Center Township was created in 1872 from the northern part of
Jackson Township; the northern part of Center was later split off to create
Union Township in 1889. The first white settler in the township was George Michaels in 1827, followed the next year by John Douglass, Matthew Bunnell and Noah Bunnell. More arrived in 1829, including the three Pence brothers who donated the land upon which the city of Frankfort was built. As the geographic and business center of the county, numerous railroads where laid through the township and included the
Monon, the
Vandalia, the
Toledo, St. Louis and Western, the
Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern, and the Kokomo. ==Geography==