Battle of Corydon

- - - July 9, 1863 - - -

A force of about 400, Indiana militia and citizen volunteers commanded by Col. Lewis Jordan, engaged John Hunt Morgan's raiders, 2,400 cavalry, along a wooded ridge a mile south of Corydon. The ...

Ford’s Mill & Page’s Mill / Lake View

In 1792 Major William Ford built a dam at each end of Bear Swamp, creating a millpond and building a grist mill. This area was known as Ford’s Mill for many years. In 1870 Dr. C. T. Ford sold the ...

Fort Harker

Constructed by the Union Army in the summer of 1862 and expanded in 1864, using soldiers and freed slaves, Ft. Harker was built on a broad hill a quarter mile east of town. It overlooked Crow Creek and was well ...

Battle of Corydon

On July 9, 1863, along this wooded ridge - - - from the “Laconta” Road extending across the “Mauckport” Pike to the old “New Amsterdam” Road - - - occurred the only Civil War battle in Indiana. It was between ...

Harrison County (Indiana) Fair

Oldest continuous County Fair existing in Indiana. First fair held Sept. 11 - 14, 1860. Citizens met jan. 1860, organized Harrison County Agricultural Society, adopted constitution which with amendments governs yet today. Ground purchased Mar. 1860 from Benj. Aydelott, half ...

The Prairie States Forestry Project

The Prairie States Forestry Project was initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to combat the severe wind-caused soil erosion of the Dust Bowl days. From 1935 through 1942, the U.S. Forest Service, working with the Works Progress Administration ...

Fayette County Civil War Memorial

Honoring those who served

during the Rebellion of 1861-1865

It is believed that this statue

was placed in this cemetery

between 1905 and 1913.

Following a partial

restoration in 1995 by Irene

Grim Looker, National

President of the Ladies of the

Grand Army of the Republic, it

was totally restored ...

"Duke of Paducah"

Irving Shrewsbury Cobb, 1876-1944.

One of Paducah's famous sons. "A first~class humorist from a conversational gesture to a book wit who made all the world laugh with him."

Author of more than sixty books, short story writer, recipient of O'Henry Award, movie ...

Barkley's Law Office

Alben W. Barkley, Congressman, U.S. Senator and Vice President, began practice of law here, 1901. He had read law for two years in offices of Rep. Charles K. Wheeler and Judge Wm. Sutton Bishop, the old Judge Priest of Irvin ...

Fresno County Courthouse

A temporary rough board building, containing county offices, was erected near the spot in the fall of 1874, about the time the cornerstone was laid for the original permanent courthouse. Fresno was selected by the voters in a previous spring ...