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The first commissioners filed a report dated February 15, 1817, naming Petersburg as the seat of government; [7] the city was laid out and platted that same year. The city was named for Peter Brenton, an original owner of the town site. [7]: 337 A post office was put into service at Petersburg in 1823. [8]
Marion County is located in the U.S. state of Indiana.The 2020 United States census reported a population of 977,203, [1] making it the 54th-most populous county in the U.S., the most populous county in the state, and the main population center of the 11-county Indianapolis–Carmel–Greenwood MSA in central Indiana.
[1] [4] The community was named for Francis Marion, an army officer during the American Revolutionary War, [4] A post office opened at Marion in 1823. [5] The post office was renamed Noah Post Office in September 1836, and was discontinued in 1902. [6] Marion once contained a high school which closed in about 1908. [7]
The city of Decatur is the largest and is also the county seat, and is in the northern part of the county where U.S. Route 27 and U.S. Route 33 intersect with the east–west U.S. Route 224. U.S. Route 27 continues south through the town of Monroe , near the center of the county, and then on through Berne and Geneva .
Today Sebastopol is one of some 20 surviving buildings that give Seguin the largest concentration of early 19th century structures in the U.S. [3] As a result of its unusual concrete construction, Sebastopol House was included in the Historic American Buildings Survey (H.A.B.S.) in 1936, made a Registered Texas Historical Landmark in 1964, and ...
The fire department building moved onto land donated by an area individual in the 1960s. [3] A post office was established at Poe in 1856, [5] and remained in operation until it was discontinued by 1917. The Fort Wayne, Indiana post office serves Poe as of 1997. [3]
Location Deaths Injuries Total Description 2000 ; February 29, 2000: Flint, Michigan: 1 0 1: Killing of Kayla Rolland: At Buell Elementary School, a 6-year-old boy fatally shot 6-year-old girl classmate Kayla Rolland. To date, the boy is the youngest documented fatal school shooter. [1] May 26, 2000: Lake Worth, Florida: 1 0 1
Harrison is an unincorporated community in southeastern Fayette Township, Vigo County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [ 2 ] It is part of the Terre Haute metropolitan area .