Green Township

Green Township

This township is situated in the southwest corner of the county, and is six miles from north to south, and four from to west, and contains an area of twenty-four square miles. The Bellefontaine Railroad passes through the southeast corner. Fall Creek and Lick Creek pass through the south end of the township, and unite near the west line.

Among the first citizens of Green were Judge Samuel Holliday"^ Thomas and James Scott, Henry Hiday, Samuel Gibson, Abraham Cotrell, William McCarty, James and Isaac Jones, Saul Shaul, and Elias Ellis. Following soon after we find Wesley AVhite, Washington Pettigrew, William A. Williamson, John Shaul, \Yilliam Alfont, O. B. Shaul and Samuel Nicholson.

The Noblesville and Pendleton pike passes through the north end of this township. The pike leading from the Hamilton county line to Pendleton also passes through the southern part of the north side on Fall Creek. The total length of both roads is nine miles. Foster's Branch flows through the eastern part and empties into Fall Creek three miles southwest of Pendleton.

The township has six school houses, valued at (including grounds, etc.) $2,550. It contains three churches, two post offices, one blacksmith shop, one store, one physician, two saw mills, and in 1874 three hundred and twenty-eight school children.

The population in 1850 was seven hundred and forty-four ; in 1860 it was seven hundred and nine; in 1870 it was nine hundred and fifty-four, and in 1874 estimated at eleven hundred. The number of acres of improved land in 1870 was seventy thousand and seventy ; value of farms and farm implements, $482,303; value of live stock, $65,560; value of all productions, $1,938,000. The number of Imshels of corn in 1870 was forty- seven thousand five hundred and seventy.

Among the prominent men who have filled county offices from Green, are Saul Shaul and Andrew Shanklin. It was also the home of Judge Holliday, of whom a personal sketch will be found in another place. Alfont is in the southeastern part, on the Bellefontaine Railroad, of which a fall account will be given elsewhere.

In the southern part of Green township on Lick Creek and Fall Creek we find some of the finest cultivated farms in the toAvnship. With its wide spreading fields and green pastures it presented an inviting prospect when I was there iu June last. It is now over half a century since it was first settled, and few, if any of the sturdy pioneers remain. The storms of time have swept them one by one away. The only one v>'ecall to mind is Thomas Scott, left solitary, like a strong tree after a tornado has swept over it.