Indiana Centennial Card No. 15
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Series 1. No. 15 Under Three FlagsM. R. Hyman, Publishers. IndianapolisFrance 1682-1763 England 1763-1779Indiana Centennial Souvenir 1816-1916The territory which is now included within the present boundaries of Indiana was formerly owned by the Miami Confederacy of Indians. It was first explored by La Salle in the latter part of the seventeenth century, about 1670, when he is said to have descended the Ohio river as far as the Louisville rapids.It was under the domination of France from the time of the discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi by La Salle, in 1682, until 1763, when it was ceded to Great Britain after the French and Indian war. From 1763 to 1779, it was held nominally by Great Britain as part of her colonial possessions in North America and the jurisdiction of the State of Virginia was formally extended over it from 1779 to 1784.In 1778, during the Revolution, Vincennes and Kaskaskia were captured from the British by a force of Virginians under George Rogers Clark and later In the same year the region northwest of the Ohio was made the county of Illinois by the Virginia Legislature.In 1783, the British claims to all territory east of the Mississippi and north of Florida were relinquished in favor of the United States. The States which claimed title to lands northwest of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi ceded their rights to the United States before 1787, and in that year this region was organized as the Northwest Territory. Indiana Territory was organized in 1800 and Indiana in 1816.Adapted from Cottman-Hyman Centennial History of Indiana. Copyrighted 1916.Indiana Centennial Historic Mailing Card 1816-1916 |
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| Origin: | 1916 |
| Publisher: |
M. R. Hyman |
| Source: |
http://michianamemory.sjcpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16827coll7/id/467 |
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Postcards |
| Copyright: |
This item is in the public domain. For more information, contact local.history@sjcpl.org. |
| Subjects: |
Indiana--History Indiana--Centennial Celebrations, etc. |
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