| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — " Let There Be Light " Indiana Territory's First Newspaper |
| | Site of print shop where
Elihu Stout (1782 - 1860),
Past Grand Master of Masons
in Indiana, established
Indiana Territory's first
newspaper, summer 1804.
Originally The Indiana Gazette,
it was renamed The Western Sun
July 4, 1807. — Map (db m23277) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — "Grouseland" Built 1803 - 1804 Home of William Henry Harrison |
| |
Welcome to
"Grouseland"
Built 1803 - 1804
Home of
William Henry Harrison
Governor Indiana Territory 1800 - 1812
President of the United States 1840
Mansion owned and restored by
Francis Vigo Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution — Map (db m23255) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Ellis Mansion |
| | Abner Turner Ellis, a Borough President, Probate
Judge, and State Senator, promoted the Charter of
Ohio & Miss. R. R. (later a part of B & O) and was
its first president.
His stately home was built by John Moore about 1838.
Abraham Lincoln visited in this home during
Henry Clay's campaign in 1844. — Map (db m23286) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — 42.1966.2 — Fort Knox, First Site |
| | 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. — Map (db m23253) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Gold Star - - Honor Roll World War I Memorial |
| |
1917 - Knox County - 1919
[Row One:]
William Clayton Abraham Forrest A. Alton Noble Clarence Baker Chauncy W. Barr John Raymond Barr Andrew Jackson Bennett Lawrence W. Bouchie Rex R. Boyer Ellis P. Cannon James A. Catt George W. Clark Francis Brittian Cockerham D. Reuben Cooper Gilbert Washington Cox John J. Deischer Herbert Elden Donnoe Cecil Henry Ehlers Ralph C. Elliott David Brewer England Joseph D. Ferguson Cecil Frederick Donald . . . — Map (db m23353) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Home of Francis Vigo |
| | Colonel Vigo built an elegant residence here in 1800.
Vigo, a fur trader, helped George Rogers Clark in
capturing Fort Sackville and winning the Northwest.
Governor William Henry Harrison lived here temporarily
after first coming to Vincennes. — Map (db m23284) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Indiana Territory |
| | On July 4, 1800, the western part of the
Northwest Territory became the Indiana Territory.
It covered land that would eventually be included
in the present states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Vincennes, on the Wabash River, was established
as the seat of government.
President John Adams appointed William Henry
Harrison the first Territorial Governor. Harrison
later became the ninth President of the United States. — Map (db m23266) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Knox County (Indiana) Civil War Memorial |
| | "In Grateful remembrance of the services and sacrifices of our soldiers in the war of The Union,
we, the people of Knox County have erected this monument." — Map (db m23378) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Knox County (Indiana) Gold Star Honor Roll |
| | Spanish American War, World War I, World War II,
Korean War, Vietnam War, Desert Storm
Following the American Civil War, the United States emergence on the World scene was profound, if not inevitable.
The citizens of Knox County have been summoned on numerous occasions to answer their countrys need to fill the ranks of its armed services in conflicts throughout the world. These monuments before you are dedicated to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in the hope and belief that . . . — Map (db m23497) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Knox County Veterans Memorial Park |
| | [ Upper Left Section ]
Welcome to the Knox County Veterans Memorial Park. The monuments that stand before you are dedicated to the memory of all the military veterans from Knox County. Most prominent is the “Soldiers and Sailors Civil War monument. Completed in 1914 and restored in 2008, it is dedicated to all Knox County veterans of the Civil War. Two hundred thousand Indiana citizens joined the Union War effort. Over two thousand of these citizens came from Knox County. . . . — Map (db m23581) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — 42.2009.1 — Mary Clark |
| | 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 Amory Kinney petitioned Knox County Circuit Court to terminate her indenture because she was held illegally “as a slave.”
Side Two
Circuit Court ruled Clark “freely” entered into her indenture and had . . . — Map (db m23219) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Millstones from Emison Mills |
| | 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 stones were used at Emison Mills.
The stones are one of three stands hauled by Thomas Emison from Georgetown, Kentucky, to Knox County, Indiana. In 1804, Emison built his home and Mill on Maria Creek. . . . — Map (db m23275) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Niblack Mansion |
| | Site of first Courthouse in Indiana Territory -
1813 to about 1834. Was starting point in 1821
for survey of Indiana - Illinois boundary.
Present structure, probably built in 1850's,
became home of Hon. Wm. E. Niblack, Congressman,
Indiana Supreme Court Judge, and father of a
legislator, an Admiral, and an eminent banker. — Map (db m23278) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — 42.1995.1 — Old French House |
| | 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. Restoration 1974-1976. Located within Vincennes Historic District. — Map (db m23252) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Patriotism of Charles Gratiot |
| | Through the Patriotism of Charles Gratiot
in furnishing material aid, Colonel George Rogers Clark was enabled to keep his forces intact and
thus to recapture Fort Sackville in 1779.
Erected in grateful memory by the
Huguenot Societies of the Old Northwest Territory -
Ohio - Indiana - Illinois - Michigan - Wisconsin — Map (db m23305) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Samuel Thornton Scott ( 1777 - 1827 ) |
| | First resident Presbyterian minister in Indiana Territory, 1808. Headed the first school under the authority of the board of trustees of Vincennes University (a grammar school), 1811-1815. Served as member of board of trustees of Vincennes University, 1813-1824. — Map (db m23225) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Sarah Knox Taylor |
| | Two blocks South of this marker
on March 6, 1814, was born
Sarah Knox Taylor
Daughter of
Capt. And Mrs. Zachary Taylor
Miss Taylor married Lieut. Jefferson Davis
at Louisville, Kentucky on June 17, 1835
and died in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana,
on September 15, of the same year.
Zachary Taylor subsequently became the
Twelfth President of the United States,
and Jefferson Davis the First and only
President of the Confederate States of America. — Map (db m23263) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Site of Ferry Landing Abraham Lincoln & Family - - Moves to Illinois |
| | From this place in the year 1830
Abraham Lincoln crossed the
Wabash River to Illinois — Map (db m23258) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Site of House Occupied as Headquarters |
| | Site of house occupied as headquarters of
Colonel George Rogers Clark before capturing
Fort Sackville from the British February 25, 1779.
It was a private house facing the Fort.
Later Colonel Henry Hamilton, British Commander
of the Garrison, was housed here after the surrender
and before his removal to Williamsburg, Virginia.
This marker erected by the Indiana Daughters of the
American Revolution in 1954 is Dedicated to those
Valiant Americans who achieved this great conquest. — Map (db m23304) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — State Bank of Indiana |
| | The second State Bank, chartered in 1834,
was a successful and stable venture in
uncertain times. John Ewing of Vincennes
was a leader in its creation.
This branch was built by John Moore
by 1838, saved by the Francis Vigo Chapter,
DAR, in 1958, and restored by Indiana
in 1964, under Governor Matthew E. Welsh. — Map (db m23282) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — The Baty Place |
| | Built about 1830 by Samuel Judah, distinguished
pioneer lawyer who won the famous land grant case
for Vincennes University in the U. S. Supreme Court.
Occupied from 1848 to 1865 by Dr. John Isidore Baty,
builder of the three story addition. It is thought
to have been the first hospital in the State of
Indiana. — Map (db m23306) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — The Grand Opera House |
| | Built here, 1858 - - operated until 1919.
Julia Marlowe made her debut in this famous
theater and such great actors as Edwin Booth,
Maude Adams, Joseph Jefferson, John Drew, and
The Barrymores played to large and appreciative
audiences. — Map (db m23283) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — The Old Cathedral “French and Indian” Cemetery |
| | 1750–1846. Contains the graves (mostly unmarked) of some 4,000 inhabitants of early Vincennes, including soldiers and patriots of the American Revolution who helped Colonel George Rogers Clark to capture nearby Fort Sackville in 1779. The cemetery marks the site of the log church where the people of vincennes swore an oath of allegiance to the Republic of Virginia and the United States on July 20, 1778. During the siege of Fort Sackville (February 23–24, 1779), Clarks men took . . . — Map (db m2554) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Vincennes |
| | So named in honor of French Canadian, Fracois-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes (1700–1736).
In 1732, he built a fort here to protect the claims of France in the New World.
In 1736, Vincennes was burned at the stake by Chickasaw Indians near the present town of Fulton, Tennessee. — Map (db m2619) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — 42.2001.1 — Vincennes' Carnegie Library |
| | Side One
Designed 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. Modern addition 1976-1977; became Knox County Public Library 1978.
Side Two
Library has played major role in the community's educational and cultural development. Included in Vincennes Historic District, listed in National Register . . . — Map (db m23254) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Vincennes in the American Revolution |
| | After taking Kaskaskia on July 5, 1778, George Roges Clark, Acting under Virginia authority, sent Father Pierre Gibault, as his envoy, to Vincennes. Gibault convinced the villagers there to take an oath of loyalty to the Americans. In early August, Captain Leonard Helm arrived to take command of Fort Sackville. On December 17, British Forces under Colonel Henry Hamilton recaptured the Fort. Clark with some 160 men reached Vincennes on February 23, 1779, after an eighteen-day March through . . . — Map (db m2551) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — Vincennes University |
| | [ 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 Entrance for the Vincennes University building which stood at Fifth and Busseron streets from 1879 to 1953.
This Gateway was erected with the support of Friends, Alumni, and the Classes of 1954, 1975, and 1977 in commemoration of the 180th . . . — Map (db m23276) |
| Indiana (Knox County), Vincennes — 42.2006.1 — William Henry Harrison - & - Lewis & Clark Expedition Expedition Contact Person |
| | 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 decisions about western Indian chiefs visiting Washington.
Side Two
In 1806, on their way to the Falls of the Ohio and then Washington after the expedition, Lewis and Clark stopped in Vincennes; Lewis wrote from Vincennes on . . . — Map (db m23251) |
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