At Freedom's Gate: African Americans Settling in Clark County
Overlooking the Ohio River, the lands that became Clark County, Indiana were home to wetlands and forests that Natives of the Cahokia, Michigamea, Kaskaskia, a…
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Guinea Bottom: The Earliest Black Settlement in Jeffersonville Townshiplocation_fillFalls of the Ohio State Park’s George Rogers Clark Homesite in Clarksville, Indiana is located near what was G…
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Yorklocation_fillYou are standing next to the Lewis and Clark Handshake statue by sculptor Carol Grende. The sculpture and the … -
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Obediah Bucknerlocation_fillThe Jeffersonville Township Public Library occupies the space that was once Jeffersonville’s train railroad sw… -
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The 1871 Lynching of Three Black Men in Clark Countylocation_fillAt Charlestown Cemetery in Clark County the mutilated bodies of three lynched men are buried. On a Saturday … -
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The Dinningslocation_fillYou are standing before the site of one of the homes inhabited by George and Mollie Dinning and their children… -
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Taylor High Schoollocation_fillYou are standing near an old red brick building. This is what remains of Taylor High School, a remnant of the … -
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African American Churches in Jeffersonville, Indianalocation_fillBefore you, stands one of Clark County’s historic African American churches, Bethel African Methodist Episcopa…
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