Chesterfield is a small town nestled in a convenient location off I-69 in East Central Indiana, close to many other communities and attractions.Chesterfield is home to Camp Chesterfield.  Historic Camp Chesterfield is a place of peace and serenity.  Your gateway to the enlightenment of Spiritualism.

The first settler was William Dilts in 1821.  He settled on the east side of Mill Creek for about three years.  The place he had selected was entered out from under him by a man named Joshua Baxter.  This act upset Dilts, and he moved up the way into Delaware County.  A few years later he came back and entered 160 acres just east of where he had first settled.  Here he built a log house which he opened as the first hotel in that part of the county.  Next he built a brick house, the first of its kind in the township near the log house.

Not long after Dilts had settled in 1821, Frederick Bronnenberg came through on his way to Illinois with his ox team.  One of the oxen gave out near the Dilts place, and Bronnenberg asked for help. Dilts told him that the roads west were worse than the ones he had traveled so far, so the family decided to stay.  One of their children, who was ill at the time, died.  The Bronnenberg moved into an abandoned cabin of an Indian trader named McChester.

In 1822, Amasa Makepeace and his family came to settle in Chesterfield.  These three men, Dilts, Bronnenberg, and Makepeace helped to shape the destiny of the Union Township and the whole county with their industriousness.

Population in July 2008: 2,755