Indiana Historical Society, "Indiana's Early Black Settlements Now Documented Online," Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Herald-Times, February 27, 2015, p. D7. NOTE: The item below was abstracted from the original by Randi Richardson. In 2014, the Indiana Historical Society initiated a program to identify rural African-American settlements throughout Indiana prior to the Civil War. The findings from that program are now available online at www.indianahistory.org/EBS. According to information provided by Dona Stokes-Lucas and available through the website, the surnames of early black families in Monroe County include Baker, Cornet, Ferguson, Goins, Roberts, Stewart and Woodfork.