Editing Huntington County, Indiana (section)

==History==
[[File:Huntington, Indiana - Aerial (45574994405).jpg|thumb|left|250px|The city of [[Huntington, Indiana|Huntington]] from the southwest]]
Huntington County was organized from the previously unorganized [[Indiana Territory]] and lands gained by the [[Treaty of St. Mary's (1818)#Aftermath|Adams New Purchase of 1818]]. The county's creation was authorized by an act of the [[Indiana General Assembly|Indiana state legislature]] dated February&nbsp;2, 1832. Organization of the county's governing structure began on May&nbsp;5, 1834.<ref name="Walsworth Publishing Co">{{cite book|url=https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=upJuAAAAMAAJ&rdid=book-upJuAAAAMAAJ&rdot=1|title=History of Huntington County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to The Present . . |publisher=Walsworth Publishing Co.|date=January 1887|page=321}}</ref> The first non–[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] settlers in what has since become Huntington County were a group of 29 farm families from [[Connecticut]] who arrived in the early 1830s. These were "Yankee" settlers, meaning they were descended from the English [[Puritans]] who settled [[New England]] in the colonial era. These settlers were able to get to what has since become Huntington County due to the construction of the [[Wabash and Erie Canal]], which was a shipping canal that connected the [[Great Lakes]] to the [[Ohio River]] by way of a manmade waterway. When they arrived in what has since become Huntington County, the settlers from Connecticut found dense virgin forest and wild prairie. The original 29 "Yankee" families from Connecticut laid out roads; built a post office; established post routes; and built a town hall, a church, and a schoolhouse from the trees in the area that they cut down.<ref name="Walsworth Publishing Co"/> The county was named for [[Samuel Huntington (statesman)|Samuel Huntington]], who signed the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] and the Articles of Confederation.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|publisher=Govt. Print. Off.|author=Gannett, Henry|year=1905|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n162 163]}}</ref> He was also [[president of the Continental Congress]] under the [[Articles of Confederation]].