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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFEO_home-of-francis-vigo_Vincennes-IN.html
Colonel Vigo built an elegant residence here in 1800.Vigo, a fur trader, helped George Rogers Clark incapturing Fort Sackville and winning the Northwest.Governor William Henry Harrison lived here temporarilyafter first coming to Vincennes.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFEN_the-grand-opera-house_Vincennes-IN.html
Built here, 1858 - - operated until 1919.Julia Marlowe made her debut in this famoustheater and such great actors as Edwin Booth,Maude Adams, Joseph Jefferson, John Drew, andThe Barrymores played to large and appreciativeaudiences.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFEM_state-bank-of-indiana_Vincennes-IN.html
The second State Bank, chartered in 1834,was a successful and stable venture inuncertain times. John Ewing of Vincenneswas a leader in its creation. This branch was built by John Moore by 1838, saved by the Francis Vigo Chapter,DAR, in 1958, and r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFEI_niblack-mansion_Vincennes-IN.html
Site of first Courthouse in Indiana Territory -1813 to about 1834. Was starting point in 1821for survey of Indiana - Illinois boundary. Present structure, probably built in 1850's,became home of Hon. Wm. E. Niblack, Congressman,Indiana Supreme Cou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFEH_let-there-be-light_Vincennes-IN.html
Site of print shop whereElihu Stout (1782 - 1860),Past Grand Master of Masonsin Indiana, establishedIndiana Territory's firstnewspaper, summer 1804.Originally The Indiana Gazette,it was renamed The Western SunJuly 4, 1807.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFEG_vincennes-university_Vincennes-IN.html
Marker Plaque Vincennes University was founded in 1801 as Jefferson Academy by William Henry Harrison, Governor of the Indiana Territory and Chartered by the Indiana Territorial Legislature in 1806. The columns of this gateway served as the Ent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFEF_millstones-from-emison-mills_Vincennes-IN.html
The larger millstone is made from French Buhr cut into wedge-shaped pieces and bound together by a heavy metal loop. A "stand" is made of two similar stones, the "upper stone" rotating on the "nether stone" to grind wheat and corn. Both of these s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFE7_indiana-territory_Vincennes-IN.html
On July 4, 1800, the western part of theNorthwest Territory became the Indiana Territory.It covered land that would eventually be includedin the present states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Vincennes, on the Wabash Ri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFE4_sarah-knox-taylor_Vincennes-IN.html
Two blocks South of this marker on March 6, 1814, was bornSarah Knox TaylorDaughter ofCapt. And Mrs. Zachary Taylor Miss Taylor married Lieut. Jefferson Davisat Louisville, Kentucky on June 17, 1835and died in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana,o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFE2_lincoln-trail-memorial_Vincennes-IN.html
In the late winter of 1830 a few weeks after his 21st birthday Abraham Lincoln passed this way with his father's family entering the State of Illinois for the first time.
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