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Rush County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Anderson, Center,
Jackson, Noble, Orange, Posey, Richland, Ripley, Rushville, Union, Walker
and Washington.
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Rush County was organized by an act of the Legislature December 31, 1821,
which became effective April 1, 1822.
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Rushville is the County Seat. Settled in 1821 by Drs. H. G. Sexton and
W. Laughlin, Joseph Nicholas, Stephen Sims and others, by 1849 it contained
twenty-one stores, twenty-two mechanics shops, thirty carpenters and masons,
eighteen professional gentlemen, one merchant mill, two sawmills, large and
convenient churches and 222 dwelling houses with about 1,000 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, 1830.
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Wendell Wilke ran his famous campaign for President of the United States
from the Durbin Hotel in downtown Rushville. Thanks to Joe Saxon.
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Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Rush County start with the prefix
70 because it is the seventieth county in alphabetical listing.
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