Franklin County

Government

Franklin County Government Center

1010 Franklin Ave.
Brookville, IN 47012

Offices located in the Government Center are: Assessor, Auditor, Area Planning, Commissioners, Franklin County Economic Development, Health Department, Park and Recreation, Purdue Cooperative Extension Service, Recorder, Surveyor, Treasurer, Veteran’s Services

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Franklin County Courthouse

459 Main Street
Brookville, IN 47012

Offices located in the County Courthouse are: Circuit Court Judge, Clerk, Prosecutor

Franklin County Annex Building

493 Main Street
Brookville, IN 47012

Offices located in the Annex Building are: EMA, Probation, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)

2024 County Meetings & Schedules:

 

Franklin County Property Tax Sale:

2024 Property Tax Sale: October 31st, 2024 10:00am

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Meeting ID: 856 2805 3966

Commissioners:

Commissioner’s Agenda 10.30.2024

2024 Commissioners’ Meeting Schedule

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Zoom Telephone: +1 646-558-8656

Council:

Council Agenda 10.15.2024

2024 County Council Meeting Schedule

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Zoom Telephone: +1 646 558 8656 US

 

Other Meeting Schedules: 

2024 Area Planning, Zoning and Building Meeting Schedule

2024 Franklin County Economic Development Commission Meeting Schedule

2024 Franklin County Economic ReDevelopment Commission Meeting Schedule

2024 Franklin County Health Board Meeting Schedule

Franklin County Park Board – meets Monthly every 3rd Wednesday, unless otherwise published in the newspaper

Important Notices

    Public Record Request:

    Completed forms may be submitted to the Auditor for review, in person or via email. 

    Public Request- Auditor

    Public Request- Commissioners

    2024 Holiday Closings Franklin County Government Offices

     

    Property Tax Information

    Register to Vote

    Pay or View Tax Bills

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    Highway Department

    GIS Link

    Indiana Department of Environmental Services

    Department of Natural Resources

    Brookville Lake

    Nixle Alert

    Army Corps of Engineers

    Transfer Station

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    About Franklin County

    Franklin County was formed in 1811. It was named for Benjamin Franklin.
    Some of the early settlers of this county were Primitive Baptists, they came with Elder William Tyner who came from Virginia in 1797. They organized the Little Cedar Grove Baptist Church, the first church in the Whitewater Valley. The members built a log church as early as 1805, about two or three miles southeast of Brookville, Indiana. In 1812 they built a large brick church, with balcony, and rifle ports. They held the first meeting in it on August 1, 1812. It is the oldest church building standing on its original site in Indiana. It is open as a historic site.

    One further landmark in the county is the Big Cedar Baptist Church and Burying Ground on Big Cedar Creek Road, between the road to Reily and the Oxford Pike. The original church was established in 1817, as an arm of the Little Cedar Baptist church. The plain, simple brick building, but impressive in its simplicity was built in 1838. This church, like all, or nearly all of the pioneer Baptist groups in the county was originally Primitive Baptist or Hardshell. In the 1830s modernism came upon the scene, modernism and human inventions, like Sunday Schools, Missionary Societies, and organs. Organs were particularly anathema to the Primitive Party; an organ was Arron’s golden calf.

     

    The Big Cedar congregation divided into two congregations, but the two groups arrived at an amicable settlement and both congregations continued to use the same building. The Primitives, or Hardshells, had church there on the first and third Sabbath of each month, and the Modernists or Missionary Baptists used the church on the second and fourth Sundays. Each congregation had its own wood shed. The building is now maintained in connection with the Big Cedar Cemetery Association.

    Governors James B. Ray, Noah Noble and David Wallace were known as the “Brookville Triumvirate,” in that they all had lived in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana and served consecutive terms in the office of Governor of Indiana. Noble and former governor Ray were political enemies.

    James B. Goudie Jr. Speaker of the Indiana House was from Franklin County.

    References: “Franklin County, Indiana.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 17 July 2014. Web. 18 July 2014.

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