Jennings Township (Owen County, Indiana)

Owen County

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The Jennings Township is one of twelve townships in Owen County in the central south-west of the U.S. state of Indiana. At the 2010 census in Jennings Township lived 846 people on an area of 52 km ².

Geography

The Jennings Township is located in the north of Owen County. It is bordered to the west by Jackson Township, on the south by morning Township and Montgomery Township, on the east by Taylor Township and the north by the Putnam County. In Jennings Township, there is no independent municipalities, major settlement is the hamlet of Cataract.

Jennings is drained by Mill Creek, in the township are also the Cataract Falls.

History

Before the arrival of Europeans, the area of ​​the present townships of Indian tribes of the Miami, Shawnee and Potawatomi inhabited.

The first European settler was Isaac Teal, who built a mill on the lower Cataract Falls in 1820. 1841 acquired Theodore Jennings, a relative of Jonathan Jennings, the first Governor of Indiana, the area. He built a sawmill and a flour mill, a general store, a blacksmith shop and other facilities. In addition to the facilities at Mill Creek maple syrup was harvested in Jennings Township and used grubbed-up areas for grazing animals. After the closure of the sawmill and the mills, the economic importance declined.

In Jennings Township, the Cataract Covered Bridge, a covered bridge, built in 1876, registered since 2005 in the National Register of Historic Places is located.