Sample ChapterIndiana’s Timeless Tales – 1805 – 1811Chapter title – July 15, 1805 – Buffalo Trace Surveyed July 15, 1805 … Continue reading Sample Chapter – July 15, 1805 – Buffalo Trace Surveyed
The conflict between the American Indian tribes in the Indiana Territory increased in the years leading up to the War of 1812. The three dominant personalities, William Henry Harrison, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, the Prophet, came to a head at the November 7, 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe. Continue reading Indiana’s Timeless Tales – 1805 – 1811
George Rogers Clark Memorial
In this podcast the author visits the southwestern Indiana city, Vincennes where we will visit an important national memorial to George Rogers Clark. It was Clark’s exploits during the early phases of the Revolutionary War that ensured that the vast territory now composed of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin was added to the fledgling United States at the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended America’s struggle for independence.
George Rogers Clark
George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818)
John Clark and Ann Rogers Clark produced the second of their ten children on November 19, 1752. George Rogers Clark entered the world near Charlottesville, Virginia on the frontier. The family moved away from the frontier after the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754. Their new home was a 400-acre plantation that John Clark eventually increased to 2000 acres. His parents sent him to his grandfather’s home so he could attend Donald Robertson’s school. This famous school also educated James Madison and John Taylor, who attended at the same time as George Rogers Clark. His grandfather taught him how to survey land. At twenty, George joined a surveying team that traveled into Kentucky, which was part of Virginia at the time. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix had opened Kentucky to settlement and new settlers were flooding into the area. The Iroquois had signed the treaty had, but the various tribes that made up the rest of the area did not. British Lieutenant-Governor Henry Hamilton encouraged the Amerindian tribes to raid American settlements in Kentucky. Clark headed up defensive attacks against these tribes. On October 1, 1777, Clark departed Kentucky to travel to Virginia to request permission to undertake a daring mission against the British outposts at Vincennes, Kaskaskia and Cahokia.
Clark Captures Fort Sackville
The expedition headed by George Rogers Clark captured Fort Sackville from the British on February 24, 1779 after a grueling, frigid mid winter march through prairie and a waterlogged landscape.
George Rogers Clark Legacy
The capture ensured Clark’s legacy as the “Conqueror of the Old Northwest”. The conquest ensured that the huge swath of land between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers would be controlled by the United States at the end of the Revolutionary War.
George Rogers Clark Memorial Murals
The George Rogers Clark Memorial features a series of murals depicting the story of Clark’s conquest. Continue reading Podcast – Indiana Road Trip – George Rogers Clark Memorial
September 11, 1804 – Election to Decide Second Stage
The election took place for the Indiana Territory to enter the second stage of Territorial government on September 11, 1804. The only county that did not vote was Wayne County in current Michigan. As it appeared that a majority of freeholders in that county favored Continue reading Sample Chapter – Election to Decide Second Stage
Moravian and Quaker missionaries made extensive attempts to teach Native Americans in the science of agriculture. In this volume of Indiana’s Timeless Tales readers will discover the history of these attempts as well as the importance of the fur industry in early Indiana. During this historical time William Clark and Meriwether Lewis began their historic mission as the Corps of Discovery departed from George Rogers Clark’s cabin in Clarksville, Indiana. Continue reading Indiana’s Timeless Tales – 1800 – 1804
A Timeline of Indiana History – 1795 – 1800 covers the years between the signing of the Greenville Treaty. This treaty with the Native Americans defined the line beyond which pioneer settlement could not take place. Continue reading A Timeline of Indiana History – 1795 – 1800
January 1795 – Native Leaders Gather at Fort Greenville
Sometime in mid to late January three influential Miami chiefs, including Pinšiwa or Jean Baptiste Richardville, and Blue Jacket, arrived at Fort Greenville to discuss peace terms. Continue reading Sample Chapter – Native Leaders Gather at Fort Greenville
in this episode of Indiana’s Timeless Tales the French establish a trading post and fort they called Fort Miamis in 1715 at the site of current day Fort Wayne, Indiana. Continue reading Podcast – French Establish Fort Miamis – 1715
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In early 1792, the region that would become Indiana consisted of land claimed by the various Indian tribes that lived in the dense forests, swamps and prairies, traveling and using the fishes of the rivers and streams as a valuable food source. Continue reading Sample Chapter – Early Indiana
Explore Indiana’s early history using this journal of history stories from the beginning days of the Northwest Territory. Indiana’s Timeless Tales – 1782 – 1791 is a time line of early events that shaped Indiana today. Continue reading Indiana’s Timeless Tales – 1782 – 1791
After a legal tug of war and many compromises, Virginia ceded the lands that became the Northwest Territory to the United States. The struggle had imperiled the ratification of the Articles of Confederation and threatened to turn the newly independent colonies into a struggle for land and power. Because of the cession, Maryland became the thirteenth state to ratify the Confederation and set the stage for Congress to form the Northwest Territory and eventual admittance of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota as states on equal footing with the original thirteen states. Continue reading Sample Chapter Virginia Cedes Claim to Virginia Territory to United States
Discover Indiana’s early history as it unfolds from pre-history until the beginning of the American experiment. Indiana’s Timeless Tales – Pre-History to 1781 presents the unfolding saga of Indiana’s fascinating history in an easy to follow time line. Readers of this historical journal will learn about the native Americans that inhabited early Indiana as well as the geological events that shaped the state. Continue reading Indiana’s Timeless Tales – Pre-History to 1781
Sample ChapterIndiana’s Timeless Tales – Pre-History to 1781Chapter title – Illinoisan Glacier BoundaryIllinoisan Glacier BoundaryVisitors to Washington County on south … Continue reading Sample Chapter – Illinoisan Glacier Boundary
French Establish Vincennes on the Wabash River – 1732 Continue reading Podcast – French Establish Vincennes on the Wabash River – 1732
In this episode the author relates a bit about the Delaware, or Lenape, tribe in Indiana Continue reading Podcast – Episode 7 – The Delaware Tribe in Indiana
Native Tribes of Indiana – The Kickapoos in Indiana Episode 6Description:In this episode the author relates a bit about the … Continue reading Podcast – Native Tribes of Indiana – The Kickapoos in Indiana
Native Tribes of Indiana – The Potawatomi Tribe in IndianaDescription: In this episode the author relates a bit about the … Continue reading Podcast – Native Tribes of Indiana – The Potawatomi Tribe in Indiana
At the time of settlement, vast hardwood forests covered most of Indiana. More than eighty-five species of trees live in the state. Trees like white oak, sugar maple, white ash, American beech, sycamore, red oak, yellow poplar and black cherry grew to a huge size. Many have said that a squirrel could have traveled from Ohio to the Illinois prairies without ever touching the ground.
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Glaciers, and the resulting ice water melt off, carved Indiana’s terrain. Episode 1 of the book Indiana’s Timeless Tales – Pre-History to 1781 reveals this process to listeners Continue reading Podcast – Glaciers Batter Indiana into Shape
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