. Centennial history and handbook of Indiana : the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time . ls its then impor-tance. This territory has, indeed, claims to distinc-tion. There, it may be said, Indiana practicallyhad her beginnings. There lay the first strip ofland that marked, in Indiana, the oncoming tideof the white mans progress westward—the firstoverlap from Ohio, which grew, cession by ces-sion, west and north. There sprang up some ofour most important early centers of population—Lawrenceburg, Brookville, Co
. Centennial history and handbook of Indiana : the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time . ls its then impor-tance. This territory has, indeed, claims to distinc-tion. There, it may be said, Indiana practicallyhad her beginnings. There lay the first strip ofland that marked, in Indiana, the oncoming tideof the white mans progress westward—the firstoverlap from Ohio, which grew, cession by ces-sion, west and north. There sprang up some ofour most important early centers of population—Lawrenceburg, Brookville, Connersville, Rich-mond and others; there resided at one time oranother a remarkable number of men who havemade their impress upon the States history oron the world at large, and thence came wavesof migration that have spread over the immigration has supplied an important ele-ment of the population in not a few , for example, in her first days wasso nearly made up of people from Whitewaterand Kentucky that a political division, it is said,sprang up along the sectional line, and these twoclasses were arrayed against each other in the. View of Oldenburg, Franklin County, showing the Monastery, and the Convent and Academy of the Immaculate Conception. 250 CENTENNIAL HISTORY AND HANDBOOK OF INDIANA first local campaign, with Whitewater after that they continued to come from thecities mentioned above and intervening localities,and the number at the capital to-day who lookback to the Whitewater as their old home is sur-prisingly large. Madison, also, in her growing,hopeful days drew good blood from this center;and over the State generally and beyond the bor-ders the same is true. Of the men of mark who have hailed from theWhitewater, Brookville and Franklin countyalone lay claim to perhaps half a hundred, themost notable of whom I find named and classi-fied as follows in the columns of a Brookvillepaper: Governors.—James B. Ray, Noah
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