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Adams
County, Indiana
Genealogy
and History
Volunteers
Dedicated to Free Genealogy
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Welcome to Adams County, Indiana Genealogy
Trails!
Our goal is to help you
track your ancestors through time by transcribing
genealogical and historical data
and placing it online for the free use of all
researchers.
This
County Website
is available for adoption.
If you have a love for
history, a desire to help others, and basic
web-authoring skills, consider joining us!
Get the details on our Volunteer Page.
[A desire to
transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic
webpage is required.]
We
regret that we are unable to
perform personal research.
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Adams County,
Indiana
TOWNS
Blue Creek - Ceylon - Curryville - French -
Hartford - Linn Grove - Jefferson - Kirkland
- Magley
Monroe - Peterson - Preble - Root -Salem - Union -
Wabash - Washington
County Seat: Decatur
Year Organized: 1836
Square Miles: 339.97
Adams County
This county was named in honor of
President Adams. The surface is level, being
beautifully undulating in some quarters. There are
no barren lands, and but little wet prairie. There
is a considerable portion of bottom lands, but the
greater portion of the county is upland, heavily
timbered. In some of the wet prairies of this
county we find the water-shed from which the
waters run both toward the St. Lawrence and the
Mississippi. In these swampy sections are
definable traces of beaver dams. The soil is mixed
clay and marl, and is said to improve with
continued cultivation. Timber was originally in
abundance, consisting of oak, hickory, buckeye,
ash, beech, elm, linn, walnut, sycamore, poplar,
and cottonwood. The principal water courses are
the Wabash and St. Mary's rivers. In this county
they are about equal in size, their average
breadth being about one hundred and fifty feet.
The St. Mary's was formerly navigated by flat
boats, but is now obstructed with mill dams. This
county has made good progress in agriculture,
commerce and education. Decatur is the county
seat, and is but twenty-one miles from Fort
Wayne. It is a flourishing city, with excellent
incorporated schools, substantial buildings, well
kept streets, and thriving commercial interests,
with good railroad facilities.
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