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Union County is divided into 6 Civil Townships as follows: Brownsville, Center,
Harmony, Harrison, Liberty and Union.
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Union County was organized February 1, 1821.
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That Liberty wasn't always the County Seat.
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Brownsville, located in the northwestern part of the county, was the first
County Seat.
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Due to agitation started within a year of establishment of the first County
Seat, in accordance with the legislative act of December 21, 1822 the County
Seat was moved to Liberty, a more central location, the change being made
in 1823. First settled in 1822 by S. Jennings, C. Burkhalter and E.
Burnside, by 1849 Liberty contained 110 houses (seventeen of which were brick)
as well as a Courthouse, Jail, Public Offices, County Seminary, Market House,
a Methodist and Christian Church, five dry goods stores, one drug store and
twenty-one shops for various mechanics; the population at this early date
was 370 inhabitants.
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The Brownsville Covered Bridge (built in 1840) is now in Bartholomew County,
Columbus, located on a pond in Mill Race Park.
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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 Union County start with the prefix
81 because it is the eighty-first county in alphabetical listing.
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