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Posey County was the site of the largest recorded lynching of African Americans in Indiana's history. In October 1878, a white mob lynched seven black men in the span of a few days. No one in the mob was prosecuted, and at each court session for the next three years, the prosecutor asked the judge to "set the case over to the next session".
Location of Posey County in Indiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Posey County, Indiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Posey County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Posey County, Indiana is located in the southwestern corner of the state, wedged between the Wabash River and Illinois to the west and the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south. On October 11, 1878, Jim Good, Jeff Hopkins, Ed Warner, William Chambers, and Dan Harris, Sr. were lynched in Posey County, Indiana, near the town of Mount Vernon. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Posey County, Indiana, United States by the Indiana Historical Bureau. The locations of the historical markers and their latitude and longitude coordinates are included below when available, along with their names, years of placement, and topics as ...
Mount Vernon is the county seat and largest city in Posey County, named for General Thomas Posey, Governor of the Indiana Territory. He grew up at a plantation adjacent to George Washington's Mount Vernon. He was widely rumored to be Washington's illegitimate son, but this was dismissed by Posey's biographer, John Thornton Posey, a descendant. [5]
The Mount Vernon Site, also known as the GE Mound, is a Hopewell site near Mount Vernon in southwest Indiana. The site was discovered and mostly destroyed in 1988 during road construction at a General Electric plastic manufacturing facility.
New Harmony is a historic town on the Wabash River in Harmony Township, Posey County, Indiana. [1] It lies 15 miles (24 km) north of Mount Vernon, the county seat, and is part of the Evansville metropolitan area. The town's population was 690 at the 2020 census.
Mount Vernon Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana.The district encompasses 39 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 1 contributing structure, and 2 contributing objects in the central business district of Mount Vernon.