INDIANA TRAILS
HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
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Franklin County, Indiana
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WHERE
YOU CAN FIND INFORMATION IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA
Franklin
Co. Historical Society
P.O. Box 342
Brookville,
Indiana 47012 |
Tri-County
Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 118
Batesville,
Indiana
47006 |
Whitewater
Valley
Genealogical Association
PO Box 941,
Connersville, Indiana
47331
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Brookville
Community Library
919 Main St.
Brookville,
Indiana 47012 |
Laurel
Community Library
200 N. Clay St.
Laurel,
Indiana
47024 |
Birth,
Death Records
Franklin County Health Department
Franklin County Courthouse
459 Main St.
Brookville, IN 47012 |
Land
Records
Franklin County Recorder
Franklin County Courthouse
459 Main St.
Brookville, |
Marriage
Records
Franklin County Clerk
Franklin County Courthouse
459 Main St.
Brookville, IN 47012 |
 
 
This
county was named in honor of the distinguished Benjamin Franklin. The
northeast portion is level, the central and western portions rolling,
and in many places quite hilly. The timber, which was originally
plenty, consists of oak, sugar, beech, hickory and black walnut.
The soil is generally good. A considerable portion
of the county is
bottom land, lying along White river and it branches.
These bottoms are, as usual, a very rich soil, well
adapted to the
growth of corn. The uplands are better adapted to the growth of wheat
and grass.
The farming interests of the county are fully up to
those of other
counties in the State. This county has some interesting antiquarian
features.
There are numerous mounds of earth and structures of
stone, imbedded in
the earth, and prepared with apparent skill, so that the deposits of
some very distant period are found in a
remarkable state of preservation.
Franklin county has all the natural elements for success, and is
rapidly increasing in population and wealth.
Brookville, the county seat, is located on the Whitewater division of
the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and La Fayette Railway.
It is an enterprising, educational town, rapidly
increasing in
population, wealth and importance.
The major cities and towns of Franklin County are Batesville,
Brookville, Cedar Grove, Laurel, Mount Carmel and Oldenburg
Franklin County was made effective February 1, 1811. Franklin
County was the sixth
county formed and was taken from Dearborn and Clark Counties in
conformity with the legislative act of November 27, 1810.
The additional organization of Fayette and Union
counties in 1819 and
1821 greatly reduced the area of Franklin County.
Brookville is the
County Seat. Named after Jesse Brook Thomas, the original proprietor,
it was first settled in 1804 by Lismund Bayse, James Knight, Robert
Breckenridge, John Test and Amos
Butler, and by 1849 had a population of about 1,200.
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