On West Main Street (U.S. 136) west of North High Street, on the right when traveling west.
Prominent educator and statesman Herman B. Wells was born in Jamestown, Indiana. During the Great Depression, he directed research for the Indiana Bank Commission, producing state banking reforms. In 1938, Wells was elected President of Indiana . . . — — Map (db m175678) HM
On Main Street (a.k.a.: US 136) west of High Street, on the right when traveling west.
Jamestown War Memorial
Dedicated to the
memory of all
Veterans of all Wars
Great is he who
lays down his life for
his Country in the name
of Freedom.
Erected by the people
in the year of Our Lord . . . — — Map (db m43762) WM
On South Lebanon Street (State Road 39) south of South Street (State Road 32), on the right when traveling south.
Enroute to Washington, D.C., to become 16th President of the U.S., addressed citizens of Lebanon and Boone County from rear of railroad passenger car at this place on the evening of February 11, 1861. — — Map (db m3811) HM
On Meridian Street at Main Street, on the right when traveling south on Meridian Street.
( Center - Engraved in Stone: )
In Memory of our
Boone County Veterans
who Bravely Served
in Our Wars.
Erected by The American Legion
Brown - Dolson Post 113
Lebanon, Ind.
( Left Bronze Plaque: ) . . . — — Map (db m21359) WM
On Main Street west of Meridian Street, on the right when traveling west.
In Memory
of Revolutionary Soldiers
Buried in
Boone County Indiana
Arthur Andrews 1753 - - 1834
John Ferguson 1759 - - 1839
William Gipson 1753 - - 1835
James Hill 1745 - - 1854
Henry Johns 1757 - - 1833
John Leap 1735 - - . . . — — Map (db m241648) WM
On West Main Street just east of North Lebanon Street (Indiana Route 39), on the right when traveling west.
A progressive politician and lifelong Democrat, Ralston met the challenges posed by Indiana’s transition to a more urban and industrial state. Born 1857 in Ohio, he opened a law office in 1886 in Lebanon, where he lived until elected governor in . . . — — Map (db m175673) HM
The Boone County REMC built Indiana's first electric cooperative line to the Clark Woody farm 5 miles west of this site with funds borrowed from the Rural Electrification Administration, July 22, 1935. — — Map (db m27673) HM
On State Road 47 west of Evans Road, on the left when traveling east.
Ka-wi-a-ki-un-gi Village "Place of Thorns" (Thorntown) was center of 64,000 acre Thorntown Indian Reserve. Granted to Eel River Miamis in 1818, ceded to U.S. in 1828. — — Map (db m21352) HM
Black southerners established a thriving, free community around Thorntown in Sugar Creek Township by the early 1850s. Most became farmers and some owned property, despite Indiana's constitutional prohibition of black settlement. By 1870, this . . . — — Map (db m174247) HM
On South Main (County Route 650E) at Linville Avenue, on the right when traveling north on South Main.
Albert S. White, for whom Whitestown is named, was president of the Indianapolis & Lafayette Railroad. White was a United States senator and Representative from Indiana and a leading abolitionist. He was appointed to a select federal commission by . . . — — Map (db m175788) HM
On South Main Street (County Route 650E) just south of Linville Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Commemorating the historic Lafayette & Indianapolis Railroad. On May 1st, 1865, at 1:07a.m., the Lincoln Funeral Train passed through Whitestown with mourners lining the tracks in the middle of the night to pay homage to the assassinated 16th U.S. . . . — — Map (db m175790) HM
Near South First Street at West Oak Street, on the left when traveling north.
Abraham Lincoln enroute to Washington as President Elect on February ll, 1861 addressed the Citizens of Zionsville at the Railroad Depot which stood on this site. — — Map (db m8326) HM
On Whitestown Road east of County Road 950 East, on the right when traveling east.
Located in Eagle Township in Boone County, Indiana, this
intact family farmstead includes a farmhouse and related
outbuildings, and was named a Historic District on the
National Register of Historic Places by the National Park
Service in 2011.
. . . — — Map (db m231487) HM
On Michigan Road (U.S. 421) at Valley Meadow Drive, on the left when traveling north on Michigan Road.
With proceeds from the sale of 170,580 acres of Indian land granted by the Federal Government, Indiana built its first north-south road. Surveyed 1829, passable by 1834, "completed" in 1837, its cost was $242,000.00. — — Map (db m67191) HM
On South Main Street just south of West Hawthorne Street, on the right when traveling south.
Site of
First Post Office, Lot No. 4, 1853
Postmaster: John W. Vaughn
First Dry Goods Store and Grocery Store, Lot No. 4, 1852
Wiley & Vaughn
First House erected
John Miller’s hous, Lot No. 1, 1852
and Boarding House
Zion . . . — — Map (db m175807) HM
On W. Hawthorne Street at S. 2nd Street, on the left when traveling west on W. Hawthorne Street.
Patrick H. Sullivan, 1794-1879, was the first white settler in Boone County, 1823, and built the first log cabin. In 1857, he bought this site and lived here until 1872. He served in the War of 1812. — — Map (db m67190) HM
On West Pine Street at South 1st Street, on the left when traveling west on West Pine Street.
On these grounds stood one of Zionsville’s first and finest hostelries. It was a two story frame structure, erected in Civil War days, and razed in 1938. It served as a rooming house, meeting place, and occasionally as the village social . . . — — Map (db m175824) HM
On South Main Street at East Cedar Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street.
In the beautiful Eagle Creek valley of southeastern Boone County, a new town was planned on land owned by Elijah and Mary "Polly" Cross.
Convinced by Lebanon businessman William Zion, a director of the Lafayette & Indianapolis Railroad, the . . . — — Map (db m8328) HM