Harrison County, Indiana

Harrison County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

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Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for General William Henry Harrison, First Territorial Governor of Indiana who later became the 9th President of the United States.

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History

Harrison County was established December 1, 1808, and was the fourth county organized in Indiana having been taken from Knox and Clark counties. Harrison County has a long and interesting history dating back to the late 1770s when the area was captured by George Rogers Clark and added to the territory of the United States during the American Revolutionary War.

Harrison County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Blue River, Boone, Franklin, Harrison, Heth, Jackson, Morgan, Posey, Spencer, Taylor, Washington and Webster. Scott Township is now included in Harrison Township.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Washington County
Northeast: Floyd County
East: Jefferson County, Ky.
South: Hardin County, Ky.
Southwest: Meade County, Ky.
Northwest: Crawford County

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."

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