Daviess County, Indiana

USA / Indiana / Montgomery /
 county, draw only border
www.daviesscounty.net/

Daviess County was formed in 1817 out of Sullivan Knox and Orange Counties. It was named for Maj. Joseph Hamilton Daviess, U.S. District Attorney for Kentucky, killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. Daviess County, IN is one of two counties of the same name in the Evansville Area, the other being Daviess County, KY (Owensboro, Ky). The main way of telling one form the other is that Daviess County, KY is pronounced ("Davis") while Daviess County, IN is pronounced ("Daveez").

Nearly 650 Old Order Amish families make their homes in Daviess County, Indiana, mainly in central Daviess County, around Montgomery and Odon.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daviess_County,_Indiana
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Coordinates:   38°41'50"N   87°5'29"W

Comments

  • Number 7 in my list of counties to be traced out. Anybody living in these counties that wishes to put in information about them is more than welcome to. I only know more about Southwestern Indiana than the rest of the state, so I am only limited to what information I do know about them.
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