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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Neighborhood Park
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
( Individual Plaques - Left to Right )
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 m34971) 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
Side One
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
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
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
( Front )
Dedicated to the recipients of this
Nation’s oldest military decoration
“The Purple Heart”
Left side: The Purple Heart Insignia
Right side:
My stone is red for the blood they shed. . . . — — Map (db m34294) WM
Main marker
Collection of
Donald Jay Stein
Lafayette, Indiana
Dedication marker
To the City of Layayette/West Lafayette and more specifically, to the people of "the South Side" with whom I have worked diligently over the . . . — — Map (db m8676) 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
( Upper Plaque: )
United * Spanish * War * Veterans
* 1898 * 1902 *
Philippine Islands
Cuba
Porto Rico
U. S. A.
( Lower Plaque: )
In memory of our comrades who on land and sea defended
the Nation’s Honor in . . . — — Map (db m34824) 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
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
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
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)
