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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFE0_site-of-ferry-landing_Vincennes-IN.html
From this place in the year 1830Abraham Lincoln crossed theWabash River to Illinois
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDX_grouseland_Vincennes-IN.html
Welcome to"Grouseland"Built 1803 - 1804Home ofWilliam Henry HarrisonGovernor Indiana Territory 1800 - 1812President of the United States 1840
Mansion owned and restored byFrancis Vigo ChapterDaughters of the American Revolution
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDW_vincennes-carnegie-library_Vincennes-IN.html
Side OneDesigned by local architect John B. Bayard in Collegiate Gothic Style; built 1917-1918. Dedicated 1919, with 13, 518 books and 4, 207 registered borrowers, as Vincennes Public Library; Public Library located in City Hall since 1889. Moder…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDV_fort-knox-first-site_Vincennes-IN.html
Built in 1787 by Major John F. Hamtramck under command of General Josiah Harmar. United States Army's most western outpost for several years. Named for General Henry Knox, first Secretary of War.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDU_old-french-house_Vincennes-IN.html
Home of French fur trader Michel Brouillet (1774-1838). French Creole cottage (built circa 1806) is typical of "posts-on-sill" construction technique used by French settlers in Mississippi Valley during eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDT_william-henry-harrison-lewis-clark-expedition_Vincennes-IN.html
Side One Harrison became Governor of Indiana Territory 1800; he administered government of District of Louisiana 1804-1805. In Vincennes, he served as a contact during the expedition; surviving records document his support and his involvement in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFD1_mary-clark_Vincennes-IN.html
Side One: Born circa 1801, Clark, a slave, was purchased in Kentucky in 1814 by B. J. Harrison, brought to Vincennes in 1815, and indentured as his servant. In 1816, G.W. Johnston purchased her indenture for 20 years. In 1821, Clark and attorney …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12V_vincennes_Vincennes-IN.html
So named in honor of French Canadian, Fracois-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes (1700-1736). In 1732, he built a fort here to protect the claims of France in the New World. In 1736, Vincennes was burned at the stake by Chickasaw Indians near the pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM114_the-old-cathedral-french-and-indian-cemetery_Vincennes-IN.html
1750-1846. Contains the graves (mostly unmarked) of some 4,000 inhabitants of early Vincennes, including soldiers and patriots of the American Revolution who helped Colonel George Rogers Clark to capture nearby Fort Sackville in 1779. The cemetery…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM112_vincennes-in-the-american-revolution_Vincennes-IN.html
After taking Kaskaskia on July 5, 1778, George Roges Clark, Acting under Virginia authority, sent Father Pierre Gibault, as his envoy, to Vincennes. Gibault convinced the villagers there to take an oath of loyalty to the Americans. In early August…