BlockHart Township
The complete chapter on this township from Warrick and Its Prominent People : a History of Warrick County, Indiana, from the Time of Its Organization and Settlement, with Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent People of the Past and Present, published 1881. 165 words, covering 6 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
3 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenbrier | - | - | 1 | - |
| Lynnville | 2 | 25 | - | - |
| Stanley | - | 1 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
6 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 6 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
165 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Warrick and Its Prominent People : a History of Warrick County, Indiana, from the Time of Its Organization and Settlement, with Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent People of the Past and Present, published 1881. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Hart Township
Hart township, in the northwestern part of the county, was given the name of Hon. John Hart, an early settler, and who was once Associate Judge of the Circuit Court. James Hinman settled in this township in 18 14. Among those who settled here early were Tubby Bloyd, Lane W. Posey, John McMurtry, Elijah Boyd, Charles Morgan, John Taylor, Henry Hopkins, Clem. Nutter, Isaac McSwane and the McCord family.
Lane, adjoining Hart, Owen and Pigeon townships, in the northwestern portion of the county, was named in honor of Gen. Joseph Lane, who once represented this county in the State Senate, and has a national reputation as the Mexican war veteran, and was once Governor of Oregon, and a candidate for Vice- President of the United States on the Breckenridge ticket in i860.
Its first settlers were Captain James Ashby, Stephen Hanby, William Scales, David Whittinghill, Daniel Cook, Jasper Hanby and a Mr. Powers. On account of its smallness this township is sometimes called "Little Lane."
Provenance
Text from Warrick and Its Prominent People : a History of Warrick County, Indiana, from the Time of Its Organization and Settlement, with Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent People of the Past and Present, published 1881, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.