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Adams County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Blue Creek, French,
Hartford, Jefferson, Kirkland, Monroe, Preble, Root, St. Marys, Union, Wabash
and Washington.
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Adams County was organized March 1, 1836. A large tract of land lying between
Allen and Randolph counties had been previously called Adams County, however,
no organization had been effected.
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Decatur is the County Seat. Samuel Johnson offered as an inducement to have
the county seat located on his land, the sum of $3,100, four church lots,
half an acre for a public square, one acre for a seminary and two acres for
a cemetery. He further agreed to pay the expenses of the locating commissioners,
and furnish a house to hold court in until suitable buildings could be erected.
The county commissioners promptly accepted the offer "and proceeded to the
aforesaid town site, and marked a white oak tree with blazes on four sides,
on each of which they individually inscribed their names."
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Decatur was probably named in honor of Commodore Stephen Decatur and in 1849
it had seventy houses (three of which were brick, twenty-one frame and the
remainder of logs) with a population of about 400.
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According to the Society of Indiana Pioneers, an individual was a pioneer
of our county if they resided here on or before December 31, 1840.
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Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Adams County start with the prefix
1 because it is the first county in alphabetical listing.
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