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My name is
Karen Zach and I am your
Coordinator for Montgomery County. I would really like to thank
Jeff Scism for assisting me for the last years, he has been such a tremondous
help. At this time, however, real life has to take priority for
him and I wish him well in his endeavors. The State Coordinator
is Debby Beheler and the Assistant
State Coordiantors are Sharon Craig & Katy Hestand. If you would
like to adopt a county,
please contact Debby. Montgomery County Courthouse - Pre 1905
Montgomery County, Indiana is rich with history and owns many interesting sites, including the Old Jail Museum (with one of the only workable rotating cells); the Lane Place (home of Henry S. Lane, Senator and personal friend to President Lincoln); Lew Wallace Study (author of the book, Ben Hur); DAR house (owned by the Elston family until the Dorothy Q Chapter, DAR purchased it); and Wabash College (an all-male Liberal Arts School with less than 1,000 students dating back to 1832). Townships include Brown (with towns of Browns Valley and Waveland); Clark (Ladoga); Coal Creek (New Richmond, Wingate and Elmdale); Franklin (Darlington, Shannondale); Madison (Linden and Kirkpatrick); Ripley (Alamo, Yountsville); Scott (Parkersburg, New Market); Sugar Creek (Bowers); Union (Crawfordsville; Whitesville); Walnut (New Ross, Mace); Wayne (Waynetown). Crawfordsville, the County seat, is a third-class city with a full time mayor, a seven-member council and a clerk-treasurer. The city is located just off Interstate 74, about 45 miles West of Indianapolis. |
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