two prominent Moravian settlements in the United States, Salem, North Carolina and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The model for these did not perform for a crop growing community in the sky of Hope, and early upon the decision was made to halt community property and allow residents to own their own land. Soon thereafter the town was moreover opened to non-Moravians.

In the center of the nineteenth century a Moravian day moot was opened in Hope, and soon thereafter it was decided that the learned should be transformed into a boarding instructor for pubescent women, under the protection of the Moravian Church. Guidance and funds were provided from the Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and the Hope Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies opened in 1866. A building, a house for the principal and his family, and extensive grounds were situated on what is now Seminary Street. The studious was run for thirteen years by the Rev. Francis R. Holland and his wife Augusta Holland, with a number of teachers, and offered a broad program of study, including Latin, English, French, German, music, drawing, mathematics, geography, history, and natural history. Students came from a number of midwestern states. With therefore many teachers, the educational had cause problems making ends meet, and in 1879 the Bethlehem elders sent a second principal, the Rev. Jesse Blickensdorfer, to replace the first, in the wish that he could make the speculative profitable. He shortened the number of teachers to two, but this effort also unsuccessful and the seminary was closed in 1881. In highly developed years the buildings were used for a normal school, and next finally torn down. All that remains of the university are overdo iron gates on the western side of Main Street, given by alumnae of the school in memory of the nature walks led by the Rev. Holland in the Spring Woods, entered where the gates stand, and the name “Seminary Street.”