Tourist's Guide to Historic Vincennes Booklet, c. 1970
(5 x 7 1/4 In) This is an original vintage The Vincennes Fortnightly Club booklet from 1970. "Tourist's Guide to Historic Vincennes" Indiana is 40-pages long and contains a sort of Self Guided tour of Vincennes. Topics Include:
The Old Post Trail
The Place of Vincennes in American History
George Rogers Clark Memorial: (Kentucky: Entering the Great Valley; Cahokia Peace or War with the Indians; The Wabash: Through Wilderness and Flood; Vincennes: The British Barrier to the West; Fort Sackville: Britain Yields Possession; Marietta: The Northwest a New Territory; St. Louis: The Way Opened to the Pacific.
The Lincoln Memorial Bridge
The Old French Cemetery
The Cathedral
The Old Cathedral Library
Chapel Used By Students of the College of Vincennes and St. Clare's Convent
Map of Vincennes
Where the Women of Vincennes Served Meals to the Soldiers of Col. Clark
Site of the Supposed Home of Alice of Old Vincennes
Early French Houses
Site of the Home of Madame Godare, the Betsy Ross of the Northwest Territory
Route of Clark's Advance on Vincennes
The Grave of Col. Francis Vigo
The Grave of General Washington Johnston
The Bonner-Allen Mansion
The Niblack Residence
Home of Vincennes Masonic Lodge No. 1
The Knox County Courthouse and Soldier's Monument
Sugar Loaf Mound
St. Rose Academy
Fort Knox
Replica of Elihu Stout's Printing Office
First Capitol of Indiana Territory
The William Henry Harrison Mansion
Vincennes University
The Old Ellis Mansion
Site of the Home of Col. Francis Vigo
The Old State Bank
The Lincoln Monument
Francis Vigo
Father Gibault
William Henry Harrison
Tecumseh
The booklet is in VERY GOOD condition, wear at the edges, blunted corner tips, a few small stains on cover, writing on some pages.
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