History of Hancock County, Indian

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: portion of Center township, four miles north of Greenfield; thence nearly south through Center and Brandywine townships, entering Shelby county six miles south of the county seat. Buck Creek, a small, sluggish stream, rises in Vernon township, about a mile and a half south-west of Fortville, runs...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: portion of Center township, four miles north of Greenfield; thence nearly south through Center and Brandywine townships, entering Shelby county six miles south of the county seat. Buck Creek, a small, sluggish stream, rises in Vernon township, about a mile and a half south-west of Fortville, runs south-west through Buck-creek township, across the north-west corner of Sugar-creek township, entering Marion county one mile south of the south-west corner of Buck-creek township. Nameless Creek is a small stream. Rising in the central portion of Jackson township, it runs south-west in Jackson, and empties into Blue River on the B. P. Butler farm. Six Mile Creek rises in Henry county, flows south through Jackson, past Charlottesville, across the corner of Rush county, entering Blue-river township at its central eastern border; thence south-west, emptying into Blue river on the Wm. Cook farm. Little Brandywine Creek rises near the boundary line between Center and Jackson townships, runs south-west, nnd empties into Brandywine two miles south by southeast of Greenfield. Little Sugar Creek, a small, sluggish stream, rises in the north-west part of Center township, and running south by south-west, empties into Sugar Creek. Flat Fork of Lick Creek rises in the south-east part of Vernon township, runs north by north-west, enters Hamilton county one mile west of Fortville, and empties into Lick Creek. These small streams have all been ditched and cleared out near their heads. Swamp Creek is a sui generis small stream, taking its rise in Madison county. It runs nearly south, crossing Lick Creek in Madison county and Sugar-creek in Hancock county; crossing the National road at the Robert H. Ross farm, and finally losing itself in Brandywine Creek. This stream presents the g...