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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFE0_site-of-ferry-landing_Vincennes-IN.html
From this place in the year 1830Abraham Lincoln crossed theWabash River to Illinois
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDX_grouseland_Vincennes-IN.html
Welcome to"Grouseland"Built 1803 - 1804Home ofWilliam Henry HarrisonGovernor Indiana Territory 1800 - 1812President of the United States 1840
Mansion owned and restored byFrancis Vigo ChapterDaughters of the American Revolution
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDW_vincennes-carnegie-library_Vincennes-IN.html
Side OneDesigned by local architect John B. Bayard in Collegiate Gothic Style; built 1917-1918. Dedicated 1919, with 13, 518 books and 4, 207 registered borrowers, as Vincennes Public Library; Public Library located in City Hall since 1889. Moder…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDV_fort-knox-first-site_Vincennes-IN.html
Built in 1787 by Major John F. Hamtramck under command of General Josiah Harmar. United States Army's most western outpost for several years. Named for General Henry Knox, first Secretary of War.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDU_old-french-house_Vincennes-IN.html
Home of French fur trader Michel Brouillet (1774-1838). French Creole cottage (built circa 1806) is typical of "posts-on-sill" construction technique used by French settlers in Mississippi Valley during eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDT_william-henry-harrison-lewis-clark-expedition_Vincennes-IN.html
Side One Harrison became Governor of Indiana Territory 1800; he administered government of District of Louisiana 1804-1805. In Vincennes, he served as a contact during the expedition; surviving records document his support and his involvement in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFD1_mary-clark_Vincennes-IN.html
Side One: Born circa 1801, Clark, a slave, was purchased in Kentucky in 1814 by B. J. Harrison, brought to Vincennes in 1815, and indentured as his servant. In 1816, G.W. Johnston purchased her indenture for 20 years. In 1821, Clark and attorney …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFCZ_the-buffalo-trace_Petersburg-IN.html
Crossed White River at a nearby ford. It was made by migrating buffalo herds. The trace ran from Vincennes to Louisville and was the only through trail in pioneer days.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFCX_wabash-and-erie-canal_Petersburg-IN.html
Site of depot for canal which passed through town at foot of Main Street. Operations through Petersburg ceased 1860. Constructed 1832-1853, canal was nation's longest, connecting Lake Erie at Toledo with Ohio River at Evansville, through Fort Wayn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFCW_baltimore-ohio-southwestern-railroad-depot_Washington-IN.html
Mission Revival Style depot, built 1906, restored 1990; part of Washington Commercial Historic District. Link to city's trading and industrial history, with substantial railroad machine shops and car works. Indiana stop of former President Dwight …