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Jackson County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Brownstown,
Carr, Driftwood, Grassy Fork, Hamilton, Jackson, Owen, Pershing, Redding,
Salt Creek, Vernon and Washington.
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Jackson County was organized January 1, 1816.
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Jackson County was the fourteenth to be organized in the Territory of Indiana
and was formed form Washington and Jefferson counties, the legislative act
having been passed December 18, 1815.
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Brownstown wasn't always the County Seat.
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The first County Seat was established at Vallonia in June of 1816. The first
courts were held in the shade of the old fort in the village.
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Brownstown established and became the County Seat November 1816; by it 1849
contained a Court House, County Seminary and public offices of brick, seventy
dwelling houses and a population of 400. The first settlers were A. C. Craig,
Charles Crabb, William Williams, William Congleton, William Crenshaw, John
Milroy and John Ketcham.
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Seymour was home to the first motorized vehicle built in Indiana ...
click here for the story!
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Seymour had the first commercial chewing gum factory in this country. Asa
M. Fitch invented "Fitch's Chewing Gum" in 1876; popular in Central Indiana,
the factory was located at Cincinnati Avenue near what is now know as O'Brien
Street.
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In 1866 the Reno Gang, led by brothers Frank, Simeon, and William, perpetrated
the world's first train robbery just east of Seymour.
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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, 1825.
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Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Jackson County start with the
prefix 36 because it is the thirty-sixth county in alphabetical listing.
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