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Brown County, Indiana
Brown County is a county in south-central Indiana which in 2020 had a population of 15,475. The county seat (and only incorporated town) is Nashville. History The United States acquired the land from the Native Americans, part of which forms the southwest section of what is now Brown County, in the 1809 treaty of Fort Wayne. By the treaty of St. Mary's in 1818 considerably more territory became property of the government and this included the future Brown County area. No settler was allowed in the area until the government survey was completed in 1820. The first white man known to arrive was a German, Johann Schoonover, who lived for a short time on the creek later named for him to trade with the Native Americans, about 1820. In that same year William Elkins, the first pioneer, built a log cabin and cleared land in the area. In the 1850s Elkins was recorded as having settled in the future Van Buren Township, and the settlement that grew up around him was known as Elkinsvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Township, Brown County, Indiana
Washington Township is one of four townships in Brown County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 5,164 and it contained 2,753 housing units. The township includes the northern portion of Brown County State Park. History Washington Township was established in 1836. The Brown County Bridge No. 36 and Theodore Clement Steele House and Studio are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 97.47%) is land and (or 2.53%) is water. Axsom Branch Pond and Terrill Ridge Pond are in this township. Cities and towns * Nashville Unincorporated towns * Annandale Estates * Belmont * Gnaw Bone * Mount Liberty * Town Hill * West Overlook (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) Adjacent townships * Hamblen (northeast) * Jackson (north) * Van Buren (southeast) * Benton Township, Monroe County (northwest) * Camp Atterbury (northeast) * Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamblen Township, Brown County, Indiana
Hamblen Township is one of four townships in Brown County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 4,470 (up from 4,336 at 2010) and it contained 2,641 housing units. History Hamblen Township was named for Job Hamblen, a pioneer settler. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 98.54%) is land and (or 1.46%) is water. Unincorporated towns * Cordry Sweetwater Lakes (census-designated place) * Gatesville * Peoga (partial) * Spearsville * Sprunica, Indiana * Taggart (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) Adjacent townships * Jackson (west) * Washington (southwest) * Camp Atterbury Camp Atterbury-Muscatatuck is a federally owned military post, licensed to and operated by the Indiana National Guard, located in south-central Indiana, west of Edinburgh, Indiana and U.S. Route 31. The camp's mission is to provide full logis ... (east) * Hensley Township, Johnson County (north) * Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana
Jackson Township is one of four townships in Brown County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,938 (down from 4,002 at 2010) and it contained 2,154 housing units. History Jackson Township was named for Andrew Jackson. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 98.41%) is land and (or 1.59%) is water. Unincorporated towns * Beanblossom * Bear Wallow * Cornelius * Fruitdale * Helmsburg * Needmore * Trevlac (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) Adjacent townships * Hamblen (east) * Washington (south) * Benton Township, Monroe County (west) * Hensley Township, Johnson County (northeast) * Washington Township, Morgan County (northwest) Major highways * Indiana State Road 45 * Indiana State Road 135 State Road 135 (SR 135) in the U.S. state of Indiana is a road that connects Indianapolis with the Ohio River; for the most part it is a two-lane road except for nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Buren Township, Brown County, Indiana
Van Buren Township is one of four Township (United States), townships in Brown County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,903 and it contained 888 housing units. The township includes the southern portion of Brown County State Park. History Van Buren Township was established in 1836. It is named for Martin Van Buren, eighth President of the United States. In 1892, a church later known as Grandview Apostolic Church was built along Grandview Ridge Road, on the eastern edge of Van Buren Township. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, but after it was arsoned on July 14, 2010, it was removed from the Register. National Park S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Brown (general)
Jacob Jennings Brown (May 9, 1775 – February 24, 1828) was known for his victories as an American army officer in the War of 1812, where he reached the rank of general. His successes on the northern border during that war made him a national hero, and he was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal. Even as the US Army was reduced in size after the war, Brown retained commissioned status. In 1821, Brown was appointed Commanding General of the United States Army and held that post until his death. He initiated post-graduate education for staff and command officers, and the General Recruiting Service, to manage acquiring troops. After his death, he received a military funeral in Washington, DC, with a mile-long parade along Pennsylvania Avenue to his burial at Congressional Cemetery. Early life Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Jacob Jennings Brown was the son of Samuel and Abi (White) Brown. His middle name was in honor of his paternal grandmother, a descendant of Samuel Jenning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson County, Indiana
Jackson County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2020, the population was 46,428. The county seat is Brownstown, Indiana, Brownstown. History Jackson County was formed in 1816. It was named after General Andrew Jackson. Jackson County was the site of the first recorded train robbery of a moving train in the United States. On October 6, 1866, the Reno Gang robbed an Ohio and Mississippi Railway train, making off with over $10,000. Jackson County has the second longest 3-span covered bridge in the world; Medora Covered Bridge, The Medora Covered Bridge. After a recent project to completely refurbish the Medora Covered Bridge, the nearby town of Medora now holds an annual event at the bridge. The bridge is open for pedestrian traffic and site-seers. Another long neglected covered bridge, the Bells Ford Bridge, believed to have been the last remaining Post Truss bridge in the world, succumbed to neglect, collapsing into the White River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders, known as "presbyters". Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word ''Presbyterian'' is applied to churches that trace their roots to the Church of Scotland or to English Dissenter groups that were formed during the English Civil War, 1642 to 1651. Presbyterian theology typically emphasises the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures, and the necessity of grace through faith in Christ. Scotland ensured Presbyterian church government in the 1707 Acts of Union, which created the Kingdom of Great Britain. In fact, most Presbyterians in England have a Scottish connection. The Presbyterian denomination was also taken to North America, Australia, and New Zealand, mostly by Scots and Scots-Irish immigrants. Scotland's Presbyterian denominations hold to the Reformed theology of John Calvin and his i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baptists
Baptists are a Christian denomination, denomination within Protestant Christianity distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete Immersion baptism, immersion. Baptist churches generally subscribe to the Christian theology, doctrines of soul competency (the responsibility and accountability of every person before God in Christianity, God), ''sola fide'' (salvation by faith alone), ''sola scriptura'' (the Bible is the sole infallible authority, as the rule of faith and practice) and Congregationalist polity, congregationalist church government. Baptists generally recognize two Ordinance (Christianity), ordinances: Baptism, baptism and Eucharist, communion. Diverse from their beginning, those identifying as Baptists today may differ widely from one another in what they believe, how they worship, their attitudes toward other Christians, and their understanding of what is important in Christian discipleship. Baptist mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of The United Brethren In Christ
The Church of the United Brethren in Christ is an evangelical Christian denomination with churches in 17 countries. It is Protestant, with an episcopal structure and Arminian theology, with roots in the Mennonite and German Reformed communities of 18th-century Pennsylvania, as well as close ties to Methodism. It was organized in 1800 by Martin Boehm and Philip William Otterbein and is the first American denomination that was not transplanted from Europe. It emerged from United Brethren churches that were at first unorganized, and not all of which joined this church when it was formally organized in 1800, following a 1789 conference at the Otterbein Church (Baltimore, Maryland). In 1889, a controversy over membership in secret societies such as the Freemasons, the proper way to modify the church's constitution, and other issues split the United Brethren into majority liberal and minority conservative blocs, the latter of which was led by Bishop Milton Wright (father of the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Methodism
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christianity, Christian Christian tradition, tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's brother Charles Wesley were also significant early leaders in the movement. They were named ''Methodists'' for "the methodical way in which they carried out their Christian faith". Methodism originated as a Christian revival, revival movement within Anglicanism with roots in the Church of England in the 18th century and became a separate denomination after Wesley's death. The movement spread throughout the British Empire, the United States and beyond because of vigorous Christian mission, missionary work, and today has about 80 million adherents worldwide. Most List of Methodist denominations, Methodist denominations are members of the World Methodist Council. Wesleyan theology, which is upheld by the Methodist denominations, focuses on Sanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States United States declaration of war on the United Kingdom, declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812. Although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, the war did not officially end until the peace treaty was ratified by the 13th United States Congress, United States Congress on 17 February 1815. AngloAmerican tensions stemmed from long-standing differences over territorial expansion in North America and British support for Tecumseh's confederacy, which resisted U.S. colonial settlement in the Old Northwest. In 1807, these tensions escalated after the Royal Navy began enforcing Orders in Council (1807), tighter restrictions on American trade with First French Empire, France and Impressment, impressed sailors who were originally British subjects, even those who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Sackett's Harbor
The Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor, or simply the Battle of Sacket's Harbor, took place on 29 May 1813, during the War of 1812. A British force was transported across Lake Ontario and attempted to capture the town, which was the principal dockyard and base for the American naval squadron on the lake. Twelve warships were built here. The British were repulsed by American regulars, militia, marines and sailors, although the attack resulted in the destruction of naval stores and self-inflicted damage to American warships. Background In the early weeks of the War, the British had seized control of the Great Lakes. In September 1812 U.S. Navy Captain Isaac Chauncey was ordered to assume command of naval forces on Lakes Ontario and Erie with the directive to "...use every exertion to obtain control of them this fall." Within three weeks he had directed and brought 149 ships' carpenters, 700 Seamen and Marines, and some 100 cannon, along with a good quantity of muskets and other sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
