MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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Located in Central Indiana, Morgan County is bounded by Hendricks and Marion Counties on the north, Johnson County on the east, Brown and Monroe Counties on the south and Owen and Putnam Counties on the west. It was organized in 1821 from sections of Delaware and Wabash Counties and named for General Daniel Morgan, a Revolutionary War hero.
The county's terrain varies widely from relatively level farmland in the northern sections, to rugged, heavily forested areas in the south. Morgan County is well watered with the West Fork of the White River bisecting the county from the southwest to northeast and numerous tributaries flowing into it. It was along this river where much of the county's early activity occurred.
When the 1818 Treaty of St. Mary's ceded all land south of Fort Wayne to the United States Government, settlement of this vast area began in earnest. It was in that same year that Jacob Whetzel and his son Cyrus blazed a 60-mile trail following an Indian trace from Laurel in Franklin County to an area known as "The Bluffs" near the White River in Morgan County. Known as Whetzel's Trace, it served as the primary route for settlers coming to central Indiana from the east and was heavily used until the construction of the National Road through Indiana during the late 1820s.
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