Lafayette.
Named for America’s friend from France. Founded by William Digby in May 1825. Head of navigation on Wabash River. Important Port of Wabash Canal 1843 - 1859. Well-known station in “underground Railroad.” Home of . . . — — Map (db m34763) HM
1902 - Built at Second and South Streets by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad, nicknamed “Big Four” and the lake Erie & Western Railroad; served as a train depot until 1975
1979 - Reopened by City of . . . — — Map (db m34768) HM
Buddell Sleeper (1806-1888) and his wife, Elizabeth Welch (1802-1889), arrived in Tippecanoe County in the Fall of 1835. The Sleepers would become prominent members of the Farmers Institute Quaker Community and the Greenfield Monthly Meeting of . . . — — Map (db m175614) HM
May 1861 saw this high 30-acre bluff over-looking Lafayette quickly become an induction center for enlistees in the Civil War until its end in 1865. Ample water, good drainage and access to the railroad at its west end served the purpose well, . . . — — Map (db m8697) HM
Area platted as Bartholomew and Davis Addition, 1829. Neighborhood grew rapidly during citywide expanson after canal (1843) and railroad (1853) arrived. Most structures, of many architectural styles, built 1870 - 1910. Named after Centennial School, . . . — — Map (db m8696) HM
Commander of the 10th Indiana Infantry and highest ranked Tippecanoe County officer killed during the Civil War. He died on September 19, 1863 at the Battle of Chickamauga in Tennessee. Colonel Carroll was one of 34,624 casualties of that . . . — — Map (db m314752) HM
The first white man known to have resided in the
Tippecanoe Township was a Frenchman named
William Burnett who establish a trading post between
the mouth of Burnett's creek and the Tippecanoe River.
Burnett's daughter married John Davis who . . . — — Map (db m36235) HM
First master of Perry Lodge No. 37-1843
Grand master of Masons in Indiana 1847-1851
President-Indiana State Medical Ass'n.-1854
Original stone erected by Gertrude his daughter as a tribute of affection. Replaced by F. A. M. Nos. 88 - 123 - . . . — — Map (db m314754) HM
Earl & Hatcher Block
Has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Built 1865 — — Map (db m34904) HM
In the spring of 1854 young Eli Lilly began a five year apprenticeship with Henry Lawrence, proprietor of the Good Samaritan Drug Store, at this location. While in Lafayette, Eli became a second sergeant in "The Lafayette Guards". He returned to his . . . — — Map (db m314667) HM
This District is named for U.S. Patent Commissioner, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, who lived in the neighborhood and was instrumental in the settling of the Wabash Valley area. As Lafayette grew, the neighborhood was a popular choice for all classes . . . — — Map (db m35227) HM
Near this point ten Lafayette Freemasons, operating as traveling Sierra Nevada Lodge, embarked March 27, 1849 on six-months' journey by boat to Mexico, then overland to Pacific, then by ship to California gold fields. — — Map (db m34816) HM
Driving a Duesenberg, George Souders
handily won the 1927 Indy 500 as a
rookie. Souders finished third at the
500 in 1928 but retired soon after
following a crash in a Detroit race. He
is among a handful of Americans to compete in the Italian . . . — — Map (db m266437) HM
Helen Mar Jackson came to Lafayette from southern Michigan to teach school in 1860. In 1863 she married attorney John D. Gougar (1836-1924). In 1897 they built this home, known as Castle Cottage, and resided here until their deaths.
A . . . — — Map (db m314663) HM
Gougar advocated for women's
suffrage and prohibition as a lawyer,
writer, and lecturer, and directly
challenged injustices through the
legal system. Born in 1843, she moved
to Lafayette by 1860, and to house
here, 1897. Began newspaper . . . — — Map (db m250682) HM
Neighborhood in late-Victorian "landscape garden suburb" style, designed by Cincinnati firm, Earnshaw and Punshon. Platted 1891, 1893. Houses are of a wide variety of architectural styles. Important for this suburban development was 1892 spur on . . . — — Map (db m34222) HM
Neighborhood in late-Victorian "landscape garden suburb" style, designed by Cincinnati firm, Earnshaw and Punshon. Platted 1891, 1893. Houses are of a wide variety of architectural styles. Important for this suburban development was 1892 spur on . . . — — Map (db m69388) HM
Highland Park Neighborhood
Has Been Placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by The United States
Department of the Interior
Listed March 14, 1996 — — Map (db m34914) HM
Here lie Confederate prisoners who died in Lafayette, Indiana after surrendering at Fort Donelson, Tennessee 1862. Union dead include those killed in a train wreck near Stockwell, Indiana 1864.
Rest in peace.
In memory of Confederate . . . — — Map (db m314750) WM
SPC Luke P. Frist
209th Quartermaster Co., Lafayette, IN
United States Army Reserve
January 5, 2004, Ar Ramadi, Iraq
Marine Cpl. Bryan Scott Wilson
2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment
1st . . . — — Map (db m255688) WM
Erected on this site in 1845 by John Purdue (October 31, 1802 - September 12, 1876) The John Purdue Block was a collection of 12 stores, each 22 feet wide, occupying the complete block between Columbia and South streets. At the time, it was the . . . — — Map (db m34826) HM
Named July 12, 1997
to honor John T. Myers
U.S. Representative, 7th District, IN
1966-1996.
For dedicated service to the Greater Lafayette community. Friend, advocate, champion of constituents. With special thanks for advancing . . . — — Map (db m34869) HM
"We are united in one feeling for the Union. We believe in...every star and stripe of the glorious flag." On these tracks Abraham Lincoln stopped in Lafayette and spoke those Unifying words on Feb 11, 1861 on his "Whistle Stop Tour" en route to . . . — — Map (db m92078) HM
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Lafayette platted 1825. This area was first known as Prospect Hill. Wealthy families built country estates here 1850's - 1860's. Streetcar lines of 1880's transformed Hill into popular suburb. Area declined after World War II. . . . — — Map (db m8694) HM
Platted in 1873, this district was Lafayette's first planned residential area which conformed to geographic contours. It was developed by James J. Perrin, Margaret Cason Perrin, Edward Asher, and Consider Tinkler. Listed in National Register of . . . — — Map (db m8695) HM
Father of three sons who also served in the Union Army.
Pvt. Charles Felix Jr - buried in Marion Ind. Veterans Home Cemetery. 10th Ind. Inf. - 1861 & 16th Ind. Battery - 1862 - 1865.
Pvt. Ranzo Felix - buried in Greenbush Cemetery. 16th . . . — — Map (db m314753) HM
Collection of
Donald Jay Stein
Lafayette, Indiana
To the City of Lafayette/West Lafayette and more specifically, to the people of "the South Side" with whom I have worked diligently over the past . . . — — Map (db m284760) HM
Richardville Reserve was named for Jean-Baptiste (John B.) Richardville (1761-1841), whose Miami name was Peshewa (Wild Cat), Miami Principal Chief from 1815-1841. Richardville was a metis of French and Miami ancestry. His father, Joseph Drouet de . . . — — Map (db m315991) HM
In 1844-1846 immigrants - mostly Irish - built Saints Mary and Martha Church on this corner. It was the first Catholic church in Lafayette. Many of the parishioners had come to the area to dig the Wabash & Erie Canal. The $10,000 brick building . . . — — Map (db m251013) HM
The Tippecanoe County Courthouse
Neoclassic Architecture
on the
National Register of Historic Places
Construction Started 1881
Completed 1884 — — Map (db m34764) HM
(South Face, Center Panel)
Civil War • Spanish American War • Mexican War • World War I • World War II.
This memorial is dedicated to all those from
Tippecanoe County who in the Armed Service of all wars made the
Supreme . . . — — Map (db m34343) WM
United * Spanish * War * Veterans
* 1898 * 1902 *
Philippine Islands
Cuba
Porto Rico
U. S. A.
In memory of our comrades who on land and sea defended
the Nation’s Honor in the War with . . . — — Map (db m253788) WM
Between Toledo, Ohio, and Evansville, Indiana.
And which, through Lafayette
paralleled the Wabash River,
crossing Main Street at
the East end of the bridge. — — Map (db m34215) HM
In 1838 some 800 Potawatomi Indians, being forcibly removed from Marshall County to Kansas, camped along this road, the LaGrange-Logansport State Road. On this “trail of death”, scores of Native Americans suffered and died. The mother of Chief . . . — — Map (db m33812) HM
Over 850 Potawatomi Indians camped here on the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Sept. 13, 1838, on the forced removal from Indiana to Kansas. There were 106 sick so two doctors were called in, Drs. Ritchie & son. Sanford Cox later wrote . . . — — Map (db m33811) HM
Potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkins and greens,
sumptuous sweet-corn, all sorts of beans,
cantaloupe, honeydew, name any melon,
planted then ripened, soon ready for sellin’.
What sort of hard-workin’ son-of-gun
could get things to market, get . . . — — Map (db m34229) HM
William Henry Harrison, first governor of Indiana territory, 1800-1812. General, American forces, battle of Tippecanoe, November 7 1811. 9th President of the United States. — — Map (db m200296)
The land on which the pioneer town of Wyandotte grew was part of a reserve granted to the children of Miami Principal Chief Jean-Baptiste Richardville in 1818. The first white families in the township settled near the Indian village north of this . . . — — Map (db m315989) HM
