John W. Love 1850-1880 was born in Napoleon, the son of William and Mary Love. After moving to Indianapolis, he studied in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and became a prominent portrait and landscape artist. Upon returning to Indianapolis, John . . . — — Map (db m242123) HM
Miss Barbara Fox came to Napoleon in 1852 as a child and lived next door to the Railroad House Hotel. She received United States patents in 1892 and 1895 for a fire escape. On October 12, 1895 she invited people to test it and they were lowered . . . — — Map (db m229269) HM
This trail was cut about 1808, by John Berry (1777-1835). It began at Napoleon, ran west to Flat Rock and Blue Rivers, and thence northward into central Indiana. The Trace branched off the Brownstown-Brookville Road. — — Map (db m45838) HM
Napoleon, the site of many political conventions, in 1851 hosted the Free Soil Convention represented by abolitionist
Johnson Watts, joined by James H. Cravens and J. Cady, called for repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. This inn, owned . . . — — Map (db m262102) HM
