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Huntington County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Clear Creek,
Dallas, Huntington, Jackson, Jefferson, Lancaster, Polk, Rock Creek, Salamonie,
Union, Warren and Wayne.
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Huntington County was organized effective December 2, 1834 and Captain Elias
Murray, then a member of the Legislature, proposed the name.
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Huntington is the County Seat and General Tipton was the original proprietor
of the land in which Captain Murray was one of the first settlers;
by 1849 it contained 150 houses and had a population of 700.
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The Wabash & Erie Canal cut through our county in 1834 and was a major
economic factor in european settlement and early development --
thanks to David Schenkel
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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 Huntington County start with
the prefix 35 because it is the thirty-fifth county in alphabetical
listing.
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