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==History== Boonville was founded in 1818 and named for Jesse Boon, father of [[Ratliff Boon]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Fortune|first=William|title=Warrick and Its Prominent People: A History of Warrick County, Indiana from the Time of Its Organization and Settlement|url=https://archive.org/details/warrickitspromin00fort|year=1881|publisher=Courier Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/warrickitspromin00fort/page/21 21]}}</ref> A post office has been in operation at Boonville since 1820.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Warrick | title=Warrick County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=3 October 2015}}</ref> Boonville was incorporated in 1858.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwarrick00chic|year=1885|publisher=Goodspeed|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofwarrick00chic/page/77 77]}}</ref> President [[Abraham Lincoln]] studied law in Boonville. When Abraham Lincoln and his family moved from Kentucky to present-day Spencer County in 1816, their homestead was then considered to be within Boonville's Warrick County boundaries. The future president frequently walked to Boonville to borrow books and watch local attorney John Brackenridge argue cases, thus earning Boonville the distinction of being "where Lincoln learned the law."
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