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The Indiana Historian. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau. {{cite journal}}: |author= has generic name CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ; Dunn Jr., Jacob Piatt (1919). Indiana and Indianans : A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood. Vol. I.
Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States Census , the population was 28,182. [ 1 ] The county seat (and the county's only incorporated city) is Salem . [ 2 ]
The largest county is Allen (657 sq. mi., 1,702 km 2) and the smallest is Ohio (86 sq. mi., 223 km 2). [3] According to the Constitution of Indiana, no county may be created of less than 400 square miles (1,000 km 2), nor may any county smaller than this be further reduced in size, which precludes any new counties. [4]
The present-day document, which went into effect on November 1, 1851, is the state's second constitution. It supersedes Indiana's 1816 constitution and has had numerous amendments since its initial adoption. Indiana's constitution is composed of a preamble, articles, and amendments.
Even though the Constitution of Indiana of 1816 prohibited slavery and servitude, [3] Harrison sold Clark to General Washington Johnston, his wealthy uncle and member of the Indiana General Assembly. He was a recent widower. [4] On October 24, 1816, she was purchased for $350 (equivalent to $6,284 in 2023) and had an indenture contract of 20 years.
Parke was the Indiana Territory's attorney general (1804–1808); a representative to the territory's first general assembly (1805); its first territorial delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1805–1808); one of the five Knox County delegates to the Indiana constitutional convention of 1816; and a territorial court judge ...
Blue River Friends Hicksite Meeting House and Cemetery were established in a Quaker settlement northeast of Salem in Washington County, Indiana. The meeting house was built in 1815. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 2019. [1] [2] The meeting house is now called the Old Blue River Friends Church.
William Augustus Bowles (1799 – March 28, 1873) was a physician, landowner, and politician from French Lick, Orange County, Indiana.He is best remembered for establishing the first French Lick Springs Hotel, a mineral springs resort hotel in the 1840s, and platting the town of French Lick, Indiana, in 1857.