INDIANA TRAILS
HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
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Spencer County, Indiana
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This
county bears the name of the patriotic
Captain Spier Spencer, of Harrison county, who fell in the battle of
Tippecanoe.
The south part of the county is level, the middle undulating, and the
northeast hilly.
The soil, for the most part, is a rich, black loam, with an under soil
of yellow clay, mixed with sand.
Though in places steep hills or extensive flats do not encourage
agricultural improvements,
the prevailing timber was oak, hickory, ash, poplar, black gum, walnut,
sugar beech, etc.
Large crops of corn are raised on the extensive river bottoms; and, in
the interior, corn, wheat, grass, and other
grain.
Rockport is the
county seat a lively town on the Ohio river.
The county has made general improvements.
Spencer County, Indiana needs a
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