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Welcome To Sullivan County, Indiana
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PLEASE Let me know of any broken links or missing pages - I did not move my site from the server to new this last time and I am finding missing data - trying to recover it - but my files are still on my XP I am sorry for the inconvience at this time - I am short of pulling my hair out - 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 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. The new courthouse was completed on January 1, 1852 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. 
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