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LaGrange County is divided in to 11 Civil Townships as follows: Bloomfield,
Clay, Clearspring, Eden, Greenfield, Johnson, Lima, Milford, Newbury, Springfield
and Van Buren.
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LaGrange County was formally organized April 1, 1832.
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The City of LaGrange wasn't always the County Seat.
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The first County Seat of LaGrange County was located at the site of the old
Indian village of Mogoquinog, which afterward became Lima.
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LaGrange, platted June 18, 1836, began the process of becoming the County
Seat by an act of the Legislature of February 12, 1840 in an effort to locate
the County Seat near the center of the county population. First settled in
1842, the Courthouse was completed December 5, 1843 and one year later the
transfer of the record occurred. By 1849 LaGrange had three stores, seventy-five
dwelling houses and 200 inhabitants.
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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 LaGrange County start with the
prefix 44 because it is the forty-fourth county in alphabetical listing.
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