Indiana: Indiana State Historical Bureau Markers
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMVH7_in-memory-of-col-john-ketcham-time-capsule_Brownstown-IN.html
In Memory of Col. John Ketcham
1782 - 1865 Fearless pioneer, Ranger, surveyor, public servant who dedicated this public square for seat of government of Jackson County, Ind. when Brownstown was founded April 8, 1816.
Time Capsule
Brownstown Area Se…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMVVB_pivot-point_Paoli-IN.html
600 yards west, intersection of the baseline and the second principal meridian, the lines fixed in 1805 by Ebenezer Buckingham, to govern land survey in Indiana under the Ordinance of 1785.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMVVF_abraham-s-fulton_Troy-IN.html
brother of Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, is buried in Troy Cemetery near this spot. He was fatally injured while felling trees to build the family home on the site called Fulton Hill. The Fulton family owned extensive acreage in Perry County. Th…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMVVK_site-of-rockport-tavern_Rockport-IN.html
In October 1844 Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at Spencer County Courthouse to promote Henry Clay, Whig presidential candidate. Lincoln, during his first trip to Indiana in 14 years, was a guest at the Tavern. Site first marked October 28, 1926.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMW0M_abraham-lincoln-employed_Troy-IN.html
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Lincoln (1809-1865) lived northwest of here 1816-1830. Worked circa 1825 as hired hand for James Taylor. William Herndon, a Lincoln biographer, wrote that Lincoln told him it "was the roughest work a young man could be made to do." He butchere…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMW40_monroe-countys-carnegie-library_Bloomington-IN.html
Side ACounty's only Carnegie Library dedicated in 1918 as Bloomington Public Library with 6,439 volumes; built with local support and $31,000 from Carnegie Corporation. Replaced Colored School, at this site circa 1874-1915. Addition built at southeast corne…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMW41_the-colored-school_Bloomington-IN.html
Side ABy 1874, what has been known as the Colored School opened in Center School here at Sixth and Washington Streets to serve African-American elementary students of Bloomington. An 1869 law had mandated education of colored children, with a separate enume…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMW7I_lyles-station_Princeton-IN.html
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Settled in late 1840s by Joshua and Sanford Lyles, former slaves from Tennessee. African Methodist Episcopal Church (since 1860) and schools (1865-1958) played important roles in sustaining the community. On land donated by Joshua Lyles, railr…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMW7K_james-washington-cockrum_Oakland-City-IN.html
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Born 1799 in North Carolina. Purchased land 1818 in Gibson County. Cockrum and Jacob Warrick Hargrove laid out the town of Oakland (now Oakland City) on January 15, 1856. Cockrum and his son William Monroe Cockrum, along with sympathizers in W…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMW7O_wabash-and-erie-canal-completed-1853_Petersburg-IN.html
The approximately 460 mile canal from Toledo, Ohio, to Evansville, Indiana, was the longest canal built in the United States. Here a section constructed above the natural land surface to prevent flooding and erosion, remains intact.