Mapping and Research for Johnson County, Indiana
Formally organized May 5, 1822, Johnson County was named for Judge John
Johnson who was an early Indiana State Supreme Court Judge.
The county seat of Franklin was laid out in 1822 and the first settlers
were Samuel Herriott, George King, John Smiley and W.G. Springer.
By 1834 Franklin was the site of Franklin College, the fifth oldest in
the state and the first Hoosier college to admit women in the year of
1848. Its founders were pioneer Baptists.
In 1849 a "plank" road was underway to the bluffs of the White River and
was projected to extend to Mooresville.
Governors Paul McNutt and Roger Branigin were born in Franklin.
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