Central Barren, Indiana

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Central Barren
settlement_type = Town
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = Indiana
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Harrison
subdivision_type3 = Township
subdivision_name3 = Morgan
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latd = 38
latm = 21
lats = 51
latNS = N
longd = 86
longm = 05
longs = 47
longEW = W
elevation_footnotes = GR|3
elevation_ft = 791
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postal_code = 47161
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blank_info = 18-11872GR|2
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Central Barren is an unincorporated community in Morgan Township, Harrison County, Indiana.

Geography

Central Barren is located at coor dms|38|21|51|N|86|05|47|W|city.

History

The Harrison County barrens were so named by the early settlers for the lack timber on them. They were large tracts of prairie like land, with only grass and small bushes. For the first decades of settlement, no one would live on the barrens because they were considered too far from the timber needed to build homes, fires, fences, and other necessities. The barrens were also swept by annual field fires, which would burn off most of the growth. As settlement expanded and farming grew in the early nineteenth century, settlers began to discover that because of the fires the barrens were among the most fertile farmlands in the state, and they quickly filled up with landholders. As settlement increased, the settler were able to stop and prevent the wild fires that hindered forest growth and by the start of the 20th century much of the barrens that was uninhabited began to grow up in Forrest, as it has remained until modern times. [cite web|url=http://genealogytrails.com/ind/harrison/history.html|title=Harrison Count History|author=Perrin, H.W.|accessdate=2008-10-04]

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