Vincennes, Indiana - Knox County, Indiana, Vincennes University, Rivet High School (Vincennes, Indiana), Lincoln Memorial Bridge (Paperback)

Chapters: Knox County, Indiana, Vincennes University, Rivet High School (Vincennes, Indiana), Lincoln Memorial Bridge, Red Skelton Memorial Bridge, Indiana Territorial Capitol. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vincennes, Indiana - Inhabited for thousands of years by different cultures of indigenous peoples, in historic times, native groups were the Shawnee, Wabash, Miami tribe, among those in the Wabash confederacy. The first European settlers were French, when Vincennes was founded as part of the French colony of Louisiana. After the French and Indian War (part of the Seven Years War, in defeat France ceded territory east of the Mississippi River to England. The area was under British rule associated with the colony of Canada until after the American Revolution. It then became part of the Illinois Country of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia. Next part of Knox County in the Northwest Territory, it was later included in the Indiana Territory. Vincennes served as capital of the Indiana Territory from 1800 until 1813, when the government was moved to Corydon. The first trading post on the Wabash River was established by the Sieur Juchereau, Lieutenant General of Montral. With thirty-four Canadiens, he founded the company post on 28 October 1702 to trade for Buffalo hides with American Indians. The exact location of Juchereau's trading post is not known, but because the Buffalo Trace crosses the Wabash at Vincennes, many believe it was here. The post was a success; in the first two years, the traders collected over 13,000 buffalo hides. When Juchereau died, the post was abandoned. The French-Canadian settlers left what they considered hostile territory for Mobile (in present-day Alabama), then the capital of Louisiana. The oldest European town ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=112391