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This short
REFERENCE PAGE is designed to provide no more than a 'glimpse' of
the history of Connecticut,
with a couple of examples of antiquarian maps and engravings of
the State and some interesting Links.
This Page is provided as a REFERENCE
RESOURCE - it is NOT an Inventory.
Genuine original antiquarian maps and
authentic historical engravings, printed at the dates stated.
We do NOT deal in modern reproductions.
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STATE OF INDIANA
The article below was written in 1885 and makes interesting reading.
Topography: The surface of Indiana is extremely level, and it has no mountains or even hills of any size. At least two-thirds of the State consists of level or undulating land, and it is only along the river valleys that the landscape is diversified and relieved by bluffs and hills.
Along the Ohio, which forms the southern boundary of the State, these hills attain a height of 200 to 300 feet. The land slopes gradually from north and northeast to the southwest, and the lowest point is found at the mouth of the Wabash. The rivers mostly run southwest and empty into the Ohio.
The Wabash, Kankakee, White, Maumee and other less important streams furnish an ample supply of water power. The State has a shore line of forty miles on Lake Michigan. The country near the lake is sandy and low, except at Michigan City, where there are extensive hills of sand.
Climate: The climate is somewhat variable, especially in the winter, when the winds are from the north and northwest.
The mean temperature of the year is 52º; that of winter, 31º; spring, 51º; summer, 76º; and autumn, 55º; and the average rainfall is about thirty-eight inches.
Indiana is well suited for agriculture, and the fruit trees blossom in March and the beginning of April.
History: The State of Indiana was admitted into the Union on Dec. 11, 1816, and was the sixth State to come in under the Federal constitution. The earliest settlements were made in 1702, by French Canadians at Fort St. Vincents, now Vincennes, and other river points. The country was nominally under the French rule until 1763, when it passed under the control of the British.
In 1776 Col. George Rogers Clarke, at the head of a body of Virginia volunteers, captured the fort of Vincennes, and for several years following Virginia claimed juristiction. That State ceded her western and northwestern possessions, including Indiana, to the United States in 1783, and four years later they were organized as the "Northwest Territory."
The settlements were greatly disturbed by Indian wars during 1788-91, and in the latter year Gen. Wilkinson and Gen. Anthony Wayne defeated the confederated tribes and compelled them to submit. A treaty was made at Greenville in 1795, by virtue of which the United States came into possession of a large quantity of valuable land, and from this time the settlements were pushed vigorously.
Ohio was cut off from the Territory in May, 1800, when all the country west and north was included in the new "Territory of Indiana." Michigan was set off as a separate Territory in 1805, and Illinois in 1809, leaving Indiana with its present boundaries.
A destructive and general war broke out in 1811, when Tecumseh, Chief of the Shawnees, ravaged the country. Gen. William Henry Harrison, then governor, took command of a few regulars and some militia, and defeated Tecumseh with great slaughter on the historic battle-ground of Tippercanoe. This virtually ended the In-dian hostilities until the war of 1812-15, after which date the settlers were no longer molested by the Indians.
The Territorial legislature petitioned Congress in 1815 for admission to the Union; a State constitution was adopted June 29, 1816 and the State was admitted on December 11 of that year. From this date immigration increased rapidly, and in 1830 it was 343,031. The population doubled between 1830 and 1840, and doubled again in next twenty years.
A new constitution was adopted in 1851; an attempt to revise it in 1859 failed. In March, 1881, amendments were adopted. Indiana contributed five regiments to the Federal forces during the Mexican war. When the Civil war began, in April, 1861, the volunteering was general, and 30,000 men offered for three-months service.
Only six regiments could be accepted, and these were numbered from the sixth to the eleventh infantry inclusive. An Arsenal was established at Indianapolis, from which large quantities of munitions of war were issued.
The total number of regiments raised was ninety-eight of infantry and cavalry and twenty-seven batteries of artillery, numbering in all 196,363 officers and men.
Population: Census of 1880: Males, 1,010,361; Females. 967,940; Native, 1,834,123; Foreign, 144,178; White, 1,938,798; Colored, 39,503, including 29 Chinese and 246 Indians and Half-breeds.
ANTIQUARIAN MAP OF INDIANA
Published by Johnson. 1865
INTERESTING LINKS
OTHER POSTAPRINT US STATES FEATURE PAGES
Indiana State Museum and Historic sites
Contributions and suggestions for additional links would be most welcome.
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