Children First Center

The Arc Noble County Foundations is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting individuals with disabilities in Northeast Indiana, helping them maximize their abilities to achieve success at work, at home, and within their communities. With a mission to foster meaningful partnerships and enhance the quality of life for all, the organization has been serving Noble County for over 54 years. Accredited by CARF International, The Arc Noble County Foundations demonstrates a commitment to quality and transparency in its services. By focusing on community employment and inclusion, the organization empowers individuals to become valued members of their local communities. Generated from the website

To provide for economic and physical revitalization in the Summit City Entrepreneur & Enterprise District. To influence location, investment and employment decisions of new and existing businesses in the District.

A Few Facts About Adams County: Adams County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Blue Creek, French, Hartford, Jefferson, Kirkland, Monroe, Preble, Root, St. Marys, Union, Wabash and Washington. Adams County was organized March 1, 1836. A large tract of land lying between Allen and Randolph counties had been previously called Adams County, however, no organization had been effected. Decatur is the County Seat. Samuel Johnson offered as an inducement to have the county seat located on his land, the sum of $3, 100, four church lots, half an acre for a public square, one acre for a seminary and two acres for a cemetery. He further agreed to pay the expenses of the locating commissioners, and furnish a house to hold court in until suitable buildings could be erected. The county commissioners promptly accepted the offer "and proceeded to the aforesaid town site, and marked a white oak tree with blazes on four sides, on each of which they individually inscribed their names." Decatur was probably named in honor of Commodore Stephen Decatur and in 1849 it had seventy houses ( three of which were brick, twenty-one frame and the remainder of logs ) with a population of about 400.