Post Roads in Southern Indiana
1934; Indiana University Press; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1942-9711
Autores Tópico(s)Archaeology and Natural History
ResumoA study of the routes of the old post roads as established by Congress through southern Indiana up to 1825 will shed a considerable amount of light on the course taken by pioneer travel during the period when this part of the state was be ing colonized by immigrants from the South and the East. To the year 1805, only three post offices1 had been estab lished in that part of the Indiana Territory which now cor responds to the state. However, during the next twenty years, Congress established fifty-seven different post routes which, served by post riders on horseback carrying the mail in saddle bags and by two and four-horse stages and wagons, furnished the transportation for the postal service until the coming of the railroads. The Eleventh Congress, on April 28, 1810, approved three routes for Indiana: one from Louisville, Kentucky, by Jeffersonville, Clarksville, Corydon and Vincennes to the United States' Saline ; another from North Bend, Ohio by Lawrenceburg to Port William, Kentucky ;2 a third from Vin cennes, Indiana Territory, by Kaskaskia, Prairies du Rochers and Cahokia to St. Louis.3 During the Twelfth Congress, two additional routes were approved on May 11, 1812. One ran from Lawrenceburg through Madison and Charlestown to Jeffersonville, and the second from Lawrenceburg by Franklin court-house4 to Wayne court-house.5 During the Thirteenth Congress, an Act approved on April 18, 1814, discontinued the road from Jeffersonville by way of Clarksville to Vincennes, and established three new roads: from Eaton, Ohio, to Salisbury Indiana; from Wash ington Court-house6 to Vallonia, and from Charlestown to
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