New Purchase Boundary
(Treaty of St. Mary’s)
In October 1818, Purchasing Commissioners Lewis Cass, Benjamin Parke and Governor Jonathan Jennings acquired Indian claims on the land shown on this marker. About one-third of modern Indiana was involved in this transaction.
Marker is at the intersection of South Washington Street and East 3rd Street (Indiana Route 18), on the left when traveling south on South Washington Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
