Fountain County Heritage
Fountain County was created December 30th 1825 with the Act of the Legislature of the State of Indiana. The Act read:
"An Act for the formation of a new county out of the
counties of Montgomery and Wabash.
Sec. I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Indiana that from and after the first day of April, next, all tht tract
of country included within the consititute a new county, to be known and designated
by the name of the County of Fountain, to-wit: Beginning where the line dividing
townships 17 and 18 crosses the channel of the
Wabash river; thence east to the line
west of the second principle meridian;
thence north to where said line strikes
thence running down twith the meanderlings
of said river to the place of beginning."
It has been said that Fountain county was named so because of the numersous fountains of pure water which flow along the hiss and terraces of the Wabash River and its tributaries. Another legend has it that the county was named for a Major Fountaine, who lived in the county at one time.
Fountain County Courthouse
Fountain County Historical Society Inc.
C/O 724 South Layton Station Rd.
Veedersburg, IN 47987
Phone: 765/294-2037
President: Claudine Yerkes
