Story is an unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, Brown County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Brown County, Indiana, was created in 1836 from portions of Monroe, Delaware, Jackson and Bartholomew counties. The land had been acquired from the Native American tribes in two parts based on a treaty line that ran southeast to northwest. Kno…Story is an unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, Brown County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Brown County, Indiana, was created in 1836 from portions of Monroe, Delaware, Jackson and Bartholomew counties. The land had been acquired from the Native American tribes in two parts based on a treaty line that ran southeast to northwest. Known as the "Ten O’Clock Treaty Line" and later referred to as the “Indian Boundary Line,” the land southwest of the line was obtained in 1809 in the Treaty of Fort Wayne known as “Harrison’s Purchase". The land northeast of the line was obtained in 1818 in the Treaty of St. Mary’s, known as the “New Purchase.” The area encompassing the village of Story was opened to European settlement on September 30, 1809. The so-called “Ten O’clock Treaty” opened three million acres to settlement, the boundary being a line running from Raccoon Creek on the Wabash River near Montezuma to Seymour, marked by a shadow cast at 10:00 a.m. each September 30. That line passed through the heart of what would become the village of Story. Today, that line is denoted by the Story Monument in the center of Story’s village green.
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