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Johnson County is divided into 9 Civil Townships as follows: Blue River,
Clark, Franklin, Hensley, Needham, Nineveh, Pleasant, Union and White River.
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Johnson County was Formally organized May 5, 1823.
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Franklin, the County Seat, was laid out in 1822 and the first settlers were
Samuel Herriott, George King, John Smiley and W. G. Springer. By 1849 it
was the site of Franklin College, had four good churches (one for each of
the denominations of the Old and New School Presbyterians, Baptists and
Methodists), a County Seminary, about 250 houses and a population of 1,750.
Also in 1949, a "plank" road was underway to the bluffs of the White River
and was projected to extend to Mooresville.
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Governors Paul McNutt and Roger Branigin were born in Franklin. --
thanks to Kathleen Branigin Linderman
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The boulder in front of the Courthouse was moved there from a field just
south of Division Road between 700E and Sugar Creek -- Thanks to
Judith Fowler Robbins who was raised on the farm next to this
land.
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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, 1830.
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Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Johnson County start with the
prefix 41 because it is the forty-first county in alphabetical listing.
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