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Access Online Court Records Apply for a Marriage License Calculate my Property Taxes File my homestead deduction Get Election Information Pay Fines & Court Costs Pay my Property Taxes Register to Vote Request a Traffic Ticket Deferral Welcome to Indiana County Information County Facts Public Meetings Greetings, The Commissioners, in conjunction with the Council and the elected officials of , would like to welcome you to our new website. has spent the last nine months creating a new, user-friendly, mobile-friendly, interactive website that is focused solely on the convenience of the taxpayers and vendors who do business with . As we move forward, the site will continue to grow and adapt and we will continue to add content that will make doing business with much easier and, hopefully, much more enjoyable. You will find information on each elected official and their office. Contact information for each office is easily accessible and clearly displayed on their page. Our hope is that, as you use the site, you will find access to your local government much more convenient than it has ever been before. The site contains most of the information you will need to effectively conduct your business with the county. Some very exciting features have been added. First, you will find the interactive calendar, which, as we move into the future, will hopefully contain meeting dates for county meetings as well as your local city and town meetings. We hope to make the calendar available to many of the local entities with whom the county does business and include important dates and times of government-related activities throughout the county. Second, we are excited that we will shortly be adding online payment functionality to allow you to make payments from home for many of the transactions you do with . Third, we will be making available the ability to apply for and digitally create many of the forms you will need to apply for permitting. So, again, we welcome you to this new-and-improved website, and we hope you will spend some time with our site and find out what it can do for you. Thank you The Commissioners A Few Facts About – A History Location and Size occupies a central position in the great State of Indiana. It is bounded on the north by Clinton County, on the east by Hamilton County, on the west by Montgomery County, and on the south by Marion and Hendricks Counties. It is 24 miles from east to west and 17.5 miles from north to south, and contains about 268,800 acres. is divided into 12 civil townships as follows: Center, Clinton, Eagle, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Marion, Perry, Sugar Creek, Union, Washington, and Worth. Name and Organization was named in honor of Daniel Boone, the noted Kentucky hunter and pioneer. The county was organized on April 1, 1830, when there were only 622 citizens in the county. Lebanon was chosen as the name of the county seat. Early Existence was first settled by its first white inhabitants in or around 1822. Its central position, excellent soil, water power, and other advantages, natural and improved, ranked it as one of the first counties of the state. A remnant of the Miami Indians occupied the northwest corner of the county by stipulation from the US Government until 1828. Here they had lived, hunted, and traded for years, but about the year 1834 their fires went out and their songs were heard no more. This reserve or territory embraced all of Sugar Creek Township, two-thirds of Washington Township, nearly one-half of Jefferson Township, and five sections of Center Township, or about 64,000 acres. The first pioneers in 1822 - 1824 found unbroken wilderness, no roads, no mills, deep-tangled brush and vines, and a good portion of the land covered with water. The water flows in almost every direction in , and it is the dividing summit of White River and the Wabash River. The principal streams in the county are Sugar Creek, Eel River, Big and Little Eagle Creeks, Prairie Creek, Brown’s Wonder, Mud Creek, Raccoon, Fishback, Mounts Run, and Spring Branch. Nearly all of these at one time afforded propelling power for mills and machinery, etc. for the citizens. Communities Lebanon – The County Seat Three of the five new commissioners appointed by the Governor met about the first of May 1831 to locate the center (within two miles) of the county for the purpose of establishing the county seat. After prospecting various sites near the center of the county, they finally came upon the tract of land where Lebanon now sits. This tract of land was owned by two prominent Indianapolis men, General James Perry Drake and Colonel George L. Kinnard. Their military titles were derived from their service in the Indiana Militia. Both men, in addition to being progressive community builders, were shrewd developers and speculators. Drake and Kinnard learned early of the planned organization of and purchased three tracts of land near the geographic center of the new county. The two men knew that this location would be the most likely site for the new county seat and, therefore, would develop as a town. According to Federal Land Office records in Crawfordsville, Drake and Kinnard applied for deeds to the land on March 1, 1830. It is believed that the purchase price was $1.25 per acre, which was the going rate for property in the area. The honor of naming the town fell on Adam French, one of the new commissioners. Because a cluster of tall trees reminded him of the the tall cedars of Lebanon” in the Bible and of sacred history, French shouted to a group of onlookers, the name of this town shall be Lebanon”. Prior to Lebanon becoming the County Seat, the first courts were held in Jamestown, which remained the seat of justice until the move to Lebanon. An act of the State Legislature on January 21, 1832, provided for the commissioners to relocate the County Seat to Lebanon. In addition, to ensure that their property would be selected as the county seat, Drake and Kinnard donated every third lot, the town square, and forty acres of additional land to the county. They also furnished at no cost the bricks and shingles for the original courthouse. The County Commissioners readily agreed to this bargain. The original plat of Lebanon consisted of over 19 blocks surrounding the public square. In 1832, Abner H. Longley was the first settler to locate in Lebanon and he erected a one-bedroom log cabin on Lot No. 1 block No. 16, which is located at the southwest corner of West Main St. and South Lebanon St. By 1849, Lebanon contained 80 dwelling houses – 4 of brick and 76 framed, with a population of 500....