Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-12-21
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MQTSh0|| County 0nd Plymouth.
A Brief Historical Sketch of Marshall
County, Indiana. Its Organiza-
ton, Natural Resources,
Development, Etc.
An Historical sketch of Plymouth--lt-
Organization. Geographical Location.
Railroad Facilities. Magnetic Flow
ing Well-. Past. Present and
Possibilities for the Future.

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ed history, no matter how necessary it
NAV be for the information of those who
come after those records have been
made, is generally considered dry
reading. Certain important events
have occurred at a certain time, and
have been entered of record in a certain
book, at a certain page, or pages, and
may be found in certain office, where
they are filed and kept for inspection
and information for the public, who
have paid for them, and whose records
they are.
Yet, what small proportion of the
public or people there is who ever get di-
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would know where or how To ascertain
the important facts in those records,
made by our fathers and our grand
general understanding or knowledge
of.
For these reasons we have determined
to reproduce inthe form of a holiday issue
many of the more important facts con
nected with the organization of this
county and the now city of Plymouth,
their natural resources and advantages
to the present time, and some specu-
lative suggestions as to the future when
their advantages and privileges are UNI
derstOod and acted upon.
ITS ORGANIZATION.
Marshall county was organized under
or iii accordance with an act of the leg
islature of the state of Indiana, passed
February eth, 1895. In said act Hiram
Wheeler and Griffin Treadway, of La
Porte county, Samuel c. sample and
Peter Johnson of It. Joseph county and
John Rorer of Elkhart county, were ap-
pointed commissioners for the purpose
of fixing the permanent seat 81 justice
for the SAID county Of Marshall. agreea-
Die to the provisions of AN act to es-
tablish seats of justice in new counties.
approved Jan. 18th, 1871. The com
missioners above named or u majority
of them We're to convene at the house OF
Grove lomroy. three miles west of
Plymouth, on Che Lai'Orte road. ON the
second Monday OF June 1896. or as soon
thereafter as u majority Of them should
agree upon. and in accordance with the
requirements of said act, Peter John
son. Griffin Treadway and samuel C.
sample three Of the commissioners ap-
pointed by the aforesaid act of the leg
iSlatue met at the house of the said
Grove rOmeroy on the 18th day Of June
1896. The above named commission
ers to establish the seat of justice filed
their report with the temporary board
of county commissioners, Of Marshall
county. which was composed of Robert
Blair, Abraham Johnson and Charles
Ousterhout, July Goth, 1886.
The act of February It'll 1886. gaveto
Marshall county, comprised of the same
territory then as now, 'all the rights of
independent counties in the state from
and after April the LIST, 1896. The act
reading as follows:
I'm ACT TO ORGANIZE THE COUNTY
OF MARSHALL. APPROVED FEB. 4TH.
1896.
SEC. |. BE it enacted by the gener-
al assembly of the state of Indiana:
That from and after the LIST day of
April next. the county of Marshall shall
enjoy all the rights and jurisdiction
which belong to separate counties
So, the county was really organized by
the Legislature, and the act took effect
April LIST, 1896, but the county seat. or
the "seat of justice" was not established
until July Goth, 1886.
IT'S BOUNDARY.
Marshall county is bounded on the
north by st. Joseph, on the east by Elk
hart and kosciusko, on the south by
Fulton, and Koscusko, and on the west
by stark and st. Joseph counties. 1t is
twenty-one miles square by the govern
ment surveys which over-run consid-
erably, but it is generally called twenty
one miles square but it is really slight
ly iii excess of that.
GEOGRAPHICAL.
The geological report of the state
for the years of lSS5-S6, pays this com
pliment to our county:
Marshall county is one of the most
interesting of all the counties of India
ma, especially as regards its Typography,
its surface geology, and its agricultural
Importance. 1t is extremely well stu
ated with regard to all the facilities for
production and shipment, having excel
lent varied soil, good public roads, SUI
periOr drainage, and railroads running
to almost every point of the compass.
THE RAILROADS.
The following named railroads run
through the county: The Lake Erie and
Western, running from indianapolis to
Michigan City, the Terre Haute and