This county is in need of a host if you are
interested please read our
Volunteer
Page and then email Kim
This county was named in honor of
General Thomas Posey, who was appointed governor of the Indian
Territory to succeed General Harrison. The surface of the county on the
Ohio and Wabash, with the exception of the bluffs, commencing at Mount
Vernon and extending four miles below, is flat bottom land, and was
formerly subject to yearly overflows, varying from a half to two miles
in width. But by the use of dams this land has been improved. The
interior of the county is undulating or rolling, and some parts are
comparatively hilly, but, upon the whole, lie remarkably well for
agricultural purposes. The only prairie in the county is about three
miles in length and one in width; and there are, properly speaking, no
barrens, Though the soil is thin in places; and near the junction of
the rivers there are so many ponds and so much low ground that it
cannot be improved with much profit. The bottom lands comprise about a
sixth, and the forest lands three fifths of the whole. The soil in the
bottom is a rich, sandy loam, formed from the deposit of the rivers;
that in the interior is mostly a dark, rich loam, resting upon a yellow
clay formation. It is best adapted to corn and grass, though fine crops
of wheat and oats are raised annually with very good profit in various
portions of the county.
Mount Vernon is the county seat, located onthe Ohio river. It is a city
of nearly five thousand inhabitants, with excellent public improvement,
fine literary and educational institutions and increasing commercial
interest. New Harmony is also a flourishing town of Posey County. It is
noted for the literary taste of its citizens, and for its education and
refinement.
Online Data
Where you can find information in Posey
County
Posey
County Historical Society
P.O. Box 171
Mt. Vernon, IN 47620 |
Alexandrian
Public Library
115 W. 5th St.
Mt. Vernon, IN 47620 |
Poseyville
Carnegie Public Library
P.O. Box 220
55 S. Cale St.
Poseyville, IN 47633 |
Birth
& Death Records
Posey County Health Department
126 E. 3rd St., Room 20
Mt. Vernon, IN 47620-1811 |
Land
Records
Posey County Recorder
300 Main St., Room 9
Mt. Vernon, IN 47620 |
Marriage
Records
Posey County Clerk
P.O. Box 606
Mt. Vernon, IN 47620 |
Contact: Barbara Indiana State
Host
|
Join our Genealogy Trails Midwest States
to get email notices when our county sites are updated.
For the Midwest States of:
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio
Join Here
N O T I C E: Please DO
NOT subscribe to our mailing list if you currently use a
Challenge/Reply type of spam software on your computer such as 0spam or
dropspam. These programs are INCOMPATIBLE with mailing lists.
|
|
© 2008-09 Genealogy
Trails
Page Updated
20 October 2009 |
 |
|
