In Nashville, Indiana, www.browncounty.com/listings/pioneer-village/ offers a peek into the past in this rural outpost that was a far piece from anywhere 200 years ago. The actual office and medical equipment of an 1898 horse and buggy doctor who for some reason had a huge stuffed bird suspended over his examination chair, two-story log cabin jail, and working blacksmith shop.

In Rockport, on the Ohio River, lincolnpioneervillage.com/, a collection of log cabins showcase the lives of people who lived here in Abraham Lincoln’s time.

It was an era of stagecoaches for which the well-preserved inn Stone's Trace was built. And it was around the 1840s when things really began to boom here as agriculture took off Huddleston Farm and The Barns of Nappanee provides glimpses of this era in which many Mills operated and Covered Bridges were built to connect communities. This was also a time when settlements like New Harmony, Madison and Noblesville flourished.