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But Americus did avoid a total Jonah's-gourd fate with the advent of the motor car and the 1920s paving of the state highway numbered "Indiana 25" between Lafayette and Delphi.
In 1825, the county of Tippecanoe was also established, with Lafayette selected to be the county seat. To propel Tippecanoe County forward, better transportation systems were needed. This infrastructure would help the growth of the County’s agriculture and industry. Construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal began in Fort Wayne in the summer ...
Cincinnati was known far and wide as the undisputed “Queen City of the West,” but not to be outdone, there began to be heard as early as the 1830s rival claims of Lafayette as the “Star City of the West,” and, brash or not, Indiana was the West when this claim first rose aloft and Lafayette-ians strove mightily to give permanence to their brags about its superiority to any other town.
Lafayette (/ ˌ l ɑː f i ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l æ f-/ LA(H)F-ee-ET) is a city in and is the county seat of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, [4] [5] located 63 miles (101 km) northwest of Indianapolis and 125 miles (201 km) southeast of Chicago.
(2) “Professor Allen, of Lafayette.” Lafayette Journal in Indianapolis Journal, February 19, 1868, p.1. (3) First Annual Catalogue of Lafayette Collegiate Institute for 1864-65. Lafayette, Indiana: Jas.P. Luse and Co., 1865. Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Indiana, p.15. (4) Circular for 1867-8 of the Lafayette Collegiate Institute ...
Nov 6, 2016 · The first Indiana State Fair opens at Military Park. October 21, 1794 The U.S. Army moves into a new stockade fort named for General Anthony Wayne. It grows to become Indiana’s second largest city. October 22, 1840 Mother Theodore begins organization of St. Mary of the Woods College. October 23, 1826
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Mar 13, 2023 · Industrialist John Purdue committed $150,000 to Tippecanoe County’s successful bid to become the site of Indiana’s land-grant university. On May 6, 1869, the Indiana General Assembly officially established the new institution, calling it Purdue University. (Purdue University photo)
