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Perry County is divided into 7 Civil Townships as follows: Anderson, Clark,
Leopold, Oil, Tobin, Troy and Union.
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Perry County was organized November 1, 1814.
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Perry County was the last county to be created before the Territory of Indiana
applied to Congress for an enabling act.
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The County Seat wasn't always Tell City.
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November 1814 the commissioners chose a site on the Ohio River for the new
County Seat and gave it the classical name of Troy.
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The County Seat was moved to Washington, which changed its name to
Franklin.
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September 1819, the County seat moved to Rome, which which was first settled
in 1811 and by 1849 contained 170 houses of which only 20 were brick.
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On December 7, 1859, the County seat moved to Cannelton where a new Courthouse
had been built and donated as an inducement to move by an enterprising coal
company that was interesting in booming the town.
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The County Seat was moved to Tell City in the early 1990s with the construction
of a new Courthouse.
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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 Perry County start with the prefix
62 because it is the sixty-second county in alphabetical listing.
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