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Harrison County

Harrison.jpgEst. 1808
(William Henry Harrison)

Nestled in Harrison County’s wooded hills and pastures, Corydon reserves significant importance in Indiana’s history. The city served as capital of the Indiana Territory and then as first Indiana state capital. In 1863, John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate cavalry fought the citizens of Corydon in the only Civil War battle waged west of the Alleghenies and north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and the Prophet came to present-day Muncie around 1805 to organize a hostile Native American confederacy.
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