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BOWEN'S
Indiana State Atlas
CONTAINING
A Separate Map of Each County, Showing Section, Township and Range Lines, Railroad and Interurban Lines, Churches and School Houses and Public Highways, With a Historical Sketch of Each County
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IMPROVED ROADS SHOWN IN COLORS
Also Containing Maps of Indiana, the United States and the World; Population of Counties, Townships, Incorporated Cities and Towns, With Estimated Population for 1920; Geographical and Other Tables; A History of the Growth of the State, and an Explanation of the System of Land Surveys
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1917 B. F. BOWEN & CO., Inc. INDIANAPOLIS
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FOREWORD
DE PADE LIBRARY
Good roads are a necessary concomitant of good civilization. It has been said that when a community pulls itself out of the mire of bad roads and builds highways that are usable in all kinds of weather, it is on the road to a better and happier existence. With good roads, isola- tion ceases, social life takes on a new aspect, educational and religious affairs are benefited, and, in short, every phase of the community's life is raised to a higher standard. It is a law of human nature that some good things have to be forced on people; not one man in a hundred would take out life insurance if it were not forced on him; many a farmer who has vigorously objected to paying for good roads has lived to see the benefit of the expenditure and enjoy the road to which he had so strenuously objected.
When Elwood Haynes drove his first little automobile down the streets of Kokomo, Indiana, in 1893, he did not realize that within the next few years this invention of his would revolutionize highway trans- 'portation. There is no gainsaying the fact that the automobile has been the direct cause of the building of more good roads in the United States during the past score of years than all other agencies combined. In Indiana alone the automobile tax for the first six months of 1916 amounted to $731,498.96, which amount, 'after the expense of its col- lection is deducted, is prorated among the counties. It is divided among the counties on the following basis: One-third is divided equally among the ninety-two counties of the state; one-third is divided among the counties in the proportion which the number of free gravel roads in the county bears to the whole number of miles of roads in the state; one- third on the basis of the amount received from the counties from such registration tax. The state does not get any of the money, all of it, after expenses of collection are met, being turned into the road fund of the various counties on the above basis. Another factor which has acted as a stimulus to the building of better roads is the introduction of rural free delivery, and it is because of the establishment of this service that the federal government has decided to assist the states in highway con- struction.
In 1916 Congress passed an act which provided for the extension of federal aid for the next five years to the states for the construction of rural post roads, and the act further provided that no state would be entitled to receive such aid until it had a state highway department which met with the approval of the federal highway bureau. This federal act appropriated $75,000,000 for highway construction: $5,000,000 to be available the first year, $10,000,000 the second year, $15,000,000 the third year. $20,000,000 the fourth year, and $25,000,000 the fifth year. Of this amount Indiana would be entitled to about $135,000 the first year (ending June 30, 1917), $270,000 the second year, and so on in propor- tion to the total amount appropriated each year.
The Legislature of 1917 passed an act in order to avail itself of this federal appropriation, and is now in a position to participate in this fund of $75,000,000. The act created a state highway commission with fall powers to regulate the expenditure of the fund to be received from the federal government.
Indiana is crossed by some of the most famous highways in the
country. The old National Road, built by the federal government, was completed in the thirties. It passes through Richmond, Cambridge City, Knightstown, Greenfield, Indianapolis, Greencastle and Terre Haute. The Lincoln Highway traverses the northern part of the state. It reaches Ft. Wayne from Van Wert, Ohio, and from Ft. Wayne passes through Goshen, Elkhart, South Bend, Laporte and Valparaiso to Geneva, Illinois. The Dixie Highway is planned to run from Michigan to Florida, a distance of 1,692 miles, and will pass through eight states, four state capitals, one hundred and ten county seats and one hundred and forty-four counties. It goes through the states of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. In Indiana it goes through St. Joseph, Marshall, Fulton, Cass, Carroll, Clinton, Boone. Marion, Johnson, Morgan, Monroe, Lawrence, Orange, Washington, Harrison and Floyd counties. Still another projected road is the Hoosier Dixie Highway, which has no official connection with the Dixie Highway. It branches off from the Lincoln Highway at Goshen, and passes south through Warsaw, Wabash, Marion, Anderson, Greenfield, Shelbyville, Columbus, Seymour and Scottsburg to Jeffersonville. An- other tentative road runs from Anderson to Cincinnati, via New Castle, Cambridge City, Connersville, Brookville and Harrison.
More people are using the highways today than ever before. It is a long step from the blazed trail and corduroy roads of our grandfathers to the macadamized, brick and cement roads of today. People have more leisure and more inclination to travel today than did the early settlers of the state. 'At the present time the farmer in his automobile can travel .farther in one day than he could travel in a week under condi- tions as they existed fifty years ago.
Every person who travels the highways of the state feels the need of an accurate guide to the roads. In no other way is it possible to tour the state without a useless expenditure of time and money. In fact, a good automobile guide is as essential as good gasoline. It is confidently believed that Bowen's Indiana State Atlas is the best publication of its kind which has ever been offered to the traveling public of Indiana. Each county map has been submitted to competent local authorities for correction and verification, special attention having been given to the delineation of the main traveled thoroughfares. State and county officials have extended the company every courtesy in the effort to make this work accurate in every detail.
The historical maps showing the state at various stages of its development have been prepared by Ernest V. Shockley, who has made a special study of Indiana history along the lines of its county develop- ment. The brief historical resume of each county has been prepared to give the main features of the county's development as it stands today. All the data given has been carefully compiled from the latest published state reports.
This atlas is the first serious attempt to prepare a publication of this magnitude since 1876. The company has been engaged in the preparation of the maps and the collection of the data for the past year. During this time its representatives have visited every county in the state in their efforts to make the publication as nearly accurate as possible.
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CONTENTS
Indiana in 1790
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Tippecanoe County Sketch
78
Dearborn County Map
149
Indiana in 1800
6 Tippecanoe County Map
79 Ohio County Sketch 150
Indianà in 1805
7 Warren County Sketch
80 Ohio County Map 151
Indiana in 1809 and 1816
8 Warren County Map
Indiana in 1818 and 1822
9 Clinton County Sketch
82 Ripley County Map
Indiana in 1830 and 1833
Early Transportation
Land Surveys
13 Tipton County Map
85
Jackson County Sketch 156
86 Jackson County Map 157
87 Lawrence County Sketch 158
Key Map, State of Indiana
15
Delaware County Sketch
88 Lawrence County Map 159
Steuben County Sketch
16
Delaware County Map
89 Martin County Sketch 160
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Martin County Map
161
Lagrange County Sketch
18 Randolph County Map
91
Daviess County Sketch
162
Lagrange County Map
19 Hamilton County Sketch
92 Daviess County Map
163
Elkhart County Sketch
20 Hamilton County Map
93 Knox County Sketch
164
Elkhart County Map
21 Boone County Sketch
94 Knox County Map
165
St. Joseph County Sketch 22 Boone County Map
St. Joseph County Map
23 Montgomery County Sketch
Laporte County Sketch
24 Montgomery County Map
97 Washington County Sketch 168
Laporte County Map
25 Fountain County Sketch
98
Washington County Map 169
170
Porter County Map
Vermilion County Sketch
100 Scott County Map
171
Lake County Sketch
28 Vermilion County Map
101
Jefferson County Sketch 172
Lake County Map
29 Parke County Sketch
102
Starke County Sketch
30 Parke County Map
103
Starke County Map
Putnam County Sketch 104
Switzerland County Map
175
Marshall County Sketch
Marshall County Map
33 . Hendricks County Sketch 106 Clark County Map
177
Kosciusko County Sketch
34
Hendricks County Map 107
Floyd County Sketch
178
Kosciusko County Map
35 Marion County Sketch 108
Floyd County Map
179
Noble County Map
Harrison County Map
181
Dekalb County Sketch
Marion County Map
109
Crawford County Sketch
182
Dekalb County Map
Hancock County Sketch 110 Crawford County Map
183
Allen County Sketch
Hancock County Map
111
Allen County Map
Whitley County Sketch
43
Wayne County Sketch
114
Fulton County Sketch
44
Wayne County Map
115
Fulton County Map
Gibson County Map
189
Pulaski County Sketch
46 Union County Map
117
Posey County Sketch 190
Pulaski County Map
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Fayette County Sketch
118 Posey County Map
191
Jasper County Sketch
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Jasper County Map
49
Rush County Sketch
120
Newton County Sketch
50 Rush County Map
121
Newton County Map
51 Shelby County Sketch
122
Warrick County Map
195
Renton County Sketch
52 Shelby County Map
123
Spencer County Sketch
196
Penton County Map
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Johnson County Sketch
124 125
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Johnson County Map
126
' Perry County Map 199
Drainage Areas of the State 200
Cass County Map
128
Miami County Sketch
58 Owen County Map 129
59 Clay County Sketch
130
Wabash County Sketch
Clay County Map
131
Wabash County Map
Huntington County Sketch
62 Vigo County Map
63 Sullivan County Sketch
134
Wells County Sketch
64 Sullivan County Map
135
Wells County Map
65 Greene County Sketch
136
Adams County Sketch
66 Greene County Map
137
Adams County Map
67 Monroe County Sketch
138
Jay County Sketch
68
Monroe County Map
139
Jay County Map
70 Brown County Map
141
Blackford County Map
71 Bartholomew County Sketch
142
Grant County Sketch
73 Decatur County Sketch
74 Decatur County Map
145
Howard County Map 75 Franklin County Sketch
146
Army of the United States
217
Carroll County Sketch
76 Franklin County Map
147
World, Map of
218-219
77 Dearborn County Sketch 148 Geographical Tables 220
Carroll County Map
Populations and Altitudes, United States 212-216
United States, Map
214-215
Armies of the World 217
Navies of the World 217
Militia of the United States 217
Governments of the World 217
Time, Difference of, Between Washing- ton and Places Named 217
Howard County Sketch
72 Bartholomew County Map 143 144
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Population of Incorporated Cities and Towns of Indiana 201
Population of Counties and Townships
of Indiana
202
132 133
Huntington County Map
Agricultural Statistics, United States __ 205 Population of Counties, Cities and Towns 206-209
Indiana, Map
210-211
hite County Map
55 Morgan County Sketch
Cess County Sketch
56 Morgan. County Map
57 Owen County Sketch
119
Vanderburg County Sketch 192
Vanderburg County Mo- 193
Warrick County Sketch 194
Spencer County Map 197
V hite County Sketch
45 Union County Sketch
116
Clark County Sketch
176
Noble County Sketch
Indianapolis, In-and-Out Map of, between 108 and 109
Harrison County Sketch 180
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40 41 Henry County Sketch 112
Dubois County Sketch 184
Dubois County Map 185
42 Henry County Map 113
Pike County Sketch 186
Pike County Map 187
Whitley County Map
31 32 Putnam County Map 105
Jefferson County Map 173
Switzerland County Sketch 174
Porter County Sketch
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Fountain County Map
99 Scott County Sketch
Steuben County Map
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Randolph County Sketch
81 Ripley County Sketch 152 153
Jennings County Sketch 10 Clinton County Map 83 154
11 Tipton County Sketch
84 Jennings County Map 155
Index to Key Map
14 Madison County Sketch
Instructions as to Use of Maps
14 Madison County Map
95 Orange County Sketch 166 167
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Orange County Map
Gibson County Sketch 188
Fayette County Map
Perry County Sketch 198
Miami County Map
60 61 - Vigo County Sketch
69 Brown. County Sketch 140
Blackford County Sketch
Grant County Map
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Indiana in 1790
The first county organized in the old Northwest Territory including any part of Indiana was Knox, which was organized by Winthrop Sargent, secretary of the Territory, on June 20, 1790. Prior to this three other counties had been organized: Washington, July 27, 1788; Hamilton, January 4, 1790; St. Clair, April 27, 1790. The first two counties were in the present state of Ohio, and the latter in Illinois. The limits of Knox county as first defined were as follows: "Beginning at the Standing Stone Forks of the Great Miami river and down the said river to the confluence with the Ohio river, thence with the Ohio river to the small stream or rivulet above Fort Massac, thence with the eastern boundary line of St. Clair county to the mouth of the Little Michili- macinack, thence up the Illinois river to the forks or confluence of the Theokiki and Chicago; thence by a line to be drawn north to the boun- dary line of the Territory of the United States, and so far easterly upon said boundary line as that a due south line may be drawn to the place of beginning."
"Standing Stone Forks" is located in Shelby county, Ohio, at the
present town of Loraine. Fort Massac was on the Ohio river, in what is. now Massac county, Illinois, about ten miles below the mouth of the Tennessee river. The easterly line of St. Clair county was drawn from Fort Massac to the mouth of the Little Michilimacinack river. The Theokiki is the present Kankakee and the Chicago is now known as the Des Plaines river. Their confluence is near the eastern line of Grundy county, Illinois. From this description it will be seen that the original Knox county included all of the present state of Indiana, about half of both Illinois and Michigan, and parts of Ohio and Wisconsin. On August 6, 1796, Knox county was decreased in size by the creation of Wayne county, which, as set off, included all of the present lower penin- sula of Michigan and portions of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, the part of Indiana falling within the county being north of a line drawn from Ft. Wayne to the southern extreme of Lake Michigan. No further changes in county boundaries affecting the territory of the present state of Indiana were made prior to May 7, 1800, when Indiana Territory was created.
Lake
Superior
St. Esprit 1665
St. Varie 1668
Lake Huron
Ft/Michlimackinac 1669
St. Xavier 1669
Lake
Michigan
Detroit 1701
Lake Erie Presque ole 1759
Ft. Miami 1679
.Ft. St. Louis 1682 Ft. Crevecoeur 1679
Fort Pitt 175
Quitenon 1732
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County
St. Clair
Randolph
Northwest Territory es it eppeared on June 20, 1790, when Knox county was organized.
Forte erected by the French before the opening of the French and Indian War
By Ernest V. Shockley
All this part of the present states of
a part of Indiana Territory, but it was
Washington
Hamilton T
Cahokia 1700 Ft. Chartres 1720 Kaskiakia 16955
LVincennes 1732
Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota was
.not within the limits of an organized county
By Ernest V. Shockley
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Indiana in 1800
Indiana Territory was created by the congressional act of May 7, 1800, and included all that part of the original Northwest Territory west of a line drawn from the mouth of the Kentucky river to Ft. Recovery and thence due north to the line dividing the United States and Canada. Ft. Recovery is in the southwestern part of Mercer county, Ohio, adjoin- ing Jay county, Indiana, about two miles east of the Indiana-Ohio state line. The western boundary of Dearborn and Ohio counties, Indiana, is a part of the line drawn from the mouth of the Kentucky river to Ft. Recovery, and consequently the only counties in Indiana left entirely in the Northwest Territory in 1800. The Indiana counties crossed by the line were Switzerland, Franklin, Union, Wayne, Randolph and part of Jay ..
Before Ohio was set off as a state in 1802, Clark county was organ- ized (February 3, 1801), no other counties being organized prior to the
act establishing the state of Ohio (April 30, 1802) with its present boundaries. The eastern boundary of Indiana Territory cut the Wayne county established in 1795 into two nearly equal parts. When Ohio was set off, Indiana Territory included all the remainder of the old North- west Territory, with only four counties organized: Knox and Clark in the present state of Indiana, and St. Clair and Randolph in the present state of Illinois. On January 24, 1803, the county of Wayne was organ- ized with boundaries as indicated on the map, and on the 7th of the following March Dearborn county was created. Dearborn county included all the territory between the Ohio state line and the Indian treaty line of 1795, that is, all of the present counties of Dearborn and Ohio and parts of Switzerland, Franklin, Union, Wayne, Randolph and Jay. No other counties were organized in Indiana Territory prior to the organization of the Territory of Michigan in 1805.
Lake Superior
Lake Huron
Laka
Michigan
Lake Erie
INDIANA
TERRITORY
NORTHWEST TERRITORY
Knox County
St. Clair
Randolph
INDIANA TERRITORY, 1800 By Ernest V. Shockley
Saint Clair
Knox
Clark
Randolph
Indiana Territory on February 3, 1801, the first rearrangement of the counties after the Territory was organized May 7, 1800.
By Ernest V. Shockley
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Indiana in 1805
The Territory of Michigan was set off from the Territory of Indi- ana with the congressional act of January 11, 1805, the act going into effect on the 30th of the following June. Michigan included the terri- tory north of a line drawn from the mouth of the Maumee river to the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, and east of a line drawn due north from the point of tangency of the east and west line with Lake Michigan to the boundary between the United States and Canada. A reference to the map shows the boundaries of the new Territory and like- wise the part of the old Northwest Territory still constituting the Terri- tory of Indiana. Before Illinois was set off in 1809, one more county, Harrison (October 11, 1808), was organized in Indiana. Harrison was formed out of parts of Clark and Knox counties, its limits being defined
as follows : "Beginning at a point on the Ohio River, where the meridian line from which the ranges take number, strikes the same, thence due north to the present Indian boundary line, thence with the said boundary line, to the intersection of the same by the line which divides the fourth and fifth ranges east, thence with the latter to the above mentioned boun- dary line between the Jeffersonville and Vincennes districts, and with the same to the intersection of the line dividing the fifth and sixth ranges (east), thence with the said range line until it strikes the Ohio river, and thence down the same, with the meanders thereof, to the place of begin- ning." The organization of Harrison county left Indiana Territory with four counties in 1809, when Illinois Territory was created.
Wayne
When Ohio was set off' on April 30, 1802, the
St. Clair
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territory now in the
state of Michigan was; added to Indiana territory and or- ganized as
Wayne County January 24, 18035
Knox
Clark
Randolph
Indiana Territory remained this size until Michigan was set off, June 30, 1805.
By Ernest V. Shockley
St. Clair
Knox
Clark
Dearborn
Randolph
Indiana on June 30, 1805, when Michigan was set off as a separate territory.
By Ernest V. Shockley
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Indiana in 1809
The Territory of Indiana was reduced to less than its present area when the Territory of Illinois was set off by the congressional act of February 3, 1809. This act provided that "From and after the first day of March next (1809), all that part of Indiana Territory which lies west of the Wabash river, and a direct line drawn from the said Wabash river and Post Vincennes, due north to the Territorial line between United States and Canada, shall, for the purpose of temporary govern- ment, constitute a separate Territory, and be called Illinois." This act left Indiana Territory with its boundaries as at present with the excep- tion of the northern boundary. This remained an east and west line, tangent to the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, until the enabling act of Congress in 1816, at which time it was moved ten miles to the north, Michigan being compensated by being given what is known as the northern peninsula. At this time (1809) there were only four counties in Indiana : Knox, Clark, Dearborn and Harrison. Between this date and 1815, when the Legislature applied to Congress for an enabling act, nine more counties were created : Jefferson, November 23, 1810; Frank- lin and Wayne, November 27, 1810; Warrick and Gibson, March 9, 1813; Washington, December 21, 1813; Switzerland, Posey and Perry, Septem- ber 7, 1814. Jackson and Orange counties were organized in December, 1815, but the acts creating them did not go into effect until the following year, and consequently the memorial sent to Congress asking for the enabling act carried the names of only thirteen counties. These thirteen counties reported 12,112 males of twenty-one and upwards, and a total population of 63,897 for the whole Territory.
Dearborn
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Clark
Harrison
Indiana Territory after February 3, 1809, when Illinois Territory was set off. Indiana was given its present boundar- ies with the exception of a ten-mile strip along the northern boundary, which was not added until 1816.
By Ernest V. Shockley
Indiana in 1816
Indiana was formally admitted to the Union on December 11, 1816, at which time there were fifteen counties : Knox, Clark, Dearborn, Har- rison, Jefferson, Franklin, Wayne, Warrick, Gibson, Washington, Switz- erland, Posey, Perry, Jackson and Orange. Congress passed the enabling act on April 9, 1816, providing for an election on the 13th of the follow- ing month for 43 delegates to a constitutional convention, the convention to assemble on the 10th of June. The convention met at the appointed time and concluded its labors on the 29th of the same month. Jonathan Jennings, the president of the convention, issued a call at once for an election to be held on August 5, 1816, for the selection of such officials as were provided by the new constitution. The first Legislature convened at Corydon on November 4, 1816, and three days later Jonathan Jennings was sworn in as the first governor of the state. However, as has been stated, it was not until the 11th of the following month that . Congress passed the act formally admitting the state to the Union.
A glance at the map shows that all the counties were grouped in the southern part of the state, the remainder of the territory still being held by the Indians. Knox county, with a population of 8,068, was the largest, although Franklin, Clark and Washington each had over 7,000, the four counties containing more than half the population of the entire state.
WAYNE
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FRANKLIN
DEARBORN
JEFFERSON
SWITZER- LAND
WASHINGTON
GIBSON
CLARK
HARRISON
PERRY
POSEY
WARRICK
INDIANA AS IT APPEARED IN 1815, WHEN IT APPLIED FOR ADMIS- SION TO THE UNION
By Ernest V. Shockley
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Indiana in 1818
All the land in the state of Indiana with the exception of the Clark and Vincennes grants was purchased from the Indians, the first purchase being in 1795 and the last in 1838. The map shows all the separate tracts purchased up to and including what was known as the "New Pur- chase," which was secured in the fall of 1818. The Vincennes and Clark grants were made in 1779. both tracts being given out- right by the Indians holding them. The first tract in Indiana pur- chased by the United States lay between the Ohio-Indiana line and a line drawn from the mouth of the Kentucky river northeasterly to Jay county. erossing the Ohio state line to Ft. Recovery in Mercer county, Ohio. In addition to this tract secured in 1795 the Indians agreed at the same time to relinquish their claims to three small tracts, one at Ft. Wayne, and the other two on the Wabash river, at the head of the river in Allen county and at Ouiatenon, just below the present city of Lafayette. The third tract purchased lay in the southwestern part of the state along he Ohio and Wabash rivers and was secured by the treaties of August 18 and 27, 1804. The second tract lay in the southwestern part of the state and included the Vincennes tract, Governor Harrison concluding the treaty which secured the tract on June 6, 1803. The next purchase in- cluded all of the southeastern portion of the state not previously secured, Governor Harrison concluding the treaty at Grouseland, near Vincennes, on August 21, 1805. The next purchase, September 30, 1809, added two separate tracts to the state, a ten-mile strip west of the tract purchased in 1795, and a much larger tract north of the tract of 1803 and west of the tract of 1805. This second tract of 1809, like the purchase of 1803, in- cluded territory in the present state of Illinois. The next purchase, and the largest one the government ever made in the state, is known in In- diana history as the "New Purchase," and included all the central portion of the state. The treaty was concluded in October, 1818, and the Legis- lature with the act of January 20, 1820, divided the immense tract into two counties, Delaware and Wabash. The map shows the counties the several tracts purchased from the Indians up to 1818, and the counties as defined in the part secured prior to that date.
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