Page "Leavenworth, Indiana" Paragraph 36

By an act of the Indiana General Assembly in 1852, any county could change its seat if two-thirds of its residents signed a petition and put forward a fifty-dollar deposit for an architect to design a new courthouse.

Although there were not even any brick buildings in the town yet, in 1896 the town of English, located well back from the Ohio River in inland Crawford County, successfully petitioned to have the county seat moved there.