USDA Forest Service, Lick Creek African American Settlement, 8/2012, available online at http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5303625.pdf. Note the item below was abbreviated from the original as shown by the ellipsis. The first African Americans (consider negro and colored as spelling variants) settlers came to Orange County, Indiana, before 1820. Led by Jonathan Lindley, eleven families traveled with a group of sympathetic Quakers in search of a new land which forbade slavery. Jonathan Lindley settled in Orange County in 1811, five years before the county was established and Indiana became a state. By 1860, 260 blacks lived in Orange County. Almost a third of them lived in Southeast Township in the Lick Creek African American Settlement, at that time a racially integrated community.