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The Jefferson Academy was founded in 1801 as a public university for the Indiana Territory, and was reincorporated as Vincennes University in 1806, the first in the state. [ 159 ]
Boonville was founded in 1818 and named for Jesse Boon, father of Ratliff Boon. [5] A post office has been in operation at Boonville since 1820. [6] Boonville was incorporated in 1858. [7] President Abraham Lincoln studied law in Boonville. When Abraham Lincoln and his family moved from Kentucky to present-day Spencer County in 1816, their ...
A wall dedicated as the Indiana Pioneer Mothers’ Memorial can be found in the Pioneer Mothers Memorial Forest near Paoli. The land was put up for sale in 1940.
A post office was established at Billingsville in 1833, and remained in operation until 1903. [2] Billingsville School was a one-room school erected in Billingsville in 1870 and replaced by a two-story school that existed from 1926 to 1953. [3]
By 1816 this plan proved to be unworkable and was re-platted by order of the Indiana Legislature (An Act to Change the Plan of the Town of Jeffersonville) in 1817. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 1836 a Cincinnati civil engineer (H. L. Barnum) was hired to plot the northern expansion of the town.
Bloomfield is a town within Richland Township and the county seat of Greene County, Indiana, United States. [3] The population was 2,405 at the 2010 census. Bloomfield is part of the Bloomington, Indiana metropolitan area.
Abby Williams and Libby German were found murdered in 2017 near Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana. After years of uncertainty, local man Richard Allen has been found guilty and sentenced to 130 ...
Ancient coins found by Indiana Jones enthusiast sell for $176,000. Kerry Breen. September 19, 2024 at 12:42 PM.