Editing Tipton County, Indiana (section)

==History==
Prior to the arrival of non-indigenous settlers in the 1830s, the area of Tipton County was inhabited by the [[Miami tribe|Miami]] and [[Delaware tribe|Delaware]] tribes.{{sfn|Goodspeed|1883|pp=1–2}} Tipton County was formed in 1844. It was named for [[John Tipton]], a soldier of the [[Battle of Tippecanoe]] in 1811. Tipton served as [[United States Senator]] for Indiana from 1831 until shortly before his death in 1839.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Goodrich|first1=De Witt Clinton|last2=Tuttle|first2=Charles Richard|publisher=R. S. Peale & Co.|year=1875|location=Indianapolis|title=An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana|url=https://archive.org/details/anillustratedhi02tuttgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/anillustratedhi02tuttgoog/page/n586 574]}}</ref> The first [[murder]] in the county occurred in October 1851. Harvey Moon killed Andrew Hornbeck with a knife. Moon was tried in Indianapolis, as a jury could not be empaneled in Tipton County. He was sentenced to five years in prison. He escaped prison and was not recaptured.{{sfn|Pershing|1914|p=248}}</ref>

===Courthouse===
The first [[Tipton County Courthouse (Tipton, Indiana)|Tipton County Courthouse]] was a two-story frame building. It was planned in early 1845 and was completed by the end of the year at a cost of about $1200.{{#tag:ref|A $1,200 capital expense in 1845 would be roughly equivalent to $602,000 in 2010.<ref name="Williamson">Williamson, Samuel H. (April 2010).  ''Seven Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a U.S. Dollar Amount, 1774 to present''. [http://www.measuringworth.com MeasuringWorth].  Calculations made using Nominal GDP Per Capita, a measure of capital intensivity, using "the 'average' per-person output of the economy in the prices of the current year." This is a measure of the amount of capital and volume of labor required to reproduce the work over varying production methods, but assuming that money represents a proportion of the economy.</ref>|group="n"}} It was expanded the following year. By 1858 a new courthouse was needed, and the brick building was completed by 1859 at a cost of approximately $15,000.{{#tag:ref|A $15,000 capital expense in 1858 would be roughly equivalent to $5,200,000 in 2010.<ref name="Williamson"/>|group="n"}}{{sfn|Goodspeed|1883|pp=18–20}} The present courthouse was designed by Adolph Sherrer. He had taken over the [[Indiana Statehouse]] project when architect [[Edwin May (architect)|Edwin May]] died in 1880; five years after the completion of that project in 1888, Scherrer began work on the Tipton building, which was built of sandstone in a Romanesque style with a clock tower of 206 feet elevation including the flagstaff on top. It was built 1893-94 by Pierce and Morgan of Indianapolis at a cost of $170,988.{{#tag:ref|A $171,000 capital expense in 1894 would be roughly equivalent to $39,000,000 in 2010.<ref name="Williamson"/>|group="n"}} It is one of several Romanesque courthouses dating from the 1890s that are still in use.<ref>{{cite book|last=Counts|first=Will|author2=Jon Dilts|title=The 92 Magnificent Indiana Courthouses|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=1991|location=Bloomington IN|isbn=978-0-253-33638-5|pages=166–7}}</ref>