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CLARK COUNTY, Indiana
History <-> Genealogy
*First created in 1801.
*County seat: Jeffersonville.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include:
Bennettsville, Bethlehem,
Blue Lick, Borden, Broom Hill, Carwood, Charlestown, Clark
Siding, Clarksville, Henryville, Hibernia, Jeffersonville, Longview
Beach, Marysville, Memphis,
Miles Point, Nabb,
New Market, New
Providence,
New Washington, Otisco, Otto,
Owen, Perry
Crossing, Prather, River
Ridge, Rolling Hills,
Runyantown, Sellersburg,
Solon, Speed,
Starlight, Sunset Village,
Underwood, Vesta, Watson and Wilson.
Select this LINK to see GENERAL Clark County
information and links.
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community is
located in, and view information and links specific to that area.
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error
be found.
Surrounding Counties:
NW =
Washington
County, IN N = Scott
County,
IN NE = Jefferson
County, IN
W = White
County, IN CLARK COUNTY
E= Miami
County, IN
SW = Floyd
County, IN SE and E = The Ohio River
- Official
Clark County, Indiana
- Clark
County,
Indiana (Prosecutor's web site)
- City of
Jeffersonville, Indiana
- Brief
History of Clark County Indiana, A presentation by Mrs.
Charles Ryan
Cogswell to the Silver
Creek Cemeterial Association, on May 25, 1923 - Transcribed in 1995
by
James D. VanDerMark.
- Falls
of the Ohio State Park - "...Located on the banks of the Ohio
River in Clarksville, Indiana at I-65 exit 0...The 386-million-year-old
fossil beds
are among the largest naturally exposed Devonian fossil beds in the
world..."
Mailing address: Falls of the Ohio State Park
P.O. Box 1327 - Jeffersonville, IN 47131-1327
Phone: (812) 280-9970 E-Mail: fallohio@aye.net
Hours
and Map - George
Rogers
Clark History and Homesite
Harrison Avenue at Bailey - Clarksville, IN
47130 Phone (state park): (812) 280-9970. -
The Clarksville
Historical Society is "...also quite active in commemorating the
Lewis
and Clark Bi-Centennial, since Meriwether Lewis
met
William Clark (George's brother and a Clarksville resident also) at
Clarksville.
They recruited many of their men from the local area and left from the
Clarksville
riverfront in October of 1803. We are having an activity at the
homesite
in October to celebrate the event..." - Jane Sarles, President of the
Clarksville
Historical Society.
- Read more about
George
Rogers Clark on the website of the George Rogers Clark National
Historical Park, in Vincennes, KNOX County, Indiana.
- Indiana
Historical Bureau:
- Discovering
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
- The Lewis and Clark
Historic
Trail Site (Yankton, ND) which contains portions of journal entries,
timeline,
maps
and biographies
of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
- Millenium Explorers : Meriwether
Lewis
(1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838)
- Indiana
Dept. of Correction:
"...Jeffersonville, Indiana was the site of Indiana's first prison
which
opened in 1823...A fire destroyed the Jeffersonville prison in 1918 and
it
was rebuilt in Pendleton in 1923..."
- Indiana Historical Bureau Indiana Historical Marker Database for
Indiana State
Prison
-
Clarksville State Historical Marker - honoring Indiana State prison of
Clarksville
- Photo of
Indiana
State Penitentiary at Jeffersonville, Indiana, taken in 1910.
- Clarksville
Riverfront Foundation
- Forest Discovery
Center, with Koetter Woodworking's
Rough Mill, a new interpretive facility located in Starlight,
Indiana.
- Southern
Indiana,
Clark & Floyd Counties - "the Sunny Side of Louisville"
Visitors site with history.
- Clark County Prosecutor's: Clark
County,
Indiana Profile and links.
- Census Bureau: Clark County
Profile.
- Tiger: Interactive/Zoomable
Map of Clark County, Indiana.
-
USGS:
Use the query form to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated
places, and more. Please note that the map town listed
with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not
be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see
the location of the actual feature. This database may not be
complete, and, as with
any database, there may be errors.
- The
Political
Graveyard, for Clark County,
Indiana, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site
about U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.
- Indiana
in
the Civil War, by Kristopher and Larry Ligget.
- USGenWeb for Clark
County, Indiana
-
Kentuckiana
in Focus : Clark
County, Indiana Profile.
- Clark
County,
Indiana - Information and links from the prosecutor's office
- Indiana State
Library.
140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
- Clark County
Genealogy, by Lonnie Fink.
- 1820
Indiana Census Index, by Lori!
- 1860
Clark County Census.
- countyhistory.com:
for Clark
County, by Ronald Branson!
- 49th
Indiana
Reenactment Unit - hosted by Bart Johnson.
- Step Ahead of Clark
County
Resource Directory - community directory of Social Service
agencies
available in Clark and Floyd counties.
- Historic Southern Indiana
- for additional nearby resources.
- Louisville.com
- Louisville, Kentucky links and information.
- Southern Indiana Chamber of
Commerce - (address in nearby Floyd County)
- 4100 Charlestown Road - New Albany, IN 47150 Phone: (812)
945-0266.
- MyLocal.IN for Clark
County, Indiana
- The Evening News /
The
Tribune
- Jeffersonville
Township Public Library
- 211 East Court Avenue - Jeffersonville, IN 47131-1548 Phone:
(812) 282-7765.
- Clark County Government
- Clark
County Health Department (For Birth and Death Records from 1882)
- 1320 Duncan Avenue - Jeffersonville, IN
47130 Phone: (812) 284-6609.
- Clark County Circuit
Court (For Marriage and
Divorce Records)
- City-County Building at 501 East Court Avenue,
Jeffersonville,
IN 47130
Phone: (812) 285-6244, Marriage Records: (812) 280-5637
The Clark
County Prosecuting
Attorney's Reference Desk includes:
Clark
County Courts - "...The Clark Superior Court #1 was created by
statute
in 1967. At that time, it was given no jurisdiction to hear criminal
cases
or probate matters. It had concurrent jurisdiction with the Clark
Circuit
Court in civil cases, and exclusive jurisdiction over divorce and
juvenile
proceedings..."
Clark County Communities
Bethlehem Township communities include:
Bethlehem,
Miles Point and Otto.
Carr Township communities include:
Bennettsville, Broom Hill, Carwood and Wilson.
Charlestown Township communities
include: Charlestown, Clark Siding, Otisco, Owen, Rolling Hills and
Runyantown. - Brief History of
Clark County Indiana, A presentation by Mrs. Charles Ryan
Cogswell to the Silver
Creek Cemeterial Association, on May 25, 1923 - Transcribed in 1995
by
James D. VanDerMark.
- Silver
Creek Cemetery
- Worrell/Worrall
Cemetery Burials - "... 135 graves from the old Worrall
Cemetery were
moved from that location to the new "Worralls Burying Ground" plot at
Silver
Creek Cemetery..."
Jeffersonville Township communities
include:
Cementville, Clarksville, Oak Park and the City of Jeffersonville. -
Jeffersonville
- The City
Planned
by a President
- Town of
Clarksville,
Indiana
- A
History of Clarksville: The Oldest Anglo-American Town in the
Old Northwest: "...Chartered in 1783 by the State of Virginia,
Clarksville is the oldest
Anglo-American town in the Old Northwest..."Falls of the
Ohio
State Park - "...Located on the banks of the Ohio River in
Clarksville,
Indiana at I-65 exit 0...The 386-million-year-old fossil beds are among
the
largest naturally exposed Devonian fossil beds in the world..."
Mailing address: Falls of the Ohio State Park
P.O. Box 1327 - Jeffersonville, IN 47131-1327
Phone: (812) 280-9970 E-Mail: fallohio@aye.net
Hours
and Map - George
Rogers
Clark History and Homesite
Harrison Avenue at Bailey - Clarksville, IN
47130 Phone (state park): (812) 280-9970.
The Clarksville Historical Society is "...also
quite
active in commemorating the Lewis and Clark Bi-Centennial, since Meriwether Lewis
met
William Clark (George's brother and a Clarksville resident also) at
Clarksville.
They recruited many of their men from the local area and left from the
Clarksville
riverfront in October of 1803. We are having an activity at the
homesite
in October to celebrate the event..." - Jane Sarles, President of the
Clarksville
Historical Society.
For Lewis and Clark information See: - Discovering Lewis and Clark
- Millenium Explorers : Meriwether
Lewis
(1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838)
- The Lewis and
Clark
Historic Trail Site (Yankton, ND) which contains portions
of journal
entries, timeline,
maps
and biographies
of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
- Clarksville
Riverfront Foundation
- Jeffersonville
Township Public Library
211 East Court Avenue - Jeffersonville, IN
47131-1548 Phone: (812) 282-7765.
- Clark County Government
- Clark
County Health Department (For Birth and Death Records from 1882)
- 1320 Duncan Avenue - Jeffersonville, IN
47130 Phone: (812) 284-6609.
- Clark County Circuit
Court (For Marriage and
Divorce Records)
- City-County Building at 501 East Court Avenue,
Jeffersonville,
IN 47130
Phone: (812) 285-6244
Fax:
(812) 285-6283.
Monroe Township communities include: Blue
Lick,
Henryville and Underwood.
Oregon Township communities include:
Marysville and New Market.
Owen Township communities include: Hibernia,
Sunset
Village and Vesta.
Silver Creek Township communities
include: Hamburg, Sellersburg and Speed. The community of St.
Joseph is situated on the Clark and Floyd County line.
Union Township communities include: Perry
Crossing and Memphis.
Utica Township
communities include: Longview Beach, Prather, River Ridge, Utica and
Watson.
Washington Township communities include:
New
Washington and Solon. The town of Nabb is situated on the Clark
and
Scott County line.
Wood Township communities include: Borden, New
Providence
and Starlight. - Forest
Discovery
Center, with Koetter
Woodworking's Rough Mill, a new interpretive facility located
in
Starlight, Indiana.
[ Additional
Research
Resources for All Indiana Counties ]
Professional Research
Ann
McRoden Mensch,
Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching on-site, and with the
vast resources of The Allen County
Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical
collections in North America.
Printed resources for this page include:
- Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer. First Edition,
Second Printing. Yarmouth, Maine: Delorme. 1998.
- School and Library Atlas of the World. Fred W.
Foster,
Ph.D. (Editor). Sycamore, Illinois: School and Library
Publishing Company. 1982.
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