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Wabash County is divided into 7 Civil Townships as follows: Chester, Lagro,
Liberty, Noble, Paw Paw, Pleasant and Waltz.
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Wabash County was formally organized March 1, 1835. It had previously been
a part of what is now Huntington County.
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After intense competition between the towns of Wabash and Lagro for the
designation as the County Seat, an election made Wabash the County Seat by
a majority of one vote.
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Wabash was first settled in 1835, and the first Courthouse was a brick structure
forty feet square, costing $3,000, which was finished in 1839 and continued
in use until June 17, 1871, when it was destroyed by fire. By 1849 Wabash
contained about 200 houses ,of which one-fourth were of brick, and there
were 1,000 inhabitants.
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Wabash was the first electrified city in the United States.
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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, 1840.
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Indiana automobile License Plates issued in Wabash County start with the
prefix 85 because it is the eighty-fifth county in alphabetical listing.
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