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*First created in 1838 from
*County seat: Hartford City
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Converse, Hartford City, Matamoras, Millgrove, Montpelier, Renner, Ridertown, Roll, Shamrock Lake and Trenton.
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Surrounding Counties:
N = Wells
County,
W = Grant County,
IN
S = Delaware
County,
Below is an 1875 overview of Blackford County,
Indiana.
SOURCE: An
Illustrated History of the State of Indiana…, By De Witt C. Goodrich and
Prof. Charles R. Tuttle, Indiapolis :
Richard S. Peale & Co., Publishers, 1875.
BLACKFORD
county was named in honor of Judge Blackford, one of the pioneer judges of
Indiana. The surface of this county
differs but slightly from that of Adams.
It is quite level, and in some places gently undulating. The soil is good and well adapted to the
cultivation of wheat, rye, corn, oats, potatoes, etc. The exports consist of wheat, cattle, horses,
and hogs. The soil is well watered by
the Salamonie and Lick creeks, the former a splendid manufacturing stream. With the exception of wet prairies, the
surface was principally all upland, heavily timbered with oak, ask, beech,
poplar, sugar tree, walnut, hickory, cherry, etc. The first settlement in the county was made
in 1835, by Mr. John BLOUNT. In 1837, a
colony of emigrants from Vermont settled in the county, and laid off the town
of Montpelier, named in honor of the capital of their native State.
Hartford
City is the county seat of Blackford county, and is one of the most
enterprising towns of northeastern Indiana.
It has ample railroad facilities, bringing it in direct communication
with Indianapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Toledo, and all the great commercial
centers of the northwest. This place
affords a splendid opportunity for the investment of capital and skilled labor. Generally speaking, the county has made good
progress in agricultural pursuits, in commerce, and education. The schools are excellent. Land is cheap and productive, and there are
many inducements for new settlers to locate in Blackford county.
Montpelier,
another incorporated town in this county, is, if possible, still more
enterprising than Hartford City. While
second to the latter in population, it is fully up in commercial industry, and
is destined to be the leading commercial and manufacturing mart of the county.
· 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.
- countyhistory.com: for Blackford County, by Ronald Branson!
- INGenWeb for Blackford County – Genealogy
- Blackford
County Tombstones
- Early
Churches of Blackford County, Indiana
· Indiana State Library. 140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
o Indiana Cemetery Locator Database
o Indiana Biography Index (published before 1990)
o Indiana Biography Index (published since 1990)
o Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850.
o Index of Indiana Marriages, 1993 through 2002
o Newspaper Holdings: Holdings by county (in Indianapolis)
o Images of Indiana: 92 Counties // from Adams to Whitley
o Vital Information Exchange (VINE)
- Major Family History Resources
- ICPR Collections
- Naturalization Databases for the Indiana counties of Blackford, Dubois, Elkhart, Floyd, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Howard, Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Randolph, Switzerland, Union, Wayne, and Whitley.
- Blackford County Historical Society
- Blackford-Wells Genealogy Society
- P.O. Box 54 - Bluffton, IN 46714
- Soldiers and Sailors in the Civil War
- Blackford County Genealogy, hosted by Judy.
- The Hartford City Public Library
- Montpelier Public Library
· Blackford County Government Offices
· Blackford
County Health Department (For Birth and Death Records from 1882)
· Blackford
County Circuit Court Clerk Courthouse,
110 W. Washington Street - Hartford City, IN 47348 Phone: (765) 348-1130.
Blackford
County Recorder: Phone: (765) 348-2207.
Harrison
Township is located in northeastern Blackford county, with the Salamonie River
meandering through the northeastern corner, passing
- Blackford County, Indiana Home Page, by Dennis Walker
o A Short History of Montpelier
Jackson Township communities include: Converse, Millgrove and Trenton.
The town of
- Hartford City, Indiana
- Blackford County, Indiana Home Page, by Dennis Walker
- Hartford City Index - A brief Hartford City Historical Sketch and Area Churches
- Blackford County Historical Society
- The Hartford City Public Library 314 N High Street - Hartford City, IN 47348 Phone: (765) 348-1720.
Printed resources for this page include:
- School and Library Atlas
of the World. Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor). Sycamore,
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