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Randolph County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana . As of 2010, the population was 26,171. The county seat is Winchester .
Modoc from the air, looking northeast. The Indiana General Assembly authorized the formation of Randolph County from Wayne County in January 1818 to take effect in August 1818. The county was almost certainly named for Randolph County, North Carolina , where the area's first settlers came from. That county was named for Peyton Randolph , the first President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation . Between 1820 and 1824, the county's territory extended to the Michigan boundary; consequently, the plat for the town of Fort Wayne is recorded in Randolph County's Recorder's Office. Randolph County's population grew rapidly in the early years of the nineteenth century. It was also known as a progressive community. As a home to a large number of members of the Society of Friends , education and abolitionism became important movements. The county was home to three famous settlements of free African-Americans. The most famous, the Greenville Settlement, in Greensfork Township, was the site of Union Literary Institute, one of the first racially-integrated schools in the United States.
