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Robert Johnson is the man generally claimed to have been the man who established the town now known as Warsaw, and who originally named it Fredericksburg. You can read about many of the events in his life in a short memoir by his brother, Cave Johnson, here. Like most very early settlers, he was a land speculator. On December 19, 1795 he received a grant of 8,115 acres in Fayette County on the Ohio River (Fayette then covered what is now Gallatin and a lot of other counties). Glencoe was in the tract, and Johnson had a mill on Eagle Creek, on property that would later be known as the Castleman farm. To this property Johnson bought an additional 400 acres from John Hawkins Craig, on December 27, 1796, which included Ohio River frontage. Johnson built a home on this new tract - a two story brick house with one story wings. It was on what is now High School Court in Warsaw. Johnson originally named his new settlement on the Ohio River "Great Landing." He additionally had land holdings, and would buried at, a little place just outside of Georgetown, called "Great Crossing," ( map) which is at a crossing of the North Elkhorn. On September 11, 1799, the Gallatin County Court authorized a survey from Steele's Bottom, to intersect the road from Johnson's Glencoe mill, and go on to Franklin County. You likely know it as Johnson Road.
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| This is a very short piece on Johnson, given the amount of material out there. You can find much more detail in the writings of Dr. Carl Bogardus - try the vertical files in the Gallatin Co Free Public Library if you want to know more. | |