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Floyd county, named either in honor of Davis Floyd, who fought at the battle of Tippecanoe, or in honor of John Floyd, an early surveyor, was organized Jan- uary 2, 1819, with the county seat at New Albany. Its location on the Ohio river brings it within the group of counties which have a very broken surface and its 94,720 acres are too hilly to allow successful tillage. However, there is a con- siderable portion of the county which has been brought under cultivation, although it cannot be said that it is good farming land. The assessed valuation in 1914 was $12,810.630. There are six banks in the county. It has 57 schools, 14S teachers and 5,011 pupils. It is one of the few river counties which has not shown a decrease in population. Its population has gradually increased since 1860, when it was 20,183, until it reached 30,293 in 1910.
New Albany, the county seat, has maintained a population of about 21,000 for four decades. It is on the Ohio river, five miles northwest of Louisville, Kentucky, and is reached by the following railroads: B. & O., P. C., C. & St. L., C. I. & L. and Southern. It has three banks, two trust companies, two building and loan associations, three newspapers, one high school, eight ward buildings and two schools for colored children, a hospital, seven theaters and churches of the leading denominations. Among its many important industries may be enumerated cotton mnills, two rolling mills, furniture factories, flour mills, stove and range factory, edge tool works, planing mills, boiler and engine works, rug factory, hame and chain works, vending machine factory, cooperage works, woolen mills, tanneries, brick works, box and basket factory, and other factories produciug such products as cigars, hosiery, dyes, glue, poultry powders, gasoline engines, hardwood drawer stops and wood specialties of various kinds.
Other towns in the county include Georgetown, Greenville, Silver Grove, Galena, Edwardsville, Duncan and St. Joseph.
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Harrison county, named in honor of Gov. William Heury Harrison, the fourth county organized in the state, was created by the territorial Legislature with the act of October 11, 1808, with its county seat at Corydon. Its land area of 311,040 acres is very broken, due to the fact that it is on the Ohio river. Its assessed valuation in 1914 was $6,579,650. It has 150 schools, 184 teachers and 4,526 pupils. It has six banks. It had a population of 18,521 in 1860 and 20,232 in 1910.
Corydon, the county seat, a town of 1,703 population, is in the center of the couuty, and connected with the Southernrailroad by the L., N. A. & C. branch line of seven miles. The town is thirty miles from Louisville and twenty-four from New Albany. The first court house in the county, a stone structure, was built in 1811-12, remodeled in 1873, served as the state house from 1813 to 1824, and is still in use, the oldest court house in the state. Corydon was the first capital of Indiana, an act of the legislature removing it from Vincennes to Corydou in 1813, and a subsequent act providing that it should remain at Corydon until the close of 1824. It has three banks, two newspapers, three saw mills, two planing mills, flour mill and good schools and churches.
Other towns and villages in the county are Laconia, Lanesville, Mauckport, Crandall, Palmyra, Elizabeth, New Amsterdam, New Middletown, Utan, Fishtown, Convenience, Rosewood, Elbert, Evan's Landing, Valley City, Titus, Glidas, Dog- wood, Rehoboth, Hillgrove, Worth, Dixie, Locustpoint, King's Cave, Sinks, Breck- enridge, Whitecloud, Sharp's Mills, Sunshine, Mott, Corydon Junction, Ramsey, Moberly, Frenchtown, Depauw, New Salisbury, Byrueville, Bradford, Central Bar- ren, Hancock and Lowdell.
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Crawford, named in honor of Col. William Crawford, was organized January 29, 1818, with Mount Sterling as the county seat. The situation of the county on the Ohio river brings it within the most broken part of the state and much of its land area of 193,920 acres is unfit for cultivation. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $2,702,155. There are 85 schools, 110 teachers and 2,917 pupils enrolled in the county. The banks number four. The population of the county in 1910 was 12,057, the county reaching its greatest population in 1890, when it had 13,941.
Few counties in the state have experienced greater difficulty in securing a permanent location for the county seat. It remained at Mount Sterling until 1822 and was theu taken to Fredonia, where it remained until 1843. It was changed to Leavenworth in that year and after a bitter struggle was removed to English, its present location, in 1894. English had a population of 583 in 1910 and of 649 in 1890. The ouly railroad iu the county, the Southern, passes through the town. The town has one bank, two newspapers and three churches. A canning factory and flouring mill constitute the main industries of the town.
Other towns in the country are Leavenworth, Marengo, Alton, Milltown, Temple. Taswell, Eckerty, West Fork, Magnolia, Weathers, Cape Sandy, Sulphur, Wickliffe and Pilot Knob.
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Dubois county, named in honor of Capt. Toussant Dubois, the official guide of the soldiers from Vincennes to Tippecanoe in 1811, was organized December 20, 1817, with Portersville, on the East fork of White river, as the county seat. Its area of 273,280 acres is very brokeu, but there is a goodly portion of it which makes good farming land, particularly that in the valleys of White and Patoka rivers. The latter river runs through practically the center of the county from east to west; the East fork of White river forms part of the northern boundary. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $8,762,300. There are 101 schools, 158 teachers and 3,872 pupils. The county has 10 banks. The county had a population of 10,394 in 1860, of 19,843 in 1910, but its greatest population was recorded in 1900-20,357.
The county seat was moved from Portersville to Jasper in 1830, which, with its population of 2,196 in 1910, is the second largest town in the county, Huntingburg being the largest according to the 1910 census. The Southern railroad is the only one touching the county seat. It has three banks, two newspapers, three churches, a fine school building, electric lights, paved streets, water works, sewage system, furniture factory, wagon works, veneering plant and a number of smaller indus- tries. Jasper College is located at the county seat and is liberally patronized by the community.
Huntingburg, the largest town in the county, is located at the junction of two branches of the Southern railroad, eight miles south of Jasper. It has three banks, three newspapers, seven churches, electric lights, water works, paved streets and a number of industries of importance.
Other towns iu the county are Ireland, Bretzville, Altoga, Birdseye, Ferdinand, Holland, Kyana, St. Anthony, Celestine, Dubois, Crystal, Hillham and Haysville. Ferdinand is connected with Huntingburg by a branch of the Southern railroad. It has a population of 1,200, a bank, newspaper, brewery, planing mill, brick yard, saw mill and flouring mill.
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Pike county, named in honor of Zebulou Pike, of Pike's Peak fame, was organized December 21, 1816, with its county seat at Petersburg. It lies largely in the valleys of the White and Patoka rivers and most of its land area of 216,- 320 acres is susceptible of tillage. It has extensive coal mines and a well de- veloped oil and natural gas field. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $7,504.705. There are 98 schools, 151 teachers and 4,722 pupils. The county has four banks. The population iu 1860 was 10,078 and it reached its greatest number of inhabitants in 1900, when it had a population of 20,486, dropping off to 19,684 in 1910.
Petersburg, the county seat, with a population in 1910 of 2,170, is the largest town in the county, It is located in the northern part of the county on the C. & E. I. railroad. It has two banks, two newspapers, water works and electric lights. The principal manufactured products are buttons, canned goods, flour and lumber. There are extensive coal mines in the immediate vicinity.
Winslow. the only other incorporated town in the county, has a population of 950. It is on the C. & E. I. railroad, and has a bank and newspaper. Coal and natural gas are found in abundance, mining being the main industry.
The unincorporated villages of the county include Mackler, Velpen, Hartwell Juuction, Isom, Spurgeon, Stendal, Zoar, Claybank, Pikeville, Cabel, Coe, Hart- well, Augusta, Arthur, Noxid, Ayrshire, Massey, Littles, Oatsville, Hosmer, Coat's Springs, Union, Giro, Rogers, Blackburn, Iva, Algiers, Otwell, Cato and Rumble.
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Gibson county, the ninth in the state to be organized, was created by the territorial Legislature with the act of March 9, 1813, with Princeton as its county seat. It was named in honor of Gen. John Gibson, secretary of the territory during the sixteen years of its existeuce (1800-1816). The county is bounded on the north by White river and on the west by the Wahash river, and consequently lies in the midst of the garden spot of the world. Its land area is 311,040 acres. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $18,634,345. There are 124 schools, 239 teachers and 6,772 pupils. The county has 14 banks. Its population has shown a steady increase since 1860. At that time the county had a population of 14.532, while by 1910 it had increased to 30,137.
Princeton, the county seat, has grown rapidly within the past few years. Its population of 6,448 in 1910 had increased to an estimated 9,000 in 1916. It is at the junction of the Southern and C. & E. I. rallroads, and is connected by an electric line with Evansville, twenty-seven miles south. The city has three banks, two newspapers, eight churches and an excellent system of public schools. It is supplied with electric light, water works, has paved streets and a sewage system, and the shops of the Southern railroad.
Oakland City, located in the eastern part of the county, at the junction of the Southern and E. & T. H. railroads, is a flourishing town of 2,400. It has two banks, a newspaper, five churches, electric light, water works, and a number of small industries. It is the seat of Oakland City College, a Baptist institution, which enrolls several hundred students each year.
The other towns of the couuty include Hazelton, Francisco, Owensville, Fort Branch, Patoka, Haubstadt, St. James, Somerville, Mounts, Buckskin, Mackey, Fet- ters, Lyles and King. Owensville and Fort Branch are thriving towns of more thau a thousand and have a number of small industries.
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Posey county, named in honor of Thomas Posey, governor of Indiana Terri- tory from 1812 to 1816, was organized September 7, 1814, with its first county seat at Blackford, located in the northeastern corner of Marrs township. The organization of the county and its history for several years is closely associated with the settlement of George Rapp and his associates, followed later by Robert Owen and his followers. New Harmony was the center of scientific thought and investigation during the twenties, and here was gathered the most famous group of scientists the world then had. The history of the communistic experi- ment at New Harmony has been written by George B. Lockwood in his "The New Harmony Movement."
The county is located in the extreme southwestern corner of the state, and is bounded on the south and west by the Ohio and Wabash rivers, respectively. Its land area of 257,280 acres contaius excellent farming land, although a part of the county contaius land too broken to admit of profitable farming. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $15,625,049. It has 78 schools, 166 teachers and 4,253 pupils. There are nine banks in the county. The population of the county in 1860 was 16,167 and it increased each decade until 1900, when it reached its greatest population, 22,333, the 1910 census showing a population of only 21,670.
Blackford. the first county seat, was too far from the center of the county to be satisfactory, and in 1817 it was moved to Springfield, which was nearer the center of the county. Here the seat of justice remained until 1825, at which time it was permanently located at Mount Vernon, on the Ohio river. Mount Vernou, a city of 6,000, is reached by the L. & N. and C. & E. I. railroads and an electric line from Evansville. The city has three banks, five newspapers, electric lights, water works and paved streets. Its industrial establishments include flour, saw and planing mills, foundry and machine shops, two elevators, handle and stave factories, vehicle factory, furniture factory, glove factory, cigar factories, imple- ment factory and a number of smaller industries.
The other incorporated towns in the county are New Harmony, Poseyville, Cynthiana and Griffin. New Harmony, with a population of 1,400, is the second largest town in the county. It has two banks, a newspaper, electric lights, water works, fiue public library and four churches. The history of this town will be forever associated with the Owens and the community life they established here.
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Vanderburgh county, named in honor of Henry Vanderburgh, one of the first judges of the state, was organized January 7, 1818, with its county seat at Evansville, the former county seat of Warrick county. The county is in the southwestern part of the state on the Ohio river. Its laud area is 149,120 acres, and, with the exception of a few broken sectious, most of the county leuds itself to profitable agriculture. There is considerable coal mined in the county. Its assessed valuation in 1914 was $51,790,670. It has 94 schools, 410 teachers and 13,384 pupils. There are 11 banks. Its population in 1860 was 20,552, and it has shown a heavy increase at each succeeding ceusus, the 1910 census giving it a population of 77,438.
Evansville, the county seat, is on the Ohio river, and is reached by the C., C., C. & St. L .. C. & E. I., I. C., L. & N., L. H. & St. L., E. S. & N. and Southern railroads. There are six traction lines radiating from the city. Its location on the Ohio river furnishes it with an easy and cheap method of transportation, and six steamboat lines afford prompt transportation.
The city has an area of ten and a half square miles, 33 miles of paved streets, 275 miles of cement and stone sidewalks, 250 acres of parks, four public libraries, 2S school buildings, 16 private and parochial school buildings, 75 churches, five daily and 11 weekly newspapers, 12 hospitals, homes and asylums, 33 miles of street railway, 12 banks, U. S. custom house and postoffice building.
The location of the city and its proximity to cheap coal has made it au importaut manufacturing center. Among its manufactured products may be mentioned cigars, furniture, gas engines, edge tools, store fronts, steam shovels, brooms, queensware, buggies, flour, beer, closet combinations, lumber, plows, stoves, glass bottles, locomotive headlights and sheet metal specialties. It has the second largest brewery south of Milwaukee, the second largest edge tool factory in the United States, one of the largest irou store front factories iu the United States and one of the largest gas engine factories in the world. It also claims to have the following factories, each of which is the largest of its kind in the world : Cigar, furniture, buggy, steam shovels, closet combinations and brooms. It is the largest winter wheat market in the world and has five flouring mills pro- ducing 6,500 barrels of flour daily.
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