sentences:  Most of the county is rural; land use is farms, pasture and unincorporated woodland.The county seat and only incorporated town is Connersville, which holds a majority of the county's population.The county was historically significant early in the 19th century as a conduit for settlement of the Northwest Territory, and again in the early 20th century as an automotive manufacturing center, but has been in economic decline since the 1960s and is now among the poorest counties in the state.