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Randolph County is divided into 11 Civil Townships as follows: Franklin,
Green, Greensfork, Jackson, Monroe, Stoney Creek, Union, Ward, Washington,
Wayne, and White River; Nettle Creek and West River Townships were combined
to form Union Township.
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Randolph County was organized August 10, 1818.
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The Naming of Randolph County -- some sources suggest that the county was
named for President Thomas Jefferson's first cousin, Thomas Randolph, who
was Attorney General for Governor William Henry Harrison and was killed in
the Battle of Tippecanoe. Historian Charles Roll indicates that Randolph
County was named after Thomas Randolph, but Gregory Hinshaw makes a very
strong case in the March 2002 issue of the Indiana Magazine of History that
the county was so named because so many of the early settlers came from Randolph
County, North Carolina ...
for a "Pop-Up" window with more
info click here .... -- thanks to Leon Hesser
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Winchester is the County Seat. First settled in 1819, by 1849 it contained
151 houses, of which 11 were brick, with a population of about 750.
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The Civil War monument on the Courthouse lawn is the 3rd tallest in Indiana
and Lorado Taft, World renowned American Sculptor, produced the bronze figures
-- Thanks to Phil DeHaven
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Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Randolph County start with the
prefix 68 because it is the sixty-eighth county in alphabetical listing.
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Robert Wise, director of such films as The Sound of Music, West
Side Story, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Day the Earth
Stood Still was born in 1914 and is a native son of Winchester
click here
for more info. -- thanks to R. VanDeventer
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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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Randolph County is bounded on the south by Wayne, on the west by Delaware
(and a small portion of Henry) and on the north by Jay counties while the
eastern boundary is secured by Darke County Ohio. -- thanks to
Joshua Harden
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