Home of Francis Vigo

Colonel Vigo built an elegant residence here in 1800.

Vigo, a fur trader, helped George Rogers Clark in

capturing Fort Sackville and winning the Northwest.

Governor William Henry Harrison lived here temporarily

after first coming to Vincennes.

Marker is on North 2nd Street north of ...

Football Fever

Can you imagine rooting for the Kansas City Texans? Team owner, Lamar Hunt, once considered keeping the nickname of the team he brought to our town from Dallas in 1963. Instead, after considering such monikers as the “Steers,” the ...

Site of the Sonora Plaza Well

1848

First public water well in the city of Sonora and located on the perimeter of the early day plaza that was established by the Mexican immigrants as Sonora Camp. The well has its source in a spring underground at the ...

The Murphy Farm

Established 1869

Alexander Murphy 1840-1931

Mollie M. Murphy 1869-1945

Mary Murphy 1834-1908

William J. Murphy 1872-1931

Historical events on the Farm:

Battle of Harpers Ferry

September 13-15, 1862

General Philip Sheridan's Fortification

August 1864 to April 1865

Site of John Brown Fort

1895-1910

Pilgrimage of the

Colored Women's League of Washington, D.C.

July 1896

The ...

State Bank of Indiana

The second State Bank, chartered in 1834,

was a successful and stable venture in

uncertain times. John Ewing of Vincennes

was a leader in its creation.

This branch was built by John Moore

by 1838, saved by the Francis Vigo Chapter,

DAR, in 1958, and ...

Home of BBQ

On a warm summer evening in Kansas City, you can develop an appetite just driving down the street. That’s because this unofficial “Home of Barbecue” boasts more than 90 barbecue-devoted restaurants, as well as numerous BBQ cookoffs, and a ...

Hale: The Firepole

Imagine this scene in 1850… a dry, hot summer day in the newly incorporated town of Kansas City. The street is crowded with wooden structures. Suddenly, swirls of black smoke stream from a saloon roof. The church bells begin ...

Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices

Abraham Lincoln prepared and wrote his first inaugural address as President of the United States, in the third story of this building in the month of January, 1861.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of E Adams Street and South ...

Federal Land Office

Public lands from the New Purchase of 1818 were sold from Ambrose Whitlock's cabin located on this site.

Whitlock, who platted Crawfordsville in 1823, was receiver for the Federal Land Office until 1829.

Williamson Dunn was register for the office ...

The Church of the Generals

St. John’s Episcopal Church

General Robert E. Lee – Vestryman 1842-1844

General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson – Baptized 1849

General Matthew B. Ridgway (N.A.T.O. Commander) – Baptized 1899---------------

Other general and flag officers

who have worshipped here areJoseph H. Bailey, Harvey Brown, John B. Clitz, ...