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List of Residents In the Soldier's and Sailor's Children's
Home White County, Indiana needs a
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This county bears the name of Colonel Isaac White,
who fell by the side of Colonel Daviess, in the battle of Tippecanoe.
About two thirds of the county is prairie, mostly arms of the Grand
prairie. All of it has a rich soil, and at least one half is dry and
gently undulating, easily farmed, and not inferior to any land in the
same latitude for producing good crops of wheat, corn, rye, oats,
roots, and fruit; and grass grows well in the flat prairies, where
there is less sand mixed with the soil, Nearly one half of them are of
this character, and no part of the State is better adapted to raising
stock than this kind of prairie. Taking it as a whole, this is a good
agricultural county, and the farms have already been wonderfully
improved. The Tippecanoe river enters the county six miles west of the
north-east corner of the county, and flows in a southerly course,
forming the east boundary of the county for a distance of about six
miles, in the southeastern portion. This stream affords several very
fine water powers, two of which, at Mon­ticello, are considered
very superior. Numerous streams flowing into the Tippecanoe, from the
east and west, render the county a well watered district. Monticello,
the county seat, is situated near the center of the county, on the
Tippecanoe river, and the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw railroad. It has a
population of about eighteen hundred, and contains good public
improvements. There is located here one of the handsomest graded school
buildings to be found in the State. Numerous church edifices attest the
religious status of the place. The county possesses fair railroad
facilities; the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw and the Louisville, New
Albany and Chicago passing through and crossing near the center of the
county, at Reynolds. Among the towns of the county not already named,
may be mentioned Bradford, Brookston, Chalmers, Norway, Walcott,
Idaville, and Burnetts. Much of the lands of this
county are held by speculators, which, to a certain degree, has
hindered a rapid settlement; this, however, is being changed very fast,
and we may soon witness White county among the foremost of the State,
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