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)
Franklin County Reuse store officially reopens Tuesday September 20, 2022. Store hours will be Tuesday and Thursday 9am to 3pm. They will not be open on Saturdays for the remainder of 2022.
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About Franklin County
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.
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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