Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vernon is the only town in Indiana that continues to govern itself under a 19th-century charter. (Photo courtesy the Jennings ...

But Vernon never did. In a state where every other municipality now operates under uniform state statute, Vernon remains Indiana’s lone charter town, governed by an incorporation act approved on Jan.

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — When the General Assembly incorporated southeast Indiana’s Town of Vernon in 1851, it granted the community sweeping authority to govern itself. Over the next century-and ...