| Indiana (Warren County), Pine Village — 86.2002.1 — Pine Village Football | | | [Marker text, side 1]:
Local team was important Indiana precursor to modern professional football organizations. Clinton Beckett introduced football to Pine Village High School 1898. Town and high school teams played on bottomland, northwest of here, starting local football tradition. Town team, the Villagers, managed by C. J. Shackleton and later by Clair Rhode.
[Marker text, side 2]:
Team became "professional" 1915, claiming state and regional Championships. Jim Thorpe, . . . — Map (db m8559) | | Indiana (Warren County), State Line City — Abraham Lincoln | | | Abraham Lincoln made his only speech in Warren County, Indiana near this spot Feb. 11, 1861. “Gentlemen of Indiana: I am happy to meet you on this occasion, and enter again the state of my early life, and almost of maturity. I am under many obligations to you for your kind reception, and to Indiana for the aid she rendered our cause which, I think, a just one. Gentlemen, I shall address you at greater length at Indianapolis, but not much greater. Again gentlemen, I thank you for your warm hearted reception.” — Map (db m5490) | | Indiana (Warren County), Williamsport — The Trail of Death | | | In 1838 a band of over 800 Potawatomi Indians were forcibly removed from their homeland in Northern Indiana and marched to Eastern Kansas. Many died along the trail during the two month trek. This mournful caravan traveled this road on September 14, 1838 and camped near Williamsport. — Map (db m9307) | | Indiana (Warren County), Williamsport — Williamsport - Warren County — Courthouse | | | Williamsport, Warren County Seat, was home, 1879 - 1896, of James Frank Hanly, Governor of Indiana,
1905 - 1909. The courthouse, built 1907, was designed by J. W. Royer, Urbana, Illinois. Warren County was established 1827. — Map (db m7951) |
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