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Indiana State Emblems and Symbols

· Indiana State Motto : "The Crossroads of Indiana" (adopted in 1937)

· Indiana State Flower : The Peony  (adopted in 1957)

· Indiana State Bird: The Cardinal  (adopted in 1933; Indiana Code 1-2-8)

· Indiana State Tree : The Tulip Tree  (adopted in 1931)

· Indiana State Stone : Limestone (adopted by 1971 General Assembly per IC: 1-2-9-1).
Sec. 1.  "The regal type rock "Limestone" which is found and quarried in south and central Indiana from the geologic formation named the Salem Limestone, is hereby adopted as the official stone of the State of Indiana."

· Indiana State River : The Wabash River  (adopted in 1996, per IC: 1-2-11-1 )
Sec. 1.  "The river commonly known as the Wabash River is adopted and designated as the official river of the state of Indiana."

· Indiana State FLAG, designed by Paul Hadley, of Mooresville, Morgan County, Indiana.
Sec. 1. "A state flag is hereby adopted, and the same shall be of the following design and dimensions, to-wit: Its dimensions shall be three (3) feet fly by two (2) feet hoist; or five (5) feet fly by three (3) feet hoist; or any size proportionate to either of those dimensions. The field of the flag shall be blue with nineteen (19) stars and a flaming torch in gold or buff. Thirteen (13) stars shall be arranged in an outer circle, representing the original thirteen (13) states; five (5) stars shall be arranged in a half circle below the torch and inside the outer circle of stars, representing the states admitted prior to Indiana; and the nineteenth star, appreciably larger than the others and representing Indiana shall be placed above the flame of the torch. The outer circle of stars shall be so arranged that one (1) star shall appear directly in the middle at the top of the circle, and the word "Indiana" shall be placed in a half circle over and above the star representing Indiana and midway between it and the star in the center above it. Rays shall be shown radiating from the torch to the three (3) stars on each side of the star in the upper center of the circle.
    Township trustees, boards of school trustees and boards of school commissioners of the various school corporations of this state, and board of county commissioners of the several counties of the state, may procure a state flag for each school and for each courthouse under their respective supervision and cause the same to be placed conspicuously in the principal room or assembly hall and any courtroom of any such building or courthouse."
  (adopted by 1917 Indiana General Assembly, as amended by Acts 1979: IC: 1-2-2-1 )
Sec. 2. The banner described in section 1 of this chapter shall be regulation, in addition to the American flag, with all of the militia forces of the state of Indiana, and in all public functions in which the state may or shall officially appear." (IC 1-2-2-2).

· Indiana State Seal  (adopted by the 1963 Indiana General Assembly, IC: 1-2-4-1).
Sec. 1. "The official seal for the state of Indiana shall be described as follows:
    A perfect circle, two and five eighths (2 5/8) inches in diameter, inclosed by a plain line. Another circle within the first, two and three eighths (2 3/8) inches in diameter inclosed by a beaded line, leaving a margin of one quarter (1/4) of an inch. In the top half of this margin are the words "Seal of the State of Indiana".
    At the bottom center, 1816, flanked on either side by a diamond, with two (2) dots and a leaf of the tulip tree (liriodendron tulipifera), at both ends of the diamond. The inner circle has two (2) trees in the left background, three (3) hills in the center background with nearly a full sun setting behind and between the first and second hill from the left.
    There are fourteen (14) rays from the sun, starting with two (2) short ones on the left, the third being longer and then alternating, short and long. There are two (2) sycamore trees on the right, the larger one being nearer the center and having a notch cut nearly half way through, from the left side, a short distance above the ground. The woodsman is wearing a hat and holding his ax nearly perpendicular on his right. The ax blade is turned away from him and is even with his hat.
    The buffalo is in the foreground, facing to the left of front. His tail is up, front feet on the ground with back feet in the air_as he jumps over a log.
    The ground has shoots of blue grass, in the area of the buffalo and woodsman."

· Indiana's Official State Song:  On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away, Written and Composed by Paul Dresser (1859-1906), a native of Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana.
   (adopted by the General Assemby in 1913, As found in Indiana Code 1-2-6-1).
Sec. 1. "The song entitled, "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away," words and music by Paul Dresser, be and is hereby established as the state song of Indiana. The form in which this song shall be sung as the state song of Indiana shall be as follows:
    'Round my Indiana homestead wave the cornfields,
    In the distance loom the woodlands clear and cool,
    Oftentimes my tho'ts revert to scenes of childhood,
    Where I first received my lessons - nature's school.
    But one thing there is missing in the picture,
    Without her face it seems so incomplete,
    I long to see my mother in the doorway,
    As she stood there years ago, her boy to greet.
                                    CHORUS
    Oh, the moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash,
    From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay,
    Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming,
    On the banks of the Wabash, far away.
    Many years have passed since I strolled by the river,
    Arm in arm, with sweetheart Mary by my side,
    It was there I tried to tell her that I loved her,
    It was there I begged of her to be my bride.
    Long years have passed since I strolled thro' the churchyard.
    She's sleeping there, my angel, Mary dear,
    I loved her, but she thought I didn't mean it,
    Still I'd give my future were she only here."

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Agriculture & Farming

• A Condensed History of American Agriculture 1776-1999
• United States Department of Agriculture
• Timeline History of American Agriculture, 1776-1990
• Farm Machinery and Technology
• Farmers and the Land
• Crops and Livestock
• The Amos Owen Garden of American Indian Horticulture
• Purdue U. : Agriculture Department and AG Centers Map
• Indiana Agriculture in Transition Web Site -  serves Indiana farm families adjusting to the changing agricultural economy.
• Hoosier History: DOWN ON THE FARM
• The National Grange - History -  The Indiana Chapter!

· Tools and Machinery

• Farming the Land (Early 20th Century)- F. A. Pazandak Photograph Collection includes:
• Implements used on the Farm (1880-1920)
• Steam Engines and Tractors (1880-1920)

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Architecture

• Take an Architectural Tour of Columbus, IN via a web map
• Historic House Museums in Indiana
• Indiana Government Statehouse History and Tour
• Virtual Tour of 32 Covered Bridges in Parke County
• Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project - "The Ohio River Bridges Project, Environmental Impact Statement and Preliminary Design, is the largest bi-state transportation project ever undertaken by Indiana and Kentucky. The work includes an assessment of potential bridge alignments, redesign of connecting interstate highways on both sides of the river..."
• Historic Homes & Buildings of Madison
• Indiana War Memorials : Art and Architecture

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Archaeology & Artifacts

• An Introduction to the Prehistory of Indiana, by James H. Kellar
• Indiana DNR: Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology
• ArchNet: A Guide to Lithic Tool Types / Points
• SARC: Stone Age Reference Collection
• What's The Point: Identifying Flint Artifacts
• Indiana Archaeological Sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places
• Glenn A. Black Laboratory:  Current Research
• National Association of State Archaeologists - Indiana
• Amerindian Mound Culture and American Amnesia, by James Hutchison
• The Paleo, Archaic, Woodland and Mississippian Periods
• Mound Types
• Michael's Home Page - Archaeology, Lithics & Stone Working

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The Arts

• Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
• Painting
• Theodore C. Steele, Indiana artist.
• Literature

The Guilded Page (ca. 1866-1901) a virtual library of texts by U.S. authors during the Guided Age.  See Progress and Poverty: An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of the increase of want with increase of wealth... The Remedy, by Henry George

• Drama
• Carole Lombard - born in Fort Wayne
• Music and Dance
• Tippecanoe  Ancient Fife & Drum Corps - 18th century French music

P.O. Box 1121 - Lafayette, IN 47902 E-mail: wmd@Virtual-Indiana.com

• Loyalist and British Songs of the American Revolution
• Star of Indiana Brass & Percussion Corps
• IUB Alumnus: Hoagy Carmichael, best known for "Stardust"
• Michael Jackson
• What is Old-time Music? by Mike Seeger
• Photographs & Photography
• Daguerreotype Portraits and Views (1839-1864)
• A Thumbnail History of the Daguerreotype, by Kenneth E. Nelson
• Dave Rozanna's: Tips for Dating Old Photographs
• Photos: Library of Congress American Memory Collection (ca. 1880-1910)

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• Indiana Tourism Photo Gallery
• Entertainment
• Hoosierwood - Hoosiers who are or have made a contribution to Hollywood History
• American Variety Stage - Vaudville & Popular Entertainment (1870-1920)

Miscellaneous

• Overbeck Art Pottery, produced from 1911 until 1955, Cambridge, IN
• Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, in Indianapolis, IN

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Biographies

• Submit your Indiana ancestors' biographies to Ron Branson's County History.
• 1697: The Life of a Montagnais Missionary (1639-1702) by François de Crespieul
• Chief Little Turtle (Michikinikwa) -  A leader of the Miami Indians, he was born ca. 1752 near Fort Wayne, IN, and died in Fort Wayne 14 July 1812.  Having defeated both Gen. St. Claire and Gen. Harmar, he urged peace prior to the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers, and was one of the signers of the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.
• Little Turtle's famed battle humbled U.S. forces, by Michael Hawfield
• Meshekinoquah aka Little Turtle (ca. 1747-1812)
• Blue Jacket (Weyapiersenwah) - A Shawnee leader of the Native American Confederation, he signed the 1795 Treaty of Greenville after being defeated by Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

Shooting Star (Tecumseh) - A skilled and courageous Shawnee fighter, Tecumseh was, however, known for his opposition to unnecessary, arbitrary killing.  He and his brother, Tenskwatawa (The Shawnee Prophet), established a northern Indiana village called Prophet's Town, which was later destroyed in 1811.  He refused to sign the Treaty of Greenville.   Tecumseh did not believe it valid for individual tribes to have borders, rather he believed the Northwest Territory belonged to a single Indian Nation.  He wanted to unite all of the tribes against further American expansion by gaining the support of the Wyandot (keepers of the council fire of the western alliance) and the Delaware (grandfather tribe of all Algonquin).  Tecumseh died at the Battle of the Thames on Oct. 5, 1813.  See also Tecumseh's Teachings

• Tecumseh and Prophet's Town (near Lafayette, IN)
• The History of Tecumseh and the battle at Tippecanoe Creek
• Chief John B. Richardville: Chief of the Miami from 1816 to 1841
• Herman Joseph Alerding: Fourth Bishop of Fort Wayne Catholic Diocese
• Pioneer Priests of Indiana: Stephen Theodore Badin (1763-1853) and Notre Dame Archives: Stephen Theodore Badin and St. Denis History includes a biography of Father Stephen Theordore Badin
• General Josiah Harmar (After the American Revolution, Harmar commanded the federal army of the United States.  He was directed to "expell settlers" and quell Native American raids north of the Ohio River, in the Northwest Territory.)
• General Arthur St. Claire: Governor of the Northwest Territory
• General Anthony Wayne - In 1792, Wayne lead the Legion of the United States against the native American forces in Ohio and Indiana. Wayne's troops defeated the native Americans at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, Ohio. The victory led to the Wayne's Treaty of Greeneville in 1795, which opened the Northwest Territory for settlement.
• Biography of Anthony Wayne (1745-1796): Man of Action
  
• Gen. Anthony Wayne helped the nation grow west, by Richard Battin
• Father Pierre Gibault (1737 - 1802) -  called the "Patriot Priest" for his contributions to the American cause during the Revolutionary War, including his aid in securing the French allegiance to George Rogers Clark and the Americans.  See also George Rogers Clark
• George Rogers Clark (1752 - 1818) - In 1779, Hamilton surrendered to Clark at Vincennes.
• Read more about the "Fall of Fort Sackville"
• George Rogers Clark Memoir of Campaigns against the British posts northwest of the river Ohio
• Jonathan Chapman "Johnny Appleseed" (1774-1845) - A pioneer and missionary best known for planting apple trees, Jonathan Chapman was born in Massachusetts, and died in Indiana.  He is thought to be buried in a park bearing his name in Fort Wayne.
• Johnny Appleseed - A Fort Wayne News-Sentinel biography.
• William Henry Harrison - Indiana's First Territorial Governor (1773-1841) - aided Anthony Wayne in battles against the Miami Indians, he was appointed governor of Indiana Territory in 1800, and by 1840, Harrison was elected the 9th President of the United States.
• An American Life: Captain John Conner of Indiana and the West, (b. in 1802 in what became Hamilton County, Indiana) by Timothy Crumrin - "...This overview is a preliminary appraisal of the life of Capt. John Conner. It is the first in a series dealing with the Delaware (Lenape) Indians, the Conner family's interaction with the group, and William Conner's Delaware family..."
• Walking The Knife-Edged Path: The Life Of William Conner (b. ca. 1771), by Timothy Crumrin.
• Sequential List of Indiana Governors
• Benjamin Harrison - (1833 - 1901) - Elected President in 1888, he returned to his law practice in Indianapolis where he died.
• Abraham Lincoln for Primary Children: "...our first grade class visits Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood National Memorial, at Lincoln City, Indiana..."
• Paul Dresser (1859-1906), a native of Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, wrote and composed Indiana's Official State Song:  "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away". The Dresser Manuscript collection is held at the Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405.
• Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924) - Author of Freckles, A Girl of the

Limberlost, and more...

• Our Land, Our Literature: Gene Stratton-Porter
• Edith Hamilton, by Benita Brownin: "...Edith was 63 when her first book The Greek Way was published in 1930..."
• Paul Hadley (ca. 1880-1971) - Artist and designer of the Indiana state flag, Paul Hadley was a  long-time Mooresville, Morgan County, Indiana resident.  He died, in 1971 in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. Biography by Jane Ruddick.
• Carole Lombard - born in Fort Wayne
• Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" Home Page
• WPA Life Histories from Indiana (1930s) - mostly first-person accounts of life in Indiana collected during the Great Depression.

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Books, Newspapers & Publications

• The Taming of the Wilderness: Indiana's Transition from Indian Hunting Grounds to Hoosier Farmland: 1800 to 1875, by Leon Hesser -  This new book approaches 19th Century Indiana history through early documents, letters and the author's own Quaker family history.  It boldly addresses Native American and slavery issues which arose during this era of Indiana's history, while not neglecting the simple, day-to-day lifestyles of the early settlers, as related by those who lived during this era.  It is available for sale as an e-book or in either paperback or hardcover.
• Edith Hamilton by Benita Brownin: "...Edith was 63 when her first book The Greek Way was published in 1930..."
• Archiving Early America - historic documents from 18th century America
• The History Net
• The Early America Review A Journal of Fact and Opinion On the People, Issues and Events Of 18th Century America
• History of Ladies' Magazines - during the late 19th and early 20th century.
• The Victoriana Online wide range of topics (19th Century)
• Indiana State Museum Society's: Hoosierisms Quarterly - "A magazine celebrating the work of museums and other institutions promoting local history in Indiana."

· Indiana State Library.    140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296

o Newspaper Holdings: Holdings by county (in Indianapolis)

• Vital Information Exchange (VINE)AJR: Online Indiana Newspapers
• MediaLinks - for Indiana.
• Alibris - used, new and out-of-print books
• Advanced Book Exchange for Indiana Bookstores.
• Advanced Book Exchange Home Page.
• Hyde Brothers, Booksellers - search inventory by author, title, publisher or key word on ABE.

   1428 Wells St.
Fort Wayne, IN
U.S.A. 46808   Phone: (800) 264-6369 * Email: hydebros@worldnet.att.net

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Cemeteries/Gravestones/Obituaries/Funerals

• Mourning and Funeral Usages, from Harper's Bazar- April 17, 1886.
• Etiquette of Funerals, from Polite Life and Etiquette or What is Right and The Social Arts, written by Georgene Corry Benham, published by Chicago : Louis Benham & Company, 1891.
• Funeral Coach History and Terminology
• Jewish Funeral and Mourning Customs
• History Magazine: 'Til Death Do Us Part ', Beverly Downing writes about some of the traditions associated with death.
• History Of Funeral Customs
• Indiana Funeral Directors Association - includes a membership directory, state laws, grief support resources and information about the funeral profession.
• Indiana State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Service
• Funeralnet.com: Online Obituary, Funeral, Cremation and Cemetery Resource
• The Poorhouse Story, by Linda Crannell and CCS - a collection of information, by state, which invites submissions to help tell this untold tale, including cemeteries associated with 'poorhouses' - read "Emma's Story" to see the touching story behind the site!!!
• The Political Graveyard, for Indiana, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site about U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.
• Cemetery Junction for Indiana.
• Cemetery Records Online
• Cemetery Records Online for Indiana, by Steve Paul Johnson - Cemeteries and Genealogy.

· Indiana State Library.    140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296

o Indiana Cemetery Locator Database

• Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Project, by Lois Mauk.
• Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries - In the News!
• INPCRP: Cemeteries Hall of Shame, examples of abandoned, neglected, abused, obliterated Indiana cemeteries.
• Step-by-Step Cemetery Restoration Guidelines
• St. Mary's of Knobs Church Cemetery Page with a history from late 1700s when Roman Catholics  of Maryland were among the pioneers who settled along the Falls of the Ohio.
• Lawrence Kestenbaum's Links to resources on cemetery history and preservation
• Association for Gravestone Studies: for the purpose of furthering the study and preservation of gravestones.
• Cyndi's List of Cemeteries, etc.

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Census

• NARA's Prologue: "First in the Path of the Firemen": The Fate of the 1890 Population, By Kellee Blake.
• NARA's (National Archives and Records Administration): Genealogy Page.
• Historical United States Census Data Browser
• Historical Background of the Census : Article is scanned and reprinted from: 200 Years of Census Taking: Population and Housing Questions, 1790-1990. Washington, DC: Bureauof the Census, 1989.
• United States Census Bureau
• 1820 Indiana Census Index, by Lori!

• Obtaining EDs for the 1930 Census in One Step (Large Cities), by Stephen P. Morse, PhD, Joel D. Weintraub, PhD and David R. Kehs, PhD

• familysearch.org - 1880 Census Index - Wonderful new resource!!!
• FTM - Online Census Abstract Forms
• USGen Web Census Images Table of Contents

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Church & Religion - Historical

• Making Of America a digital library site being developed by the Universities of Cornell and Michigan to document American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
• Churches  in Greene County, IN
• St. Mary's of Knobs Church Cemetery Page with a history from late 1700s when Roman Catholics  of Maryland were among the pioneers who settled along the Falls of the Ohio.
• The Old Cathedral, St. Francis Xavier in Vincennes - Library & Museum
• A Guide to Local Catholic Church History and Genealogy
• Brethren Life: Migrations,  by Merle C. Rummel - Roads Used By The Brethren For Migration...
• Quakers of Richmond & Wayne County, Indiana : "...From pioneer days to the present, the Richmond and Wayne County area has been an important national and international center for Quaker activities and institutions..."
• The Quaker Family History Society - A British organization, with online historical and research information.
• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
• Earlham School of Religion: Quaker ministries - Earlham Libraries > Friends Collection and Archives.
• Quaker History Archives
• Indiana Yearly Meeting (Friends) - Churches & Pastors Directory
• Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends/Quaker)
• History of Friends
• History of the Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting
• Friends Meetings- by U.S. State.
• Quaker Meetings by State
• Indiana Quakers
• Quaker Meetings in Indiana
• Quaker Corner
• A Map of the Locations of the Meetings, Constituting Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1851.  Revised, 1853. (Quaker)
• Shaker
• Map of the Shaker Sites in the Midwest - including West Union, Indiana, on the Shaker Valley web site.
• Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky has an informative history.

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Communication

• Indiana Postal History Society

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Economy/Money

• Business and Industry
• A Brief overview of the History of Indiana & Manufacturing on Baker & Daniels
• Ben Schroeder Saddle Tree Co. Museum - America's Last Saddle Tree Factory 
• Money
• University of Notre Dame Online Exhibit - Colonial Coins & Currency
• Society of Paper Money Collectors, Inc.
• McMaster Archives: History of Economic Thought
• The Inflation Calculator online, created by S. Morgan Friedman, is reported to "...adjusts any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 1999..."
• "Current Value of Old Money", by Roy Davies, attempts to answer the frequent question is "how much would a specified amount of money at a certain period of time be worth today?", with resources for Europe, U.S.A., Spain and even ancient Rome.

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Education

• Little Hoosiers Kid's Page!
• Purdue University - Lafayette, IN
• Indiana University -
• Department of History
• The American Historical Review: The Journal of the American Historical Association
• Early Medical Schools in Indiana: Indiana's first state constitution provided for the establishment of a state medical school in Vincennes. ..
• Center for Innovative Computer Applications: University Web Servers in Indiana
• National Standards for United States History
• The Native American History Archive:  A New Center for Native American Studies in Internetworked Classrooms.
• Indiana Geology Today - Educational Site!!
• The Northwest Ordinance, July 13, 1787.
• Indiana Historical Bureau: Lesson Plan-Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Taken from Lessons on the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Learning materials for secondary school courses in American history, government, and civics, by John J. Patrick.

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Ethnic/Cultural/Gender:  Women | Native American | African American | Asian/Pacific |
          | English | Irish | French | German | German Amish | Hispanic | Jewish |  Macedonian |
          | Quaker | Scottish | Shaker | Spanish | Swiss Mennonite |
          | The Poor (of all religious and ethnic groups) |
Your suggestions for additional are welcome

• Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

   955 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W., Suite 2600, MRC 914, Smithsonian Institution,
   Washington, D.C. 20560-0914.

• Women in History
• Votes for Women - Selections of National American Women Sufferage Assoc. (1848-1921)
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
• How Did the Views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois toward Woman Suffrage Change between 1900 and 1915?
• Edith Hamilton by Benita Brownin: "...Edith was 63 when her first book The Greek Way was published in 1930..."
• Native Americans
• Wea Indian Tribe:  Information and Links
• 715 Park Avenue - Lafayette, Indiana 47904
• An Introduction to the Prehistory of Indiana by James H. Kellar.
• Miami Nation of Indians
• 80 W. 6^th Street - P.O. Box 41 - Peru, Indiana 46970  Phone: (765) 473-9631.
• http://www.miamiindians.org/
• Annuity Payroll:  June 12, 1895, on the USGenWeb for Miami County
• The MYAAMIA Project, from the Miami Nation and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
• Indians of Indiana - Guide which includes migration maps, from Ray's History and Guide to Terre Haute
• Information about the Illinois-Miami language.
• Miami History, by Lee Sultzman
• Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
• Miami Tribal Library
• Indian Nations - Indian Territory, for the Miami Nation, online at the Oklahoma USGenWeb
• Native American Census Enumeration - information about
• The Big Miami Reserve, Article by Historian, Carl Leiter, includes maps - In 1819: "...The largest of these [Miami Indian towns] in north central Indiana was located at the confluence of the Mississinewa and Wabash rivers and was named "Missinewa Town" on the Surveyors' plat of the region. ..."
• Glenn A. Black Laboratory Current Research Publications Menu
• An Introduction to the Prehistory of Indiana, by James H. Kellar, online at the Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Reproduced with the permission of the Indiana Historical Societies.
• Index of Miami Names, Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology and The Trustees of Indiana University
• The Research Experiences of the Miami Nation of Indiana, by Darryl Baldwin, Miami of Indiana---Graduate student in Linguistics at the University of Montana. Coordinator of the Indiana Miami Language and Cultural revitalization program.
• French-Canadian Associations: PRDH, The Comprehensive Site of Quebec French-Canadian Genealogy
• History of the Potawatomi (By the 1760s, they expanded into northern Indiana from the northern areas between  Milwaukee and Detroit.)
• Wea Indian Tribe of Indiana, Inc.  - Clinton, Indiana
• Ancestral History
• Susan Campbell's Potawatomi Genealogy
• Smokey McKinney's Prairie Band Potawatomi Web
• Potawatomi Language Resource
• Wea Indian Tribe:  Information and Links
• The Museums At Prophetstown, Inc.
• Miami Indians Ethnohistory Archives:  The Miami Collection  (Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University, Bloomington).
• An Introduction to the Prehistory of Indiana
• The Great Lakes Project: The Geographic Location of Potawatomi Bands: 1795-1846, With a consideration of the earlier habitat and migrations of the Potawatomi and other Indian occupations on lands ceded to the United States by the Potawatomi Indians, Written by Dr. David A Baerrels.
• Index to Miami Indian Archives
• Index of Miami Names in Archives
• An Anthropological Report on the Piankashaw Indians, by Dorothy Libby.
• A Guide to The Ohio Valley-Great Lakes Ethnohistory Archive: "...a unique assemblage of primary and secondary resources pertaining to the Native American occupancy of the region..." Assembled by David R. Miller, Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University, (1979).
• First Nations Histories by Lee Stultzman
• Geographic Overview of First Nations Histories
• History of the Ottawa Ottawa Chief Pontiac called for an uprising in 1763, during which  8 of 12 British forts west of the Appalacians were overcome including Fort Miamis (Fort Wayne, IN) and Fort Ouiatenon (Lafayette, IN).
• History of the Huron  see Wyandot

History of the Iroquois - By 1680, the Iroquois had extended their empire to encompass most of the northeastern United States which included the area of present day Indiana.

• History of the Delaware
• History of the Miami
• History of the Potawatomi
• c1475 Gayanashagowa The Great Binding Law - Constitution of the Iroquois Nations
• Iroquois : Catholic Encyclopedia history and culture
• History of the Shawnee - See  Tippecanoe (Prophetstown) (IN).  Lee Stultzman reports that the Shawnee considered the Delaware their "grandfathers" and "the source of all Algonquin". Tecumseh sided with the British during the War of 1812.  Most Shawnee, Wyandot, & Delaware remained neutral.
• History of the Delaware  (Lenape) - The "grandfather tribe of all Algonquin", obtained permission to settle in the Indiana area from the Miami in 1770.  Woapimintschi and Munsee were subtribes residing in the Indiana area.  Anderson's Town, Tetepachksit's Town, and Woapikamikunk, Black Hawk, Buckstown, Hockingpomska's Town, Killbuck's Town, Kiktheswemund, Little Munsee Town and Outaunink were among the villages in Indiana.   The Delaware ceded a portion of their southern Indiana land, in 1803, and the remaining portion in October 1818, with the St. Mary's Treaty.  By 1822, "...the Delaware left Indiana and moved to the James Fork of the White River in southwest Missouri..."
• History of the Kickapoo (by 1770 extended to central-western Indiana)
• Sugar Creek Historical Society -  "...a group of individuals interested in preserving the Indian and pioneer history of the Thorntown area (Boone County, Indiana)..."
• The Miami Tribe ANNUITY PAY-ROLL JUNE 12, 1895!
• Chief Little Turtle (Michikinikwa) -  A leader of the Miami Indians, he was born in 1752 near Fort Wayne, IN, and died in Fort Wayne 14 July 1812.  Having defeated both Gen. St. Claire and Gen. Harmar, he urged peace prior to the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers, and was one of the signers of the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.
• Little Turtle's famed battle humbled U.S. forces, by Michael Hawfield
• Meshekinoquah aka Little Turtle (ca. 1747-1812)
• Blue Jacket (Weyapiersenwah) - A Shawnee leader of the Native American Confederation, he signed the 1795 Treaty of Greenville after being defeated by Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
• Shooting Star (Tecumseh) - Tecumseh died 5 OCT 1813 at the Battle of the Thames.  Even though he was a skilled and courageous Shawnee fighter, he was known for his opposition to unnecessary, arbitrary killing.  He refused to sign the Treaty of Greenville (1795).   Believing the Northwest Territory belonged to a single Indian Nation, he did not believe borders for individual tribes were acceptable.  See also Tecumseh's Teachings
• Tecumseh and Prophet's Town (near Lafayette, IN): The History of Tecumseh and the battle at Tippecanoe Creek
• Chief John B. Richardville: Chief of the Miami from 1816 to 1841
• Potawatomi Links :
• Potawatomi History : Lee Sultzman
• An American Life: Captain John Conner of Indiana and the West, (b. in 1802 in what became Hamilton County, Indiana) by Timothy Crumrin - "...This overview is a preliminary appraisal of the life of Capt. John Conner. It is the first in a series dealing with the Delaware (Lenape) Indians, the Conner family's interaction with the group, and William Conner's Delaware family..."
• Indians on the Trans-Appalachian Frontier
• Native Web
• Center for the Study of the First Americans, Department of Anthropology Texas A & M
• Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, in Indianapolis, IN
• American Indian Research and Policy Institute :  "...guide is for educators, human service professionals, policy makers and others who work with American Indians..."
• The Fall Creek Massacre (1824), on Conner Prairie site - "The Fall Creek Massacre was the name given to the brutal murders of a peaceful group of Seneca and Miami Indians by white settlers. The actual massacre occurred on March 22, 1824 in Madison County, Indiana between Fall Creek and Deer Lick Creek..."
• The Taming of the Wilderness: Indiana's Transition from Indian Hunting Grounds to Hoosier Farmland: 1800 to 1875, by Leon Hesser -  a 19th Century Indiana history book which is available for sale as an e-book or in either paperback or hardcover.  "...A dominant theme portrays the fate of Native Americans who were pushed out of their sacred lands by coercion and brute force so the settlers could remake the landscape to their own liking..."
• African American
• African American Perspectives (1818-1907) from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection
• Progress of A People - A Special Presentation of The African American Pamphlet Collection
• National Archives:  Records that pertain to American Slavery and the International Slave Trade, a description of resources.
• Living with the Hydra: The Documentation of Slaveery and the Slave Trade in Federal Records, by Walter B. Hill, Jr., online at NARA, Prologue: Winter 2000, Vol. 32, No. 4.
• In Search of African America:  One Collector's Experience: An online exhibit at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum (West Branch, Iowa), includes articles, such as the following:
• The Burden of Slavery, 1619-1861
• The Civil War, 1861-1865
• The Price of Freedom: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
• Say Hello to Jim Crow, 1878-1897
• Up From Slavery: The Self-Help Period, 1898-1919
• The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1946
• The Civil Rights Era, 1947-1968
• The Black Power Movement, 1968-1980
• The Turn of the Century, 1981-2004
• National Parks Service: The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
• List of Sites for the Underground Railroad Travel Itinerary
• Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad
• The Underground Railroad in Indiana
• Underground Railroad site (no longer maintained, but remains online), by Hazel Carrasco and Owen Solberg, (May, 1996).
• Underground Railroad: Indiana Historical & Cultural Trip Ideas
• Underground Railroad Routes, 1860
• NPS: Taking the Train to Freedom - Underground Railroad Special Resource Study, "...It was a clandestine operation that began during the colonial period, later became part of organized abolitionist activity in the 19th century, and reached its peak in the period 1830 - 1865..."
• Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the underground railroad: being a brief history of the labors of a lifetime in behalf of the slave, with the stories of numerous fugitives, who gained their freedom through his instrumentality, and many other incidents.  Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877.  Cincinnati: Western tract society [1876] (online text)
• "Bury Me in a Free Land":  The Abolitionist Movement in Indiana, 1816-1865, by  Gwendolyn J. Crenshaw.
• Afrigeneas
• Lest We Forget, by Bennie J. McRae, Jr. "...The contributors and I offer you the history, culture, preservation efforts, and current events of African-Americans, other ethnic, non-ethnic groups and individuals..."
• African-Americans in Army History
• Smithsonian:  African American History and Culture
• Indiana University: African American Culture Center Library.
• Registry of Negroes and Mulattos, 1853-54, Vigo County, Indiana African American research).
• Asian/Pacific
• Smithsonian:  Asian/Pacific American History and Culture
• English
• Scotish
• Irish
• Learn more about the canal laborers who were predominantly Irish, on Terry Pepper's: Wabash & Erie Canal site.
• French
• Library of Congress: Treasures from the Bibliothèque nationale

de France

• 1608-1759:  New France & Quebec documents
• Fort Quiatenon  (French fort established in 1717)
• Read more: Virtual Museum of New France
• 1688 Map of New France   Definition of New France
• The Explorers
• The Fur Trade in New France (archived on www.archive.org)
• Voyageurs and Hired Men
• The Habitant in New France
• Filles du roi or girls for marrying
• The Seigneurs
• The Soldiers
• Our Ancestors of European Origin: Genealogy
• First Nations
• American-French Genealogical Society

    A.F.G.S. - P.O. Box 830 - Woonsocket, RI  02895-0870

• German
• IUPUI: Max Kade German-American Center
• Shaping the Circle German-Americans in Indianapolis:  1840-1918
• HANNEBAUM - Map of All Links Related To: The Adventures of Indiana Hannebaum! by Harold W. Hannebaum - site by Larry Christensen <LHChristen@aol.com>
• Hamburg : Link to Your Roots - "...The Hamburg Emigration Lists are a data bank which includes the personal data of 5 million people who emigrated via Hamburg from 1850 to 1934..."
• German Name Spellings, by Charles F. Kerchner, Jr.
• 18th Century PA German Naming Customs, by Charles F. Kerchner, Jr.
• Catholic
• Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory
• Jewish
• Jews in Early Indiana by Timothy Crumrin
• National Archives:  Jewish-American History Research
• JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy
• International Jewish Cemetery Project
• American Jewish Historical Society
• Jewish Women's Archive
• JewishEncyclopedia.com
• American Jewish Archives
• Polish
• Polish Genealogical Society of America (Chicago, IL)!
• Hispanic
• Puerto Rican / Hispanic Genealogical Society

   P.O. Box 260118 - Bellerose, NY 11426-0118
   (Miguel J. Hernández - President  Email: miguel_j_hernandez@csi.com)

• Macedonian
• Researching your Macedonian Family : Genealogy Macedonia, by Jill Jugloff - For General Genealogical and History information and Research of Macedonian ancestors.
• Quaker
• A Map of the Locations of the Meetings, Constituting Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1851.  Revised, 1853. (Quaker)

· Earlham Libraries Friends Collection - 801 National Road W. - Richmond, IN 47373
Though located in Richmond, the library includes records and information related to Howard County, IN Quakers and Meetings.

o Index of obituaries and death notices in the American Friend, compiled between 1996 and 1999 by Thomas D. Hamm.

o Indiana Yearly Meeting Archives Index

• Digital Quaker Collection
• Quakers of Richmond and Wayne County, Indiana (history)
• Quaker Electronic Archive
• Quakers in Indiana in the Nineteenth Century, by Sheryl Vanderstel
• Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the underground railroad: being a brief history of the labors of a lifetime in behalf of the slave, with the stories of numerous fugitives, who gained their freedom through his instrumentality, and many other incidents.  Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877.  Cincinnati: Western tract society [1876] (online text)
• The Quaker Corner - A Repository of Resources for research of Quaker Heritage
• Quakerfinder.Org for Indiana present-day meeting locations
• QuakerMeetings.com - Monthly Meetings in North America: A Quaker Index
• Shaker
• Map of the Shaker Sites in the Midwest - including West Union, Indiana, on the Shaker Valley web site.
• Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky has an informative history.
• Spanish
• Nordic Explorers - Norse Expansion into North America
• Swiss Mennonite & German Amish genealogy:
• O.M.I.I. Genealogical Project/Kidron Heritage - "...Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois Genealogy group focusing on mostly Swiss Mennonite descendants..."
• The Poor
• The Poorhouse Story, by Linda Crannell and CCS - a collection of information, by state, which invites submissions to help tell this untold tale - read "Emma's Story" to see the touching story behind the site!!!
• Your suggestions for additional are welcome

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Folklore and Traditions

• THE LOUP-GAROU LEGENDS OF OLD VINCENNES
• Encyclopedia Mythica: Encyclopedia of Mythology, Folklore and Legend

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Genealogy

• Genealogical Standards, Standards For Sound Genealogical Research

  Recommended by the National Genealogical Society.

• Indiana State Department of Health: Where To Get Copies Of Birth And Death Certificates In Indiana

· Indiana State Library.    140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296

o Online Databases

o Indiana Cemetery Locator Database

o Indiana Biography Index (published before 1990)

o Indiana Biography Index (published since 1990)

o Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850.

o Index of Indiana Marriages, 1993 through 2002

o Newspaper Holdings: Holdings by county (in Indianapolis)

o Images of Indiana: 92 Counties // from Adams to Whitley

o Indiana Public Libraries

o WWII Servicemen Database

o Indiana Plat Books

• Vital Information Exchange (VINE)Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory
• Indiana Genealogical Society
• Indiana Historical Society

   450 West Ohio Street - Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
   Phone:  (317) 232-1882,  (800) IHS-1830.

• The Hoosier Genealogist - periodical.
• Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History - periodical.
• Indiana Historical Society: Membership
• Indiana Migrations Project, by Patrick Hays.
• NARA: National Archives and Records Administration
• The Genealogy Page.
• About Census Records
• 1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses Catalog of NARA Microfilm
• 1930 Census Microfilm Locator
• The Soundex Indexing System
• Clues in Census Records, 1790-1840
• Clues in Census Records, 1850-1930
• Indian Census Rolls
• Nonpopulation Census Records
• Prologue, Spring 1996, Vol. 28, No. 1, "First in the Path of the Firemen" The Fate of the 1890 Population Census, by Kellee Blake.
• Native American Records
• Immigration Records and Naturalization Records
• "Any woman who is now or hereafter may be married... Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802-1940", by Marian L. Smith (Prologue, Summer 1998)
• By Way of Canada: U.S. Records of Immigration Across the U.S.-Canadian Border, 1895-1954, By Marian L. Smith (St. Albans Lists) (Fall 2000) — A guide to using immigration records of the U.S.-Canada border.
• Military Records available from the National Archives
• Military Service and Pension Records: Requesting Pre-WWI
• Civil War Records: An Introduction and Invitation, By Michael P. Musick  (Prologue, Summer 1995)
• Women Soldiers of the Civil War, by DeAnne Blanton (Prologue, Spring 1993)
• Sailors, Soldiers, and Marines of the Spanish-American War: The Legacy of USS Maine, By Rebecca Livingston (Prologue, Spring 1998).
• They Answered the Call: Military Service in the United States Army during World War I, 1917-1919  (Prologue, Fall 1998). -- A guide to looking for information about World War I army veterans - By Mitchell Yockelson.
• State-level Lists of Casualties from the Korean Conflict (1951-1957) and the Vietnam Conflict , By Theodore J. Hull, (Prologue, Spring 2000).
• Indian Bounty Land Applications, By Mary Frances Morrow (Prologue,
• American Indians A Select Catalog of NARA Microfilm Publications

Snakes & Scribes: The Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks, By Kent Carter, in "Prologue" (Prologue, Spring 1997)

• Genealogical Fallout from the War of 1812, By Ruth Priest Dixon (Prologue, Spring 1992) - "...The impressment of American seamen by the British was one of the causes of the War of 1812. The practice also resulted in the creation of extensive records about merchant seamen that are of great value to genealogists and historians..."
• Genealogical Records of the War of 1812, By Stuart L. Butler (Prologue, Winter 1991) - "...National Archives records created during and after the War of 1812 offer the genealogist a diverse and fertile ground in which to obtain invaluable family information..."
• Preserving the Legacy of the United States Colored Troops, by Budge Weidman (Prologue, Summer 1997)
• A Guiding Light: Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in the National Archives, By Debra Newman Ham (Prologue, Special Issue, Summer 1997).
• From Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's History in the Civil War Era, By Noralee Frankel (Prologue, Summer 1997)
• Riding the Rails Up Paper Mountain: Researching Railroad Records in the National Archives, By David A. Pfeiffer (Spring 1997).
• Prologue Magazine
• USA - Department of Veterans Affairs.
• The Poorhouse Story, by Linda Crannell and CCS - a collection of information, by state, which invites submissions to help tell this untold tale - read "Emma's Story" to see the touching story behind the site!!!
• Indiana Genealogy Links
• County Clerk's office:  Indiana Clerks of Circuit Court  (Usually the location to obtain marriage licenses and divorce decrees)
• To obtain certified copies of Indiana birth and death records, from 1882 to present, contact the Local County Health Department.  Though the earliest available records may vary by county location, in general, birth and death records were not kept prior to ca. 1882 in Indiana.
• The Indiana State Department of Health can also provide copies of records for births which occured after October 1907, and deaths which occured after 1900.

   Vital Records Department
    Indiana State Department of Health
    2 North Meridian Street
    Indianapolis, IN 46204
    Phone: (317) 233-2700

• Allen County Public Library - holds one of the largest historical genealogy collections in North America.
• Indiana State Library Genealogy Section
• Indiana Commission on Public Records State Archives Division.
• Indiana State: Information Center Home Page.
• About Indiana Communities  :  City and County Facts
• Indiana County Recorders' Offices: Phone number directory.
• AT&T: The Ultimate Directory - City Guide.
• Naturalization Databases - Indiana
• Hoosier Homestead Award Program Hoosier Homestead Awards by County
• Fort Wayne Land Office Entries, 1823-1852
• Archives Land Records Index

· Indiana State Library.    140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296

o Online Databases

o Indiana Cemetery Locator Database

o Indiana Biography Index (published before 1990)

o Indiana Biography Index (published since 1990)

o Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850.

o Index of Indiana Marriages, 1993 through 2000

o Newspaper Holdings: Holdings by county (in Indianapolis)

o Images of Indiana: 92 Counties // from Adams to Whitley

o Indiana Public Libraries

o WWII Servicemen Database

o Indiana Plat Books

o Vital Information Exchange (VINE)

• Cyndi's List for Indiana!
• Kentuckiana Genealogy
• INGenWeb for Indiana by Fred Finkbiner.
• USGen Web Archives for Indiana
• Genealogy Resources on the Internet
• Everton's Genealogy Resources
• Try Genealogy Exchange and Surname Registry
• The Search Beat for Genealogy and Roots
• Bureau of Census on-line USA gazetteer

· Use the query form, at USGS, to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated places, and more.  Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature.  This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.

• Genealogy Resources on the Internet: Mailing Lists by John Fuller and Christine Gaunt.
• Given Names Index, by Mari Lynn Balden.
• Soundex Calculator
• Local Catholic Church History and Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory

• Indiana Research - Professional
• Ann McRoden Mensch, Researching at The Allen County Public Library

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General and Miscellaneous

• Research It!  Tools for Languages, Religion, Postal and Geographical links and information.
• Find It!  Search the Web.
• Stately Knowledge: Facts about the United States - The Internet Public Library - a group effort of the following University of Michigan School of Information Students: Charles Berg, Sara Brodkin, Hillary Corbett, Sonja Daniels, James Duncan, Rachel Erlich, Bernadette Milan, James Morris-Knower.
• Some Emblems of the State of Indiana :
• 50states.com: Official State Songs
• Tapping Officials' Secrets: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press comprehensive guide to open records and meetings laws online.
• The Search Beat ... The One-Stop Web Directory
• Cyndi's List!!!
• Library of Congress American Memory Collection for Indiana
• Library of Congress WPA Life Histories by State
• Military Battles and Campaigns Map Collection of the Library of Congress
• Military History
• The National Parks: History
• Little Miami in Ohio
• Archives of Milestone Events in 18th Century American History (Digital display of original documents)
• Archiving America - (Digital display of historic original 18th Century American documents)
• National Museum of American Art
• U. S. History - A good base for American Revolution
• Documents of Freedom (Columbus' Letter, Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the U. S., Bill of Rights, Monroe Doctrine, etc.)
• Smithsonian:
• Smithsonian: American Social and Cultural History
• Smithsonian: You be the Historian
• Smithsonian: Inventors and Innovations
• Smithsonian: Archival, Manuscript & Special Collections
• Hutchinson Research - Missouri American Indian Archaeology & Mounds History

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Government & Military (See also Wars)

• Native Americans

First Nations
First Nations Histories by Lee Stultzman

Geographic Overview of First Nations Histories

• History of the Ottawa : Lee Sultzman
• History of the Iroquois : Lee Sultzman
• Iroquois : Catholic Encyclopedia history and culture
• Miami History by Lee Sultzman
• French Explorers, Missionaries and Traders
• Read more: Virtual Museum of New France
• 1688 Map of New France   Definition of New France
• The Explorers
• The Fur Trade in New France (archived on www.archive.org)
• Voyageurs and Hired Men
• The Habitant in New France
• Filles du roi or girls for marrying
• The Seigneurs
• The Soldiers
• Our Ancestors of European Origin: Genealogy
• First Nations
• Discoverers Web by Andre Engels
• CanText Library - A collection of original resouces for Canadian Studies
• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Government
• King Philip's War (1675 to 1677)
• 1687 January - Memoir for the Marquis de Seignelay Regarding the Dangers

That Threaten Canada and the Means to Remedy Them

• The Battle of Louisburg in New France (In 1745, the New England Colonials fought to take this capital of the French colony of Ile Royale (northeast of New England)
• Fort Quiatenon (French fort established in 1717) - Tippecanoe County, IN
• The original Compagnies Franches de la Marine (Independent Companies of the Marine) - a history from 1680s of French Presence in North America
• Tippecanoe, "Prophet's Town" and the Battlefield in Tippecanoe County
• French and Indian Wars: an essay (1750s-)
• Indians on the Trans-Appalachian Frontier
• 1763: Treaty of Paris
• 1774: Quebec Act
• The Paris Peace Treaty (1783)
• Evolution of the Territory of Quebec: 1763-1927 by Claude Belanger with MAP
• American Revolution and Transition
• Founding Fathers, Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
• Documents of the Continental Congress & Constitutional Convention (1774-1789)
• "...Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia..."
• George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes, KNOX, IN
• Chronology of the American Revolution & more
• The American Revolution
• NPS: The Shot Heard Round the World
• An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1777):  Thomas Jefferson drafted this bill, in 1777, which first appeared as a broadside, and was later printed in Williamsburg.  "The only known copy of the original broadside belongs to the Boston Public Library."
• Index to The George Rogers Clark Papers: Illinois Regiment - from The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois.
• The Paris Peace Treaty (1783)
• United States
• National

NARA-Charters of Freedom including Declaration of Independence

• USA - Department of Veterans Affairs.

Government Directory by state.

• The Northwest Ordinance, July 13, 1787.
• Northwest Ordinance of 1787, online from the Avalon Project
• The Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787)
• The Virginia Cession
• Treaty of Greenville - 1795 Historical documents
• Treaty of Greenville - Yale Avalon Project
• Territorial
• Vincennes State Historic Sites
• 1803: Lewis and Clark's preparations: Meriwether Lewis was joined by William Clark at Clarksville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky.  See: Discovering Lewis and Clark
• Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838)
• The Lewis and Clark Historic Trail Site (Yankton, ND) which contains portions of  journal entries, timeline,maps and biographies of Lewis & Clark.
• Vincennes, the capital of the Indiana Territory, also served as the capital of the Louisiana Purchase for nine months in 1804.
• Constitution of Indiana (1816)
• Indiana Historical Bureau: Indiana History Documents
• Journal of the Convention of the Indiana Territory - 1816.
• State - Indiana was admitted to the Union, on December 11, 1816, as the 19th state.  The state capitol was Corydon, until 1825, when it was changed to the present capitol of Indianapolis.
• Corydon - Indiana's first state capital
• Corydon was the capital of Indiana from 1816 to 1825
• Indiana's Constitutional Past by Justice Brent E. Dickson
• Constitution of Indiana (1851)
• Indiana Constitution
• Indiana Government Statehouse History and Tour
• Indiana State Information Center
• Access Indiana - Official State Web Site
• State Government
• Public Records access
• Indiana State Archives.

   6440 E. 30th Street - Indianapolis, IN 46219   Phone: (317) 591-5222

• Family History Resources
• ICPR Collections
• Indiana Clerks of the Circuit Court - address list.
• Indiana State Library
• Indiana Historical Bureau

   140 North Senate Avenue
   Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
   Phone: (317) 232-2535

• Indiana State Museum

    202 North Alabama Street
   Indianapolis, IN 46204
   Phone: (317) 232-1637.

• Indiana Government Resources
• Roster of State and Local Officials
• Information about the General Assembly - Legislator Listing.
• Indiana General Assembly
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress - Search
• Indiana Senators
• Indiana Senate Districts Map
• Indiana Congressional Districts
• Indiana House Districts Map
• Indiana Laws and Administrative Rules
• Indiana Administrative Code: Table of Contents includes:
• Local Government Code
• Government of COUNTIES
• TITLE 33: Table of Contents - Courts
• ARTICLE 6. Government of TOWNSHIPS
• ARTICLE 17. CIRCUIT COURT CLERKS - Powers & Duties
• Chapter 17. County Records
• Chapter 11. County Recorder Description of Duties
• County Auditor Description of Duties
• Probate Code
• 1996 Indiana Judicial Decisions - "...a gateway to all opinions of the appellate courts of the State of Indiana...a hypertext version of the Indiana Code, Indiana's statutory law..." Indiana Supreme Court History and more. See Copyright info.
• IU: Law Library
• Indiana Governors portraits and biographies.
• The Political Graveyard, for Indiana, includesIndiana Governors, Indiana: State House of Representatives, and Indiana: Secretaries of State, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site about U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.
• Local
• Indiana: Local
• Indiana County Courts Online
• Association of Indiana Counties
• Official Cities: Indiana
• Indiana Towns-1826 and Indiana Post Offices-1875 on Hoosier Web by Sam Cline
• Indico Net - Indiana Digital County Network.
• Indiana City and County Facts
• Politicians
• The Political Graveyard for Indiana - cemeteries where dead politicians are buried
• Roster of State and Local Officials
• Links to Constitutional Officeholders in Indiana
• Indiana Government Resources
• Wars
• USA History: Wars
• Military Battles and Campaigns
• King Philip's War (1675 to 1677)

The French and Indian Wars

• The original Compagnies Franches de la Marine (Independent Companies of the Marine) - a history from 1680s of French Presence in North America

French and Indian Wars: an essay (1750s-)
French and Indian Wars (18th Century)
The Practice of Scalping During the French and Indian War (1754-1760) By George A. Bray III

The American Revolution

The Battle of Lexington, MA (1775) includes Colonial maps.
George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes, KNOX, IN
Northwest Territory Alliance  with Chronology of the American Revolution
Online Adventures with the American Revolution

• Judge Isaac Naylor's account of an Indiana battle of 1811 - "...When the army arrived in view of Prophet's Town...
• Reference for Isaac Naylor papers, S 1009, with biographical note

The War of 1812

• Key Events & Causes: War of 1812, by Greg D. Feldmeth
• War of 1812 Homepage, by Seth Ferguson.