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In 1814 Posey County was named for Indiana Territorial Governor Thomas Posey. The county seat of Posey is Mt. Vernon, the largest town with a population of 7478 (2000 census). Posey County is largely a farming county but has an industrial past and large industry today located mainly in the area near the Ohio River.

Census Online was founded in 1996 by Mark Reed, then a 19 year old Electrical Engineering junior at the University of Michigan.   The foundation of the site was Mark's 402-page transcription of the 1850 census for Greene County, Tennessee.  In October 1996, Mark published a list of links to the other 25 similar census transcriptions that existed online.  Prior to that time, no centralized directory existed for locating these records as they appeared on various personal web sites scattered across all corners of the internet.  Over the

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Warrick County Indiana was established from Knox County in 1813. At that time including what is today Posey County (1814), Vanderburgh County (1818), Warrick, Spencer County (1818) and Perry County (1818) and a bit of Gibson. The county seat of Warrick is the city of Boonville with a population of about 4,000. Important among the history of Boonville is the town motto. Where Lincoln learned the law. I hope you enjoy your visit to the Warrick page and come back as often as you like.

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