Places to Visit in Indiana

The George Rogers Clark Home Site is a 7-acre tract of land that makes up part of the Falls of the Ohio State Park. George Rogers Clark, a revolutionary war general, the town’s founder, and William Clark’s older brother, built his home here in 1803 as a place to spend his retirement years.

The Falls of the Ohio, outside Louisville, are the only major hydrological impediment to navigation of the Ohio River. This is where Meriwether Lewis and William Clark met up in 1803 to begin their combined journey west.

William Clark recruited many members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Kentucky. One of these ten men from Kentucky was York, the Black man enslaved by Clark.

Established in 1968, the Ohio County Historical Society opened the Rising Sun History Museum in 1972. Housed in a 19th century plow factory, most of the contents have been donated by Ohio County residents, their families, and friends. Displays focus on the 1800′s and early 20th century life and events. Included in the displays is an AUTO-HARP, the first coin-operated music player.

Founded in 1853, Oak Hill Cemetery has a historic 175-acre cemetery within the City of Evansville with more than 70,000 interments. Perhaps the most hallowed ground in the Cemetery was the interment sections which contained the remains of soldiers who died in battle or in Evansville hospitals from battle-incurred wounds during the Civil War. The remains of 500 Union men, 24 Confederate soldiers and 98 local dead were buried in three separate sections—all victims of Civil War

Carry-out lunch at one of our Downtown eateries and dine at Rising Sun’s Riverfront Park. Picnic tables provided as well as ampitheater seating that overlooks the beautiful Ohio River. Watch the boats and barges go by or you may just get a glimpse of our local seaplane service taking off along the riverfront!

Located on the banks of the Ohio River near Evansville, IN, the Angel Mounds State Historic Site boasts a unique combination of nature, history, and archeological wonders sure to entertain all visitors. From 1000-1450 A.D., the area was the site of a Middle Mississippian culture town where the cultivation and storage of corn allowed a permanent community to persist.

Across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky, you can view one of the largest Devonian fossil beds in the world preserved in a 1404-acre National Wildlife Conservation Area. In October of 1803, Meriwether Lewis stopped here to meet William Clark who was staying with his brother, George Rogers Clark.

In June of 1778, William Clark’s older brother, George Rogers Clark, led a military expedition against British garrisons in the Old Northwest. His forces captured Kaskaskia (Illinois), several smaller forts, and Fort Sackville at Vincennes (Indiana). In 1803 George Roger Clark moved to a 1000 acre town that became known as Clarksville, Indiana. After the town failed to thrive, he moved back to Locust Grove, Kentucky in 1809.