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Richmond Richmond is located in Wayne County (of which it is the county seat) east of Indianapolis along Interstate 70 near the Indiana/Ohio border. Richmond is one of the older cities in Indiana. North Carolina Quakers started settling in Richmond in 1806 drawn to the area by its cheap and fertile land and its prohibition on slavery. Richmond was settled in 1806 by North Carolina Quakers and is one of the older cities in Indiana. Quakers (called Friends) were drawn to the Northwest Territory by its cheap, fertile land and its prohibition on slavery. By 1809, nearly three hundred Friends, almost all from North and South Carolina had settled here. They formed the Whitewater Monthly Meeting of Friends (now Richmond's First Friends Meeting), the oldest Quaker congregation in the state of Indiana. Quakers founded not only Richmond but other communities, such as Economy, Dublin, Milton and Fountain City. Quaker meeting houses became part of the landscape all over the county. The population estimate for July 1, 1998 was 37,091, a decrease of 1,614 since 1990.
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