Mapping and Research for Benton County, Indiana
Organized February 18, 1840, Benton County was named for Thomas Hart Benton. Benton, a United States Senator, earlier in his life had been involved in a gunfight with the man who would become the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson.
In May of 1843 a County Seat was selected and called Milroy in honor of one of the first commissioners, but Indiana already had a town of that name, so the County Seat was renamed Oxford which was first settled in 1847 by H. T. Howard. In 1871, the town of Fowler was laid out and on March 20, 1873, the Courthouse at Oxford was condemned, precipitating a battle the two towns. On July 10, 1874, the County Seat was moved to Fowler, which has held the distinction ever since
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