Herrick, J. H.; John Paul Jones; Weston A. Goodspeed; R. H. Herrick, Counties of La Grange and Noble, Indiana: historical and biographical, Chicago:Â F. A. Battey & Co., 1882, 951 pgs.
Township Histories.
Chapter V.
by John Paul Jones
Town of La Grange -- First Plat -- Early Residents -- The County Seat Question -- Appearance of the Village Thirty-eight Years Ago -- Former Mercantile Establishments -- Gradual Growth and Development -- Industrial Enterprises -- Secret Societies -- Present Business Occupations -- Outline Sketch of Religious and Educational Interests -- Cemetery.
The location of the town of La Grange, in the geographical center of the county, would seem to indicate that its projectors were men of shrewd forethought, who had in view the possibility of it becoming, at no distant ay, the most eligible point for the location of the county seat, as in the early days