Jennings Township (Owen County, Indiana)
| Jennings Township | |
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 General store in Cataract |
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| Jennings Township in Owen County | |
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| Basic data | |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Indiana |
| County : | Owen County |
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 26 ′ N , 86 ° 49 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) |
| Residents : | 839 (status: 2000) |
| Population density : | 16.6 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 51.97 km 2 (approx. 20 mi 2 ) of which 50.61 km 2 (approx. 20 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 229 m |
| Postcodes : | 46120, 47460, 47868 |
| FIPS : | 18-38430 |
| GNIS ID : | 0453508 |
The Jennings Township is one of twelve townships in Owen County of middle-Southwest US -amerikanischen state of Indiana . At the 2010 census, 846 people lived in Jennings Township in an area of 52 km².
geography
Jennings Township is in the north of Owen County. It is bordered by Jackson Township to the west, Morgen Township and Montgomery Township to the south, Taylor Township to the east, and Putnam County to the north . There are no independent communities in Jennings Township; the most important settlement is the hamlet of Cataract .
Mill Creek flows through Jennings, and the Cataract Falls are also located in the township .
history
Before the arrival of the Europeans, the region of today's township was inhabited by Indian tribes of the Miami , Shawnee and Potawatomi .
The first European settler was Isaac Teal, who built a mill on the lower Cataract Falls around 1820. In 1841, Theodore Jennings, a relative of Jonathan Jennings , Indiana's first governor, acquired the area. He built a sawmill and flour mill, general store, blacksmith shop and other facilities. In addition to the plants on Mill Creek, maple syrup was harvested in Jennings Township and cleared areas were used as pastures. After the sawmill and the mills were closed, their economic importance declined.
The Jennings Township is home to the Cataract Covered Bridge , a covered bridge built in 1876 that has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2005 .