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1. CORYSH_081011_014.JPG: Governor's Headquarters: Home of Governor William Hendricks 1822-1825 while he was Governor of Indiana. Front room was Governor's Headquarters. Hendricks was also Secretary of Constitutional Convention. House was built 1817 by Davis Floyd, Territorial Auditor and Treasurer and member of Constitutional Convention. Floyd had been convicted 1806 of aiding Aaron Burr. House purchase 1841 by Judge William A. Porter, noted lawyer, judge, and staunch Whig leader who served many terms in State Legislature and was Speaker of House 1849. The home since 1841 of Judge Porter and descendants.
2. CORYSH_081011_017.JPG: Governor's Headquarters Home of Governor William Hendricks 1822-1825 while he was Governor of Indiana. Front room was Governor's Headquarters. Hendricks was also Secretary of Constitutional Convention. House was built 1817 by Davis Floyd, Territorial Auditor and Treasurer and member of Constitutional Convention. Floyd had been convicted 1806 of aiding Aaron Burr. House purchased 1841 by Judge William A. Porter, noted lawyer, judge, and staunch Whig leader who served many terms in State Legislature and was Speaker of House 1849. The home since 1841 of Judge Porter and descendants.
3. CORYSH_081011_020.JPG: First State Office Building: Built 1817. Housed officers of State Treasurer and Auditor until fall of 1824. The cellar was the treasury vault. Building used by Harrison County Seminary, 1829-51. Since 1871, home of Amzi Brewster heirs.
4. CORYSH_081011_028.JPG: First State Office Building
5. CORYSH_081011_037.JPG: Coburn-Porter Law Office
6. CORYSH_081011_092.JPG: The governor's living room. The guide explained that the modern casket was there because they were doing haunted house things in the event for Halloween.
7. CORYSH_081011_246.JPG: Coburn-Porter Law Office Henry P. Coburn & William A. Porter: Henry P. Coburn built the office in 1819 while he was serving as the second Clerk of the Indiana State Supreme Court. A graduate of Harvard University, Coburn continued his service as Clark, moving along with the capital to Indianapolis in late 1824. From 1824 to 1837, William Porter rented the office from Coburn for $28.00 a year. Coburn deeded the office to Porter in 1837, who used it until his death in 1884. Upon graduating from Miami University in 1827, William Porter came to Corydon to teach at Harrison County Seminary. Admitted to the bar in 1829, Porter became a Probate Judge in 1831. Porter, a Whig, began his political career in 1836 with his election to the Indiana House of Representatives. Aside from serving as a State Representative twice, including Speaker of the House, Porter also served as Prosecuting Attorney for the 2nd Judicial District of Indiana, State Senator, and Judge of the Harrison Circuit Court. Thought he did not pursue a teaching career, Porter is believed to have made his most lasting impression on the young students that "read" the law under him over the years. He also conducted various other classes in his office for his daughters and other youth of Corydon. Is this the original office? No. This structure is a simulation. Built in 1819, the original office stood facing Walnut Street where the Wright Interpretive Center now stands. The Frederick P. Griffin family razed it in 1963 to make room for a new garage and back porch for their residence. The reconstruction project began with an archeological survey in the spring of 2003. Under the direction of the State Historic Sites Restoration Facility, construction began in August of 2003 and the site opened to the public approximately a year later. Tim and Fred Griffin, Judge William Porter's great-grandsons, made an accurate reconstruction possible through their generosity, research and documentation of the original office, including vintage photographs. in fact, several items taken out of the original office are often on display at the site.
8. CORYSH_081011_280.JPG: The original state capital building
9. CORYSH_081011_313.JPG: Indiana Capital: The capital of Indiana Territory was moved to Corydon from Vincennes, 1813. This building became first State Capital, 1816. Offices were moved to Indianapolis in 1825.
10. CORYSH_081011_317.JPG: A chunk of the original constitutional elm tree
11. CORYSH_081011_329.JPG: This was the weathervane that had been atop the building
12. CORYSH_081011_395.JPG: First State Capital: Corydon became the first state capital of Indiana in 1816. The first constitution was drawn up and the first sessions of the state legislature and supreme court convened here.
13. CORYSH_081011_404.JPG: Earlier this same day, a new tree had been planted here in front of the State Office Building. It was a commemorative tree.
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Wikipedia Description: Corydon Historic District
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The Corydon Historic District of Corydon, Indiana, United States, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also known as Indiana's First State Capital and as Historic Corydon. In 1973, the district comprised the old statehouse and the square around, and in 1989, it was extended so that it extends to Indian Creek in the north and west, College Avenue in the east, and Little Indian Creek to the south. Eight buildings within the district were standing when Corydon was the capital of Indiana.

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The centerpiece of the district is a two-story Federal-style limestone building that was once the capital of Indiana from 1816-1825, and is now the Corydon Capital State Historic Site. It was originally intended to double as the county courthouse; the county would occasionally use the capitol when the state government was not in session.

Next to the old capitol is the Harrison County Courthouse. Between the two buildings, historical markers denote John Hunt Morgan's capture of the town in July 1863. It sees 30,000 visitors every year. Protected by a sandstone memorial is the Constitution Elm. In 1816 the trunk was five feet across, with branches spreading out 132 feet (40 m). Due to the heat of the capitol building, much of the deliberations for creating the Indiana state government and the writing of the constitution was under its branches. Dutch elm disease destroyed the tree in 1925, leaving only the trunk. The First State Office Building is located directly east of the Governor's Headquarters on Walnut Street. The Historic Sites administration in Indianapolis has delayed the renovation of this building for over ten years.

On May 22, 2007, plans were announced to build a memorial to late Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon on the southwest corner of the courthouse square, which is 20 feet (6.1 m) by 20 feet (6.1 m) and have a life-sized likeness of O'Bannon in bronze on a limes ...More...
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2008 photos: Trips this year: (1) Civil War Preservation Trust annual conference in Springfield, Missouri , (2) a week in New York, (3) a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con, (4) a driving trip to St. Louis, and (5) a visit to dad and Dixie's in Asheville, North Carolina. Ego strokes: A picture I'd taken last year during a Friends of the Homeless event was published in USA Today with a photo credit and everything! I became a volunteer photographer with the AFI/Silver theater. Equipment this year: I was using three cameras -- the Fuji S9000 and the Canon Rebel Xti from last year, and a new camera, the Fuji S100fs. The first two cameras had their pluses and minuses and I really didn't have a single camera that I thought I could use for just about everything. But I loved the S100fs and used it almost exclusively this year. Number of photos taken this year: 330,000.
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