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Orange County is divided into 10 Civil Townships as follows: French Lick,
Greenfield, Jackson, Northeast, Northwest, Orangeville, Orleans, Paoli, Southeast
and Stampers Creek.
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Orange County was formally organized effective February 1, 1816.
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Paoli is the County Seat. First settled in 1816, by 1849 it contained
excellent county buildings, a County Seminary, a Methodist and a Presbyterian
Chruch, 150 houses, of which five only were brick, and 400 inhabitants.
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In 1917 that tomato juice was first served, by world famous chef Louis Perrin,
at the French Lick Hotel.
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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 Orange County start with the
prefix 59 because it is the fifty-ninth county in alphabetical listing.
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