1790–1820 Early Indiana
Indiana’s story began with the arrival of hardy frontiersmen in the 1790s, including Squire Boon, who hid from natives in the caves he would later be buried in: Squire Boone Caverns.
Pioneer farmers began to make their mark in the decades that followed as celebrated by the reconstructed village at Spring Mill State Park. A general store from the era also survives at Story.
The War of 1812 disrupted things briefly and is remembered by War of 1812 reenactments and the George Rogers Clark Memorial at Vincennes. But mostly this was an era of modest but steadily growing prosperity as the presidential mansion Grouseland built in this era suggests.