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Grant County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Center, Fairmount,
Franklin, Green, Jefferson, Liberty Mill, Monroe, Pleasant, Richland, Sims,
Van Buren and Washington.
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Grant County was formally organized April 1, 1832.
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Marion, the County Seat, was selected during the summer of 1831, and the
first lots were sold on the first Monday in November, the first settlers
being David Branson and Martin Boots. The first Courthouse was not erected
until three years later and by 1849 the population had reached 700.
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An infamous 1930 lynching occurred on the Courthouse Square in Grant
County; this is documented in the book by By James H. Madison, titled
A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America
published in 2001 by Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Dr. Aaron Dicus, of Swayzee, Indiana was the inventor of the automobile turn
signal. Thanks to Mike Jones!
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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 Grant County start with the prefix
27 because it is the twenty-seventh county in alphabetical listing.
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