Select this LINK to see GENERAL Washington County information and links.
Select from the TOWN list above to learn which township the community is located in, and view information and links specific to that area.
Select from the TOWNSHIPs Table below to view information and links specific to the township.
Please note:  Though the information on this web page is believed to be correct, the possibility of error remains.  Please notify the webmaster should an error be found.
 

• Washington County, Indiana (County Government)
• Washington County Organization and History
  
• Washington County, Indiana (Commerce & Visitor's Guide) includes:
• countyhistory.com: for Washington County, by Ronald Branson!
• Indico: for Washington County - information.
• City of Salem, Indiana
• The Depot Railroad Museum
• Clark State Forest
• Spring Mill State Park
  
• The Political Graveyard: for Washington County, Indiana created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum - a web site about U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.
• Use the query form, at USGS, 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.
• Indiana State Library.
   140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
• Indiana Cemetery Locator Database
• Indiana Biography Index
• Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850.
• WWII Servicemen Index
• Images from the County
• County Newspaper Holdings (in Indianapolis)
• Hoosier Homestead Awards for Washington County.
• Kentuckiana Genealogy - Washington County, IN
• INGenWeb for Washington County Genealogy, by Jerry Morris Mounts & John Walter Mead.
• Washington County Cemeteries
• Washington County Biographies
• The Millers of Washington County, Indiana, by Jim Miller, includes The History of Washington County, Indiana 1884!
  
• Salem-Washington Township Public Library
  
• 212 North Main Street - Salem, IN 47167-2099
• Phone: (812) 883-5600    E-mail:  salemlib@blueriver.net
• Washington County Historical Society, Inc.
   
• 307 East Market Street - Salem, IN 47167   Phone: (812) 883-6495.
• Genealogical Library
• Jasper County Public Library - holds the General R. H. Milroy Collection
 
• 208 West Susan Street - Rensselaer, IN 47978   Phone:  (219) 866-5881.
• General Robert Huston Milroy - Civil War Collection (born 1816, in Washington County, Indiana, relocated to Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana in 1854).


Contacts to obtain many documents and cerified copies:

• Washington County, Indiana (County Government)

• Washington County Health Department (For Birth & Death Records from ca. 1882)
   35 Public Square - Salem, IN 47167-2054  Phone: (812) 883-5603.


• Washington County Circuit Court Clerk (For Marriage and Divorce Records)
   Courthouse
   99 Public Square - Salem, IN 47167-2054  County Clerk - Phone: (812) 883-5748.
 
• Washington County Recorder
   99 Public Square - Salem, IN 47167-2054  County Clerk - Phone: (812) 883-4001.
 
• Washington County Surveyor (For County Maps)
   99 Public Square - Salem, IN 47167-2054  County Clerk - Phone: (812) 883-4604.

Brown Township communities include:  Campbellsburg, Mt. Carmel and Saltillo.

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Franklin Township communities include:  Bunker Hill, New Liberty, New Philadelphia, New Salem and South Boston.

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Gibson Township communities include:  Little York and Pumpkin Center.

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Howard Township communities include:   Becks Mill, Organ Spring and Rosebud.

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Jackson Township communities include:  Martinsburg.

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Jefferson Township communities include:  Haleysburg, McKinley, Prowsville and Rush Creek Valley.

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Madison Township communities include:  Livonia.

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Monroe  Township communities include:  Kossuth and Plattsburg.

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Pierce Township communities include:  Farabee and New Pekin.  New Pekin extends into western Polk Township, where the community of Old Pekin is located.

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Polk Township communities include:  Bartle, Blue River, Daisy Hill and Old Pekin.  New Pekin extends into western Polk Township, from Pierce Township.

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Posey Township communities include:  Fredericksburg and Hardinsburg.

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Vernon Township communities include:  Claysville and Smedley.

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Washington Township communities include:  Canton, Harristown, Hitchcock, Norris (Harristown) and Salem (the county seat).

• Thank you to Trent Roberson of flashport.net and flashportfoto.com for informing me of the new Salem website!
  

City of Salem, Indiana

Salem, Indiana Schools

The Depot Railroad Museum

• Salem-Washington Township Public Library
  
• 212 North Main Street - Salem, IN 47167-2099
• Phone: (812) 883-5600    E-mail:  salemlib@blueriver.net
• Washington County Historical Society, Inc.
   
• 307 East Market Street - Salem, IN 47167   Phone: (812) 883-6495.
• Genealogical Library

• 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.