Sullivan County Indiana

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The county's first settlement occurred between 1808 and 1812, by a religious society of celibates known as Shakers. The 400 members of this communal group occupied 1,300 acres, seven miles west of Carlisle.

In 1815, Carlisle was founded.

Sullivan County was formed on 30 December 1816 from Knox county; was organized by an act of Legislature, which became effective January 15, 1817. It was named for Daniel Sullivan, said by some sources to have been a Revolutionary War general killed by Native Americans while carrying a dispatch between Fort Vincennes and Louisville.

Sullivan county is 447 square miles in size.

Sullivan County is divided into 9 Civil Townships as follows: Cass, Curry, Fairbanks, Gill, Haddon, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson and Turman.

A log courthouse in Merom served as Sullivan County's first county seat from 1819-1842. Merom was an important river port and a stop on the stage route known as The Old Harrison Trail.

On February 15, 1841, the Legislature passed an act that provided for a board of commissioners to select a new seat of justice, to be located as near the center of the county as possible. Sullivan, then an unbroken wilderness, was selected and the present town was platted. The formal transfer of records took place in 1843. By 1849 it contained the Courthouse, Jail, County Seminary, Churches for the Methodists and Reformers, and 400 inhabitants.

The Courthouse, along with all records, was destroyed by fire February 6, 1850.

Sullivan was founded in 1853 and became the county seat.

In 1968 Sullivan County Park and Lake was founded. It contains a 468-acre reservoir in 1968 for swimming, boating and fishing. Sullivan County Park and Lake has 400 acres of land for camping as well as a 9-hole golf course.

Welcome!

My name is Judi Burns and I am the new County Coordinator for Sullivan County.

Using the Side Bar Navigation Choose the item use wish to explore ie "COUNTY" then:

Place your pointer on one of the main bar items
then left click and it should open to a list of items under that category
Then look at the list of items those in BLACK are working links
Choose you item use wish to explore
again Place your pointer on one items
It should turn color to a light gray background
then left click and it should open to the data page
Everything that was on one page is there broke down by item or category - nothing has disappeared only new items or links have been added and didvided into pages.
Its that simple!
The light green items are my hopes dream for the site - there is no pages or data for those categories as yet - Sorry

I would like to encourage you to contribute to the site if you have information to share. I can't run down to the court house or over to the library to find out about your "Aunt Harriet" and I most definitely don't know where grandpa is. I'm here to put your information online. I'm not able to do your research for you.

This site is dedicated to providing FREE information, we don't charge you to use the site or for the information here. However, please do not violate any copyright© laws. You are absolutely encouraged to use the information here for your personal research and Please feel free to provide me with more information for the site. It is sadly lacking.

Have you submitted information the past year and it is not up on site? I have found nothing more than what I have put up on site thus far - Please feel free to contact me - or re-send me the information. I am sorry that it was not on the server to include.

Katy has consented to be my assistant - coordinator; she had been sick last year - and doing better.

I have had a major computer break down - my XP went dead just as I was finishing up the Obituary file the end of August. It was just within minutes of having the Obituaries that were on site all transfered over to the new format and ready to upload. I am back after finding 2 units this a Windows 95 and a 98SE yet to be set up. I have answered all e-mails in between done some research. There is "Last updated 28.11.2008 " which is outside of the main table of the page - this is intentional on my part as a part of crossing referencing my files - on this and when I get the files off of the XP. - a means to warn me to check the content before discarding.

Please feel free to make helpful suggestions for improvements to the site and to offer assistance. Please take time to visit the Indiana Genealogy Website Home Page. You will find their link on every page. Thank you for visiting. Please return soon!