Editing Wayne County, Indiana (section)

==History==
The first permanent European-American settlers in the area were Quakers from North Carolina. They settled about 1806 near the east fork of the Whitewater River, an area including what is today the city of Richmond. Jeptha Turner, the [[first white child]] in the county, was born here in 1806.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Biographical History of Darke County, Ohio: Compendium of National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vg3VAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA301|year=1900|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company|page=301}}</ref>

Wayne County was formed in 1811 from portions of Clark and Dearborn counties. It was named for Gen. "Mad" [[Anthony Wayne]], who was an officer during the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]. Wayne is mainly remembered for his service in the 1790s in the [[Northwest Indian War]], which included many actions in Indiana and [[Ohio]]. Randolph County was formed from the northern portion of Wayne County, effective August 1818.

The first county seat was Salisbury, Indiana, a town which no longer exists. It was later moved to [[Centerville, Indiana]] in 1818, where it remained until Richmond was designated as the seat in 1873.

During the antebellum years, Wayne County had a number of stations on the [[Underground Railroad]], a network of blacks and whites who aided refugees from slavery to reach freedom. Levi Coffin and his wife Catharine aided more than 1,000 refugees at their home in Fountain City, now designated as a [[National Historic Landmark]] and State Historic Site significant to the Ohio River National

In the 1920s, Indiana had the strongest [[Ku Klux Klan]] organization in the country, led by Grand Dragons [[D. C. Stephenson]] and [[Walter F. Bossert]]. Its members controlled the state legislature and had an ally in Governor [[Edward L. Jackson|Ed Jackson]].<ref>Indiana State Library, Ku Klux Klan Resources from the Indiana Division, {{cite web |url=http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/isl/indiana/Klan.html |title=The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana |access-date=June 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114132753/http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/isl/indiana/Klan.html |archive-date=January 14, 2009 }}, URL accessed May 30, 2006</ref> At its height, national membership during the second Klan movement reached 1.5 million, with 300,000 in Indiana.<ref name="state">{{cite web | title =Historical Sketch" in "Ku Klux Klan, Wayne County, Indiana Records, 1916–1933, Collection Guide | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | date =February 2, 2004 | url =http://www.indianahistory.org/our-collections/collection-guides/ku-klux-klan-wayne-county-indiana-records-1916.pdf | access-date =November 5, 2012}}</ref> Records show that Wayne County was home to Whitewater Klan No. 60.<ref name="state"/> Robert Lyons, of Richmond, was national chief of staff for the Klan.<ref>''Klan issue in Democrat race for president''. (May 14, 1924). ''Richmond Evening Item'', p. 1.</ref> During this period, the Klan had the most members in cities rather than rural areas; it attracted members new to cities who were unsettled by waves of immigrants from Europe and migrants from other regions of the US.