Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 98

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Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co.
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Ju 1834, thr Methodist Church creeled n semiunry, which was the first step Inunril # perminuent public school. In 1828, they commeuced to erecl Their church, and in 1869, huilt their present fine edifice. The Buplists lini precedent them, but did uol erect so Gno buililings.

In 18;18, the only hotel wny kept by lobn E Collon ; now there Are six In 185h, The Presbyterian Church was built.

Aml in 1828, the old log jail, from which prisoners conll ensily escape, nus replaced by a frisk one, which stood Till 1814.

Befuro 1844, no regular mail irns carried, bul that year u irerkly muni bel ween lunistille ond Eransville was established, trhich inude regular stop- nl forkjott Nuu There are three dlaily iunils.

The town is now one of the best on the Ohio lliver. It contains about hifly slures, five large blacksmith shops, tivo extensive Bouring-quills, three st. mills, Inin breuemes, one carding-mill, fro ungon and biggy manufne- loriry, tua planing. mills, a furniture fnelory, three brick furds in large number of The buildings are brick), twelve saloons, Tiro private links, Inte Imilding und loun associations, nine churches with good cungregitions The Melbolli: (4 ore strongest in point of numbers, and have a fine church lintding The fulbodies are ereeling one equally ns fine, wlanth will be nceujuel the coming Anunoer. The other denominations uro the Presby- Irrmin, Baptist and Germin Lutheran.

The old seminary is now used by the high school. School is also main. Iniued in Inn Inildings in the outskirts of low'n for the beuebt of Those un. uble lu go The distance required tu attend the high school. They are geu- rrally small jepils, ur those in tho lower grades. The school for the colored peuple is sejurate, hut muniutained as the others. Mr D) 1l. Smith, for some Inno Principinl of The semmary, is the Superintendent.

The first paper jeblisheil in Rockport was called the Rorkport Gazelle, 'P J Laugilen, puldisher The first number was issued on fuolseop paper, and every business unn in town had nu culverlisement in 11. Three aire pruerally headtil, "Grocery, t'affee House and I'ruvision Store." Nuw Ihree Ariry, u sprightly iluily issued by tho Deinneres, hnt enliteil ky J. 11 Mesmoore, 1judy Cont Clerk, one of Rockport's liveliest leon The other papers ure addr editel, nuit me a credit to The county When the beu railrond IM rompdelil, luckport enn he the city on the river, between New Allumy onil HammLille,

DALI

in l'artee Town: hip, ranks next. It has n populaipin of some fre dr .15 buhel. I hn, there churches, three hotels, about a linif dozen stores, and Iun Imer tolicen slemmerits.

is it village of a half dozen houses, is a place of little commercial ruine, lait hring wu the farm naco owned by the father of Abraham Lincoln girs il verme local relebrity, li is ou the Cincinnati, Ruckport & S. W. R. I.

NI, MILIVRAR

fjannounced Mionil fis io the northeastern putt of the county, near the Dubois l'unly finv, About turuly-firo or thirty years ugo, the I'ntholies establishedl Ilare a schon for munks and priests. This uns held in a wouden building at the fiul uf n hill, uh uhich, u fei rears since, they courmeneed the erection of ane of the lorgest munsteries in Aturrien. They but e already completed the nmin torilding, which has a front of tiro huwlrel mul forty feet, and n depth of lilly feel, There will he built in the rear of This, jojued In it, u kaibling for the further use of the monks. These will be ulwout eighty feel wide, nil estewel beck one hmurel nud ninely feet, leiving un open space el the mine diurnsions between them. Thus the irhole buibling, melwling this spure, will be in the form of an exnel square. The Infl ou which il shable uus ing off lo a depth of fifteen feel to the solil rock, ail thr first tour u ay ent in this The shine from which the building wus to be creeled Apy Inke'n from au adjacent hill, called, from the one an Hinty similns by il. Muunl Casino,

The town contains ubiont one hundred inhabitants, hay n store or livo, wir janing- mill nud one shingle factorr.

li supports ene school und one church, aside from the monastery, both Catolie. All the schools in thal low'nship, bul Iwo, are Cathohe in senti- irent, nud ust the German Calholis reuters, rveite duily the Catholic cafr- chism and fitmuy, thongh supported by general Inanlion, and khontu as coln-

Bu Hlen of building this immeuse building, the " Mecen uf Itedlinha" (for the Catholics on this port munke nunnnl pilgrimages In it in Mar ). IN to alintu seclusion and quiet. It is Ien miles from any rnilromt, and in the mildest quirt of The county. "There are several small touns in this cunniy, bnl ther puisrss no cour mirreinl rulur ont of their immediate neighborhood.

COUNTY HISTORIES,-CONTINUED.

EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS INTHISE

Inlsule of the low'n mentioned, there are me bundreil und thirty schools mmmtajneil, giring employment lo one hundred umul forty trophers These Are paid frum thirty to forty-bre dollars per month, und are employed shout six months in the year. In Harrison Tounship, the population is nlutosl entirely German, and professing the Catholic religion ; nud in many of their selinals the tenets of thul body are laughi.

The county contains about fiventr. livr church orginimtiuns tonsille of the Inuns mentionedl Those in The country ure mmuly Methodlid, Inptist nad Lutheran, the former haring the greatest ammnurr.

More wholesome enterprise is needed in all departments af life. And n hen the emmy gires her citizens autlets to northern markets (which will he daue before long), the wealth of her fehl, Birest and mme u ilt place her in the foreinDel rank

ADAMS COUNTY

Adams County i bonailed on The east by The State of Ohio, on the soulli by Jny Conbis, on the irel by Wells alul on the nurth by Mlen County It i« Twenty-four miles in length, froin north lo south, mind fourteen in bremilih, ampl conlains Bn0 square miles. The county itus hamel in honur of Presi-

The face of the country is generally level, being beautifully undulating in some quarters bear the $1. Mary's anil Wabash Rivers. There are no Wir- rous in the conoly', nudl Ind fittle uer prairie, and not more than twenty-fire or thirty sections of bothmur Innle, the greuter portion being npfanils, hearily timbered. The iret prairies form the sources of the ereeks, uml here iro finil The water-shed, from which the water runs both torranl thu St. Lmir- reneo mul Mississippi Rirers, In these suampy sections are thany ilefinable Traces of henver ilnms.

The soil is mixed elny und marl, und apparently becomes more fertile the longer it is cultivated.

Timber was originally in abundance, consisting of chn, heeth, hickory, ngh, bookeye, poplar, uninut, linden, syramore, collomiruoil and oak.

The surplus produels consist of irlical, corn aml har, and horses, cattle anıl hogy in considerable number are raised for exportation.

The principal trater coursts are the Wabash | signifying a cloud hloun fer- auril Iny nn equinoctinl wind, Decording to Webpler], running northwesterly fur perernl mites, then taking a sontherly cour-r, and emptying ils irstersinto the Dbio , mund the St Mary's or Kekiunga, nhich enters the county un the onalern sple, runs northweal and unites isith the SI, Joseph, forming the Mau- ner af Fort Wayne, which empties into Lake Erie. These rivers, within the limits uf the countr, are of ahoni an equal size, and their average nulth is nhuut 150 fell. The St. Mary's was frequently nutigaled with keel anil fint- baals, but unvigation is nou obstrueleil by mill ilams. The smaller streams are Yellon Creek, running ensl and north, abil implying into the St. Mary's Rirer, and Seventeen-Mile Creek, Indian Creek uml Jalite Bine Creek, in the southeastern part of the cuunir, which all rise within a quarter of a miile of each other; in fact, iall of the same stramp. The one rana southwest into the Wubasb, thence to the Ohio, und the other north into the St. Mary's, and thence le Lake Erir

The comity is only pirtinlly Jevelupeil, as the reports of the products show. I'Dlil December 25th, 1871. nl The time of The opening of the Lon- einuoti Rnilromvì, il wus entirely without railroads.

11 hos mibile good progress in agriculture, commerre unil blue ilion.

The county is divided into luelve lewnships-l'reble, Root and Union in Ilir north ; next SI, Mary's, Washington and Kirkland; then French, Mon- roe nul Blue Creek, noul in the south Jefferson, Wabash nad Hortinril.

A large portion of the inhabitants nrr Germinns, who, with their plurky inilustry, trill, ere long, make this naturally rich-soiled region one of the most aruinelive in the SImie. unt the soil being clur, orerlying the silica und enl- eurem L'pper Silurian rocks of the Ninghen grin, in most rnses the result- ing soil, being from Iwo In luenty feel ileep, although fertile, is inclined to he tenurome, nod the surface of the ronniey being rather leret, the chur- neler of The lawt iny be desigunteil us frequently loo rrientire of moist- ure, except in very dry scaseus. It requires Thorough and coolinned denunge lo levrlop its tost qualities.

L'ITST PECORD OL AMINE PILUNTI.

The act of the General Assombly orgamzing The county of Adunis irns approved Januarr 24, 18UD. The Governar, in conformity lo Inw, 16310 1 a writ for the election of' the necesary county uthrers on the first Monday in April, 1846, at which time Fehu 8. Rhen, Samuel South And Wul. Heath, Jr., irere electeil Coumy Commissioners, in and for enid cotthils Samuel h Rugg was elected f'leik, and David Meknight, Sheriff. Il ins oplered that Hvid Mektughi be allowed the sum of one dollar and fifty ermis for mfver- living in the Furt Wayne Sentinel The nel organizing the coumy of Vilnius.

Thomas Ruble, Esq., mode a report on onih of the fims nupused lo' him since the organization of Ibe conuty, which amounttil lo så

It was ordered that John K. Crans be appointed Sengunry Tinslee, nud That he gire bunds and security in the . inn of $24 for the performnner of Ins

Drdend, That Jeremiah Roe be appointed Treasurer uf the county until February next : nud Thut Durid MeKnight be appointed Assessor, to serie witil the hrst Moulay in January, IN: and thin Juhh k. Erons be up. pointed Cullector of the Slate and countr rerenne, for anr yeni, from the hrel Momlay in May, 183G.

11 i'm- plan ordored, Ihal the following persons br appointed gruwel jurors for the Inll term of The Circuit Court, for With: Joel Hoe, Jahn llos9, Sr., | Whichurl Ror, B. W Butler, Wm. Hesib, Jr., Jonny l'onre, John Cullerlin, Hlouutbon Itue, F.li Zimmerman, Inmes Ball, Bohert Smith, Jebu S. Rhen, B. F. Horseline, Sumurl Smith, Win. Bull, Wni. Thericher, We. Horum, Abra- ham Elifritz, aml the following as petit jurors: lohn W Wise, Thouins Inble, Holm W. Cooley, Joseph Wise, Joseph Thatcher, l'eter Sindobuker, Enos W. Butler, Www. Ainjor, Vnehel Ball, Jushua Major, Joseph Trontner, Weurge Wimer, Beujninin F. Blossom, dob Wolf, Jaarph Ihll, Jucob Enginud, Utha Guwly, Jumes H. Bull, Esoias Daily, Duvil Fitzsimmons, Philip frei- inun. Dauiel Ball, Thorcan Hurper and Zselmarinh Smith.

Williniu Stewart, J. H. MedInken, Willimu G luibison umil Robert Wood were uppoiuntil Commissioners to locate the commity seal, and after receiving nud cousblering proposals from Thenuns Johnson, H. L Brilon, Henry Work, Joseph Margin, Thomas Prichard und Saunel 1. Angg. Accepted thal offered by Samuel Juhnson, to u il

"I nill give al iny town site, on the St. Mary's Bier, in consideration Ihni yon permanently locate the canulr stat of the county of Alums ul The sile aforesaud, the sum of three thousand buc humlred dullurs, fre hun- trat in one year from ihale und the residue in three years from tis dale. Mso, bour bol- for churches, lo wit : une for the Thisbylerinus, our for ihr Mettedisis, who for the Baptists nud one for the Roman Catholics 1 ivill give, niso, bulf un uere for a public square, phir nere far a county senbuary, And ti pirre of land quot lo rxeced tiro neres) for n grinteyuril. I will also J'y the Localing Commissioners, und furnish a house to hold court in at the spring term of The year 1820, und umil the putdie binldings uru erectel "

And The l'ommissioners, " after due leliterration, iln selvet umt rsbullish the nforesaid site, offered by -- Juliuson, us the most sinfulle, mil there. upu permanently fix und esluchilish the caunty sunt of the rumity of A.humus, on the sarl site, being part of the northeast quarter of Section ", Janushij IT worth, Bange 14 enel, And they therengon prueerileil to the aforranid

Imin site, ond markerl n whitr-onk tree, with blazes, on four sides, on each of which the Connnissinners individually inscriheit their names ; wloph tree is in bo within the Inun site."

The first court hunse ond juil trere built in 1837. The first contract Iras giren to Richard MeKnight undl Willimm boris, hint They released the Bourd from Ilwir contract, mul Inzil Brorning Prerted the bnihlings.

MI The September term of the Commussumors' Conrt, il nas umdereil thut the sum of tirealy-fre dollars be paid, out of the demalion for the Inention of the county sent. to Junies M. Wilsun, un the order of William Lewis nml Dovill Meknight, contractors, far building saul juil. An order uns also giren for three hundredl illlars to Bazil Brenning. The juil ciet Three hmmulreil all tirenty- fire dollars, and ilus billing is still used for jail jmirposes,

The first Deirspaper published in the county irus The . landhat. The next, The Decatur Gozde, cilited by James 11. Smith und Joshun Randall. Then tho . 1dams County Deinocrat, published in 1814, by Jumrs B. Sincoke. The Decatur Eagle, in Fehrunry, HAT, puldished by 11. L. Phillips am W. G. Speleer. In the year IS9 H passeil into the hands of A J. Hill, who con- dueteil it until Norewiker, 1871, when Joseph MeGunngle bought it, and changed the uame lo the Deoilur Demoeraf.

A piper called the Young . Imerica uns started in 1838, and discontinued in 1859, Tiro Vorners were thr pliturs, The Decatur Herchf uns com- menced by J. R Boho and Seyumur Warden, in 1873.

The first setller in the commity tras - Thompson, u ho grilleil on Thomp- sou s Prairie, twelve miles south of Deentur, about the year 1830. lle liredl bul a short time in the county.

About the same time, a 3h. Ayres settled on the road side of the St. Mury's River, six or sereu miles aharo Preatur. Hle built a cubiu on an oht Inilian camping-ground, on what irns enfled " Wayne's Trace"-the rente Gen. Wayne ent theangh ou his murch Win Cincinnati To Fort Defiance, The next seliler was a colared man, named Willimin Lewis, Hle built n enbin lio miles below Deentin', on the St. Mary's Rirer, wrhero he ilivil in 1841.

Soun afterward, Alexuniler South, Jeremih Rar, - Mujura, Judin K. Eraos, Benjamin F Blossom, Kli Zimmerman, Esnins Duily, Samuel 1, Rugg and others cuine nul settled in different parts of the county. About this time, also, Perer Sindelinker mul Itnniel Miller settled on the Walsish, in the southern part of the county, eighteen inthe's Crum Drentur.

George A. Drul came to the county in 1996, aud settled ano mile cast of Decatur, and built n enbin und oleared up n form of tun Impulred nul fifty acres, Mr lieut suys if he had let the nobile trees of luck unlaut nod nik, irbieb he eul down, stanil to the present time, he iranhl hare sared n good ilcal of tuusele, nuil been beller off financially, although he lins nothing lo com. plain of in that respeel.

Those old pioneers had n hard time of it. They frequently mede journris from here to Piqun, Ohio-a distance of wxlr miles-fir meat und other neces vries. But after the settlers got Ine maising corn, they took it in n caase donn the St Mary's Hiver (wemy- fire miles, bi the St. Joseph-ubere the two rivers unite and form the Mauune af Fort Wayne-n here there i'ms & Dill, And got it ground They say it usually took from four lo five days und from six to seven grillons of nhisky to make the trip.

Mr. Deut remembers hifilge Simlrhusker ns n hor neuring mucensis, dret- skins being [dentifu], wud much used for w coring uppurel.

The comunity irns lote in the comuniencement of its settlements, but in 18dr. mul after, settlers enme in rapidly.

Jacob Barks built the first grist and sent- muilt in the routly, Ino miles below Decatur, on the One-Mile Preek, u smull stream emplymg into the St. Mury's River.

The woods then ahumuled in deer, will Turkeys, furry, wolre:, &c., uml the strinn4 furnished nhumulant supphes of the finest fah.

The first marriage license ins granted to Joseph Trontumn andl Sarah Wimer, July 1, mul they were hurried, by Thouns Ruble, Justice af the Felice, on the til of July.

The first Circuit Court wns hell im Ajail 18, 1837, at which liwe llon. Churles W. En ing, Preziding Judge, nil Jahn K. Bruns und Hubert li. Iny, Esq., Associate Jurlges hiet nt the hanse of lohn Hernolls, noil Jiulge Ening presented his commission from Gor, Nonh Noble, which ins in The words and figures following, riz. :

"NoAll NOULE, GorEnEnn IF THE STATE in INILINI, to all who iholt ice these Presents, greeting. Know ye that in the name und by the authority ol' The State of Indinun, I ilo hereby rummission Charles W Bu ing Presidiog Indge of the Eighth Judicial Cirenit in sund State, rice Ilom n. A Everts, resigurd, lo serve for the term of zeven peirs from the 5th duy of luuuaner. 18 :3 "

WILLIAM SHEET, Secretary of Stale

NIIVI NOBLE, Governor."

D.vi Studebaker-son af Peter Simpluunker, of Juy t'ounty-hus resided for muny rears in Hecalor, where he hns bern, and still is, n promiavut altor. ney lle has representeil the raunty sereral rears in the Legislature af the Stale, as Member of Assembly and Senator, mil served unhile as Indge of the Common Plens Pourl.

The first ease in the court ivas . Vexamler Smith, Treasurer af the Board of School Trustees 18. Thomas Ruble, which uns dismissed nt the cost of defendant.

In 1839, Darid Kilgore wus Presiding Judge, mul Judge li. Finns onid W'm. Elgeny, Associnte Juilges.

The first ileed recorded is one from James Hifer to B'li Zimmermann fur serenty-ibree neres of land, adjoining the town of Drealur, for $120, iluteil December 16, 1835.

li was ordered by the P'ounty Commissioners al the Jununry ferm, 1spl, " thul The seal of the board should he of binss, five-eighths of an inch thick und une nud three- fourth ineles in dinmieter, ef cireular farm, nith henry circular litnes irithio the periphery, with tho wurde, 'Ailmins Hunrid of County Commissioners, Indiana,' then other cirenlur lines, within irhich is a figure ol' n Durham short.horn cow, slamdling with her head to the right hand ol the seul."

Al noother session, it was ordered Ihnt scaled proposals should be Freeirod by the Clerk for a puundl feneo, amil if nny of the bids shunll be less than $7, the ruutract should he let ; if not, the l'lerk should build it ut that price. The pound to be on the public square, twenty nine hy forty feel squore; the fence to be six feet high, anil of good large posts nudl rails, and gale font frel wole, furnished with a lock muudl key.

In 1812, the Commissioners oflered the sum of $3 far every wrolf six months old and upward, and afterward SI on ruch wolf whelp less than six months ohl.

The first agricultural society in the county wus ergauizeit in 1863. $ S. Mickto, President; Gee. A. Hent, Vire P'resulent; D Studubaker, Seere- tary, John McConmel, Treasurer; D. Irwin, C. & Dornin, J. t'rabs, S Steele, A. Scales, It. Winnings, L. Mattax, L. Freuch, J Muitin, J. Cran- ford, T. Loof borrowr nul A Summers, Direclors,

Population of the county in 1860, 0 1870, 11,283

9,99

The present court house was trerted in 1878, al w cost of shadows It is u beautiful wid commodiuma structure of Philmirlphia presved brick, Berea saudelone and iron, with bull floors of marble. It is fire- proof, nud ils court roum is beautifully frescoed and jounted, The huilling is Ito stories high, wilh & Mansoril ronf, sereuly by any humulred mml Twenty feet in dimeuslous, with a louer nearly one hmutred mul sixty feot high from the

the withern part of the county, of the river a feir miles uluive the conlily seit, is The second biun li coutains n population of near n thousand. lis Irude is carried on by luelse stores, nod Three huge tobacco houses 11 is The principal wirkel for that section for bar, tohacen and cabbages. large units of the futter ure groun in its immediate noighborlivol. many firm- era mining trem tueuly lu forty acre ..

There are four churches , one gradel school, imploring bur teachers, ul our newspaper, The Monitor.

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COUNTY HISTORIES,-CONTINUED.

tmnsement. The building is one of which the people muy justly be proml, hn it is umlouhteilly as fine n building for the cost ny enn be found in Nithern Indiane.

Klishu Onhek, a Baptist prencher from Virginin, is the oblest tunn living in the county. He emne lo the county in 1850, aml preaches for the people whenerer nn opportunity offora, withont money anil withont prier.

The present alfirers of Adnmis County are: Amlitor, II. Christian; Clork, 11 Il Hent : Trensmer, John Dickson; Recoriler, John Schinrger, Sheriff, K I'. Stoopy ; Surreyor, G. F lintz ; Coroner, I. B Balhuan ; Commission- ers, Grorgr Frank, Benjamin Bemyson oml .Joseph Spiller ; Representative in L'ongiess, A. II. Hamilton ; Stufe Senator, John S. Arninghausen ; Repry- senintive, A. N. Martin ; Presiding Juilge uf the Circuit Court, Iarob M Haynes, of Jny L'ounl).

The Ainms f'ounty . Agricultural Society nus reorganized in Inne, 1876, with Kmunuel Wuodds, P'resident, und Inhn W. Rout, Trensurer. They linie Thirty arren of ground leused fium the county, and have buildings ererleil atul a good Irurk for driving. The fir hehl in Ortober, IXf6, iras n surveys a" n shoiv nf fine stock und products, and satisfactory us to finaneiul results

DECATUR.

Decatmi, thr county seul of Mlnmis County, hisenty-onr miles southeast of Fort Wayne, nu the Cincinnati, Richmonul & Fon Wuyne Railrorul, was huid out in 183b, ky Sumuel L. Biggs, John Rtrynolds and Joseph Johnson, 140. prielors.

The first citizen of the town muy Jarub Huffer, County Surveyor, who built tho first house, of lugs; Somuel Rtuggs, the secoml, The first store nas kepl hy llenry lleicharil, of Willshire, Ohio, in a hen eil log cabin. The population of the loin is about 3,000.

There is one laptist, one P'reshyleriun, one Methodist, noe 1intherin, one Evangeline) Association nuil one Roman Catholic Church ; ulan, nu Thlil Fel- loiry' larlgo mul Encampment, aml one of the finest bulls in Northern In- iliana, which cost Sitt000; n Loilge of Free nnil Accepted Muyons, and a hull nnil houge of the Knights of Pything.

Derulur has one barrel factory, three grist-mills, one ehuir factory, ont sture fuetory, seven ilry gouds und fonr grocery stores, thier ihng hnuses, Ihrer hurdmure stores, ihrer bofels, firo breireries, tiro lirery stables, ihrer raniogr and ingin factories, ele. There is quile an extensive lumber traile carried un hrre, by Iny yurds

a small tonn sis miles south of Derntur, is also on the Cincinnati, Richmond A Fort Wayne Inilroail, und hus a Methodist Church. Population, 900.

first rallel Butlalo, hns a population of 00. It is situated on the t'incin- noti, Richmond & Furt Wnsur Railroad, und was laid out by Darid Snide- baker, ih 187 ;. Il conining n Methodist Church.

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IN a small inten, also on the Cincinnati, Richmondl & Fort Wayne Ruilroad, and nos laid out by Bir. B. B. Snoir, in 1873.

is turtre miles south of Decalnr, on the same road ; was lidl ont September 1301, 1871, by John Ihity und Abraham Lathmore.

NONHOI TI.

three miles north nf Decatur, on The same road, and on the St. Mary's Birri, eros laid out June 26, 14 1G. It lins one Methodist und one Buplist Church.

Itas Ind ont by Itmidl Crabby und [I. J Rice, in 1871.

RITA: VISTI.

fire Imile4 up Thr St. Mary's lirer from Dreafor. had 300 inhabitants in 1470. und wns Inil ont by Gor. Heath And E A. Goddard, in 1846. It has whe Methodist and one Baptist Church

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Is mn Bine t'reek Tonnship, nud nns luidl ant hy George Sypher, in 18hf, unil hing one Methodist Church and a population of 300

ALLA ANDIR

nas Inid ont in 18113, by t'hurley Lindley.

The Patins of Husbailry hinve iwelre Granges in the ronuty, with an nrerage muherslnp of nbont forty.

The number of' school children in the county, in 1874, wus 6,337: nrer- Agr nttrmilanee, 2,457; number of arhuol houses, "8; number of teachers, lic, walny of school jouperty, $20,200, nmount expemild fur tuition, $18,818.00).

WASHINGTON COUNTY.

Washington County is in the southern interior portion of the Stulv. It has an arra of 329,226 neres

The general frainres nie amewhat diversified. The northern and sunth- ern portions are intile rulling: the reulral and enstern portions ure undnlnl. ing, while the more level Inuds prevail in the western parl. A wraluni rulgr rons northwest. sontheast through the county, in some plnres nlluining n height of 200 or 300 teet.

The anil on this portion is mixed, to some extent, writh clay, and is und well vilupled 10 the growth of grain, but is unsurpassed for fruit enlture. This is .extensively enltiratel in Washington County, nail n superior article proilneed. Finr unreries nre kryd, the seeillings of which bral reuly ante in this part of Indluun, med i tho miljoent parts of Keutneky. Que ownmil by Oliver ,Albertson is jnububly the largest in the county.

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Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 98

Author: Publication date: 1876 Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co. Number of Pages: 472

Author:
Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co.
Number of Pages: 472