English Crawford County Democrat (Newspaper) - March 9, 1916, English, Indiana 37. No. 25 English; march 9,19i6 Results YEARS AGO former contains the j were Peter Frakes and William Van The first civil action tried the formed by The former established that of John Samuels against Board Finds a Heavy Geography in May Be Delayed Several FOR GOVERNOR COX FOR Favor C. T. Brown for Spears Tadlock for J. M. Brown for for Byrd for to the of the new prim erable delay be unavoidable in determining unofficial for a few the column is for column is Run column is Liberty fourth column is cinct in we reproduce the entire j which will doubtless be of interest to ali our It will be noticed that the only newspaper was the Crawford County then published at the writer of the article may have missed his guess on the population of Fredonia and Leavenworth at that the story otherwise seems to be Following is the county is situated in the southern portion of the upon the Ohio It lies between on the east and Perry and c the and is joined on the north Jury ai Washington March deposit of History and ' twenty-five feet in and feet reaching from the top of a great stalagmite hill to the ceiling The surface is fluted and divided by three which give it the appearance of being jointed like a Around the sides of the hill are numbers of various sizes and with their an Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of dated 1876, we copy the following article concerning Crawford As only a few copies of of the are to be found in on Big Blue near eastern boundary of the The | The records show that on the 4th of Stroud in 1808, was 1818, Joseph Bohall obtained a creased by the accession of John license of marriage to Miss Sarah and Jonathan and during and they were married by same Malachi Monk settled on | tice Thomas Newbury on the 10th day Whisky near Big During these years settlers came into i We five Cox Prosecutor Auditor C. M. Baker 1 W. Lank ford 11 lu McFarland C. A. Myler John Spears i O. Tadlock ' County Treasurer J. M. Brown E. J. iU J. F. Jones Unofficial in the county tor Adair 456; the Rt ticket J. Roscoe i Stewart leads J. Dale Hammond for George N. for County of the Second and race between William Fesler and James J. Smith fur Treasurer By in Joint Mardi 1. 7 in J 11 zc ii uc of by the i; by ic at Joint bern highly attained and in through a more Circle books find through the opportunity for a ci wc highly the ot S. A. of the institutes and his to them a That have the presence of patrons who attended the institutes and that we them to attend next That we citizens of Marengo for the courteous treatment received them during the i- That much aier the of we favor the of s during the next George on March ihu will next Monday and a f the jury will ill A number of new cases have Ix en added to the docket since last as Boyd John Strother vs. Boyd Julin 000 Walls vs. W. i Bills and A. Jackson et George W. S. et al vs. P. E. Anderson ct to i Levi Brooks Viola i Walter B. vs. Richard Utter et note B. Slaughton vs. J. and j W. William J. and account Embry Box Alton FOR State Larnon State v s R. Martha Southern Sarah vs. Clora B. Ava Shaw et al vs. S. E. of the estate of Carrie N. vs. Fannie Hopkins vs. Blanche Boyd vs. John two John W. Whisky Willie Whisky Cleo V. H. W. - John M. R. R. Everest John B. Sam J. B. Martin Charles N. Henry Robert Whisky W. R. P. Whisky P. H. Whisky vs. against File precinct committeemen elected March 1st was the initial day in March 7ih are required by diana for filing mortgage exemptions to meet at the county seat on office of the county the March 11th at one o'clock for requiring that the formality be purpose of electing a county chaired between 1 and May 1. secretary and must be made each year in order county chairman of the Democratic to be effective and the party the law makes it my duty to against whose the mortgage designate the place of meeting and exists to be exempt from paying taxes i designate the band room at | on property to the extent of j the opera house at as the The superficial area of the county is about three hundred and four square surface of the as a general is rather broken and a long chain of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet in present themselves above the Ohio and Blue From the extending toward the knob range south and there is considerable stretch of comparatively level The soil on the river and creek bottom very producing excellent crops of vegetables and Most of the products are held for home The uplands and hilly portions of the county are well adapted to and increased attention is being given to The county as a is best adapted to stock it being and an abundance of for hay and being easily the Ohio which bounds the county on the Big Blue its tributary in a considerable portion of the eastern part of the of which it is the and Little Blue rising in the northern flows in a direction into the The former of these rivers has several among which are Whisky Run and Dry the principal branches of the Little Blue River are Stinking and Clear Creek and Otter county is well supplied with the principal varieties being sugar locust and very good quality of building stone is found and quarried in large quantities along the bluffs of the Ohio and Blue where it forms an available and sandstone is plenty in the southern and western parts of the A very fine grit abounds in various from grindstones and whetstones are are numerous caves throughout the the most important of which is the noted Wyandotte This cave is situated on the eastern border of the ten miles west of the county seat of Harrison The road by which it is reached is a good after crossing Blue follows alongside of the limestone which skirts the i and by a little excavation here i and room for a road between it j and the This cave is on the land j of Messrs. H. A. and H. W. ' and is leased by H. W. who keeps a hotel there for the accommodation of geological position of Wyandotte Cave is precisely to that of the Mammoth Cave in It verses the beds of the subcarboniferous I which contain sink 1 large pits and I caverns in numerous places over its entire The Wyandotte Cave above the and in its course conforms to the general direction of the i. northeast and Its elevation is about one hundred and fifty feet above the bed of Blue It is said to be twenty-two miles in if all the branches which look like clusters of cypress Stalactites adorn the and one very large one is called the from the ringing sound it emits when On the right of the of the stands the of formed by a peculiar Behind in front of the chair is a gallery richly adorned with the calcite and when this immense capable of seating several thousand is lighted it is impossible to conceive of a grander or more imposing The other contains said to be one hundred and feet on the top of which stands three great one of which is very white and has the appearance of being and is called Grand is seventy feet above the top of the or two hundred and forty-five feet above the main floor of the The width of the hall is three hundred In speaking of these Professor in his paper on the fauna of the Wyandotte published in the American is no room in the Mammoth Cave equal to these the springs in this cave are blind crawfish and eyeless or Little Wyandotte close to the is entered by descending about twenty feet through a small hole on an Indian This cave is not over two hundred yards in and yet it is not if by the in the beauty and charming arrangement of its stalactites a mile north of the Wyandotte is the in early was and one of the lixiviating troughs is still to be It has but one which is of gigantic and reaches upward into an immense may be well to for the benefit of those desiring to visit the Wyandotte that it is thirty miles distant from New from which place there is a daily coach to twenty where hacks are to be at all for the remaining ten miles of the From there are packets which leave every evening at 5 o'clock and reach Leavenworth at about 11 p. m. the same The cave is about four miles from the Louisville packets leave Leavenworth between 6 and 8 o'clock arriving at Louisville by in this a bore has been started for salt It was impeded at a distance of 207 feet below the surface by gravel falling in from a crevice which was struck at the depth of seventy-eight miles from on the West Fork of Little Blue there is a remarkable sulphur It was in 1864, for At the depth of 275 feet in the subcarboniferous a stream of sulphur water was which rushed up the well with tremendous carrying with it the tools a stop to further A wooden forty-five feet was placed in the mouth of the bore and the water over the top of but the hydrostatic pressure was so great that it burst the bottom of the and the water was forced through the earth for many feet It is the common opinion that the water will if properly at least seventy surface of the ground and every object over which it is coated with a white deposit of This well is estimated to spout at least 15,000 barrels of water per A. R. Curry has provided for at this noted and it has become quite a place of 1806, a colony of twenty-two families settled in Washington and Floyd it I or G. 1! are but them came Thomas was various routes taken by visitors are the first settler in Crawford motel nt a of nineteen The i He settled on Clear in north and few narrow i eastern part of the not CUV Orange county which several 1 I ( Joyful but for the most i company had and among school No. 6, closed the galleries are broad and high ' a brother and an uncle of Mr. of the West Baden Springs Hotel March 1st with Miss Olive Rudolph and frequently expand into great | During summer and fall of 1806, the rotunda of that place as At the noon hour a The ornamentations are j Mr. Stroud was by E E. number I Wilham McKee and the the Indiana apple show will be held outside of Indianapolis this Lee W. which to hold the Joseph ful dinner was spread by the patrons ' A Burton of and a large crowd was present to enjoy and beauty those seen in the Mammoth the latter of whom settled m and a successful the In the afternoon a program Two of the the the northwest of the was rendered by the school children and and the f of enjoyed the day very * * ske and added to the more rapidly than for quite a number of years the year 1818 or 1819, quite a number of wealthy and influential settlers made Crawford county their Among these were the Captain General the and the Up to 1818 water power had not been in the for the purpose of grinding the grists of the In that Zebulon and Seth Leavenworth erected a grist and at a place subsequently known as on Big Blue Soon there were several mills built in different parts of the A Mr. Leggatt built one a few miles from Fredonia in 1819. schools there were among the pioneers were kept in private till 1818, when a few in different parts of the built houses for church and school first religious society was organized by the Methodists at in 1818. The Baptists erected the first church in this in 1824. the time of the early wild game was abundant throughout the southern part of Scarcity of or market was the least privation the had to The frontiersman could go out almost anytime and kill an elk or a before for his morning It is said by some of the early that one killed the last elk known to have been shot in Crawford in 1824. first town laid out lin the county was called Mount only one house remains to mark the site of the E. Morgan one of the first He was a native of and spent his early days in In 1804. he settled in In 1806, he removed and settled in the extreme northeast section of Crawford where he remained as a farmer till 1823. In that year he was elected County and moved to He held the office of clerk In 18 he removed to where he died an honored in sixty-ninth Lucretia is still and the oldest surviving resident of Crawford She was the first woman who settled within its She is now eighty-eight years of Leavenworth was a native of born in 1792. When he first came to in 1816, he remained at Jeffersonville for about two and in the spring of 1818 moved to Crawford where he and his brother purchased four hundred acres of public land and laid out the town of In 1810 he was elected of the and continued several years in From 1831 to 1833, he served as one of the County and in 1833-4 was sent as Representative to the State He was a man of excellent as a business man enterprising and and his death a great loss to the John S. B. came from with his father in 1819 and settled in Washington He came to this county in 1836, since which time he has been one of the leading physicians of the W. who was elected sheriff of the county in 1846, came from Pennsylvania and settled at Fredonia in 1820. As and deputy he served his county about sixteen county was cut off from Harrison county in the spring of 1818. It was organized by a board ot commissioners appointed by the assembly during the session of 1817-18. Governor Jennings appointed the following William clerk and Daniel sheriff and Cornelius Hall and John county The governor also appointed Hon. Davis presiding and Henry Green and James associate of circuit court held its in hI which time R. W. Henry P. Coburn and William were admitted to practice as Mr. was appointed prosecuting of 1818. county commissioners appointed Brinner county and William commissioners appointed to organize the county selected Mount Sterling as the seat of It was the only village then laid out in the But soon a location on the river was and Fredonia and being laid came into competition for the The latter outbid the former and secured the county seat in 1820 or 1821. Since that date it has remained at present court house at Leavenworth was erected in 1846. It it a substantial stone The clerk and office and a jury room are situated on the first the court and petit jury room on the second The building cost about An additional brick containing the auditor and treasurer's was erected in 1867, or about that at a cost of or county jail was erected in IS 13 and including jailer's about It comprises one cell and a general hallway around the poor farm is situated five miles northeast of and contains 160 The asylum building has been newly erected and is large and The average number of of inmates does not exceed at two insane officers for 1875-6. Thaddeus P. Clark F. M. M. Samuel G. John B. Isaac Alexander John P. superintendent of Alexander P. James Merrill and J. R. county Daniel T. judge of the circuit Edward R. prosecuting the county is a small town of twelve or fifteen hundred situated on the Ohio one snile below the mouth of Big Blue The site is comparatively level with the high of the Ohio overhanging the It contains some handsome among which may be mentioned Mrs. Julia John N. Joel A. Mrs. Margaret Malachi M. John P. W. T. and Dr. E. R. was laid out in 1S18, by Zebulon Leavenworth and his The first mentioned and William M. Miller built log cabins on the site in the spring of 1818. In the spring of 1819, Zebulon Leavenworth and John L. Smith opened the first stores in the The Methodists organized n religious society in 1820, and built a church edifice in 1825. Simultaneously with the founding of the first religious a Mr. Rains opened a The first school house being erected that in 1820, established a ferry across the Ohio river at this town was incorporated in 1873, with the following trustees and Dr. E. R. R. H. Sands and Alexander R. E. John R. and William present board Dr. E. R. S. A. Jesse M. Thomas principal merchants of the town are Messrs. McCullum and A. John N. 4. R. James M. John J. R. M. W. M. John R. Jacob Rosenfield and Josiah has one one carding one hub and spoke three cooper three blacksmith and wagon two Presbyterian anil and a good graded The building is of newly erected and cost some is one newspaper at The Crawford County It is weekly and has a good is situated on the Ohio river a few miles below It has 8 population of about eight and is u The town was laid out by Gen eral Thom in it has a good graded school and two Among the first settlers were Posey and Henry Down foreman of grand jury West at the above brought in a Mt. indictment against John Sibbs and Pilot Sulphur Well John Scaggs for an which was the first criminal case tried in the Wickliffe are small villages and poet offices in Crawford
