The Indiana leg from Richmond to Terre Haute IN

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Several parts of my forebears resettled from eastern states to Kansas from about 1870 to 1885. One of them, the Robert Ohnsat family, produced a family anecdote that their journey was by "Conestoga wagon" in 1877. This post follows the likely journey westward through Indiana.

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Indiana

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Wayne County

Richmond
East Haven
Centerville
Pinhook
Hiser
Penville
East Germantown
Cambridge City

• Huddleston Farmhouse Inn Museum 
http://byways.org/explore/byways/10423/places/11764/
• Huddleston family’s farm in Cambridge City  http://www.whitewatercanalscenicbyway.org/huddlestonfarmhouse.htm
• Weary travelers making the difficult trek westward on the National Road in the early 1800s stopped at the Huddleston family’s farm in Cambridge City for meals, provisions, shelter, and to feed and rest their horses  http://www.indianalandmarks.org/historicsitestoursevents/huddlestonhouse/Pages/default.aspx
• Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Huddleston-Farmhouse/107979579223998
• Farmer and lapsed Quaker John Huddleston was worried. A party of emigrants that had stopped at his Wayne County, Indiana, farmhouse the night before had departed at daybreak and left behind bread they had baked in the oven at the Huddleston Farm, which had become a regular stopping point for travelers on the National Road. "Hastily saddling a horse," according to Lee Burns in his history of the National Road in Indiana, "he [Huddleston] followed them with the bread only to discover that their hurried departure had been caused by the fact that they had taken his best set of harness."  http://huddleston.bravepages.com/history/farmhouse.html
• Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Huddleston-Farmhouse-Inn-Museum/117836864944000
• e-mail Joe Frost: jfrost@indianalandmarks.org

Dublin

Henry County

Straughn
Lewisville
Dunreith
Ogden
Raysville
Knightstown

Hancock County

Charlottesville
Cleveland
Westland
Riley
Greenfield
Philadelphia
Gem

Marion County

Cumberland
Washington Place
Irvington
Indianapolis

Mt. Jackson
Sunnyside
Lynnhurst
Ben Davis
Sterling Heights
Bridgeport

Hendricks County

http://books.google.com/books?id=qUbWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA613&lpg=PA613&dq=%22Newlin's+Boarding+House%22+Plainfield&source=bl&ots=MKLRQBBJeL&sig=Rz7q8oBmNDn1LzgthQDOyl6DKCU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TWL7T-f4E6Tj0QHuiYDNBg&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Newlin's%20Boarding%20House%22%20Plainfield&f=false
Plainfield

• Plainfield Historic District http://townofplainfield.com/main/docs/ordinances/200902100804140.Plainfield_NRN_020409_NRHD.pdf
• Van Buren was riding in a carriage when the driver took a sharp turn around the elm, throwing Van Buren out of the carriage and into the mud. [Laughter] And in case you're wondering, the answer is, yes, I've warned the Secret Service to be on the lookout for elms. http://allenbrowne.blogspot.com/2011/04/van-buren-elm.html
• Hendricks County businesses listed in Polk’s Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1884-1885 (Volume III) (Indianapolis: R.L. Polk & Co., 1884). It is NOT a directory of all Hendricks County businesses; it is only a directory of those businesses that paid to be listed.  http://www.hendcogen.org/directories/business_directory_1884_results.php
• Terre Haute: Queen City of the Wabash  http://books.google.com/books?id=EaOr8to39F0C&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=%22Mansion+House%22+Plainfield&source=bl&ots=VGezY2sN4h&sig=BM5BoA5lq57quDudz8A5cYxr52c&hl=en&sa=X&ei=N2P7T8n8B8iC0QHTwdS7Bg&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCDhQ#v=onepage&q=%22Mansion%20House%22%20Plainfield&f=false

Cartersburg
Belleville
Stilesville

Hendricks County history published in 1976, page 127: "Early-day Plainfield had a number of famed inns and hotels serving the National Road, including Fisher's Tavern, Jesse Hockett's hotel, Mrs. Newlin's Boarding House and the Mansion House, founded in 1876.  Isaac Holten operated the Mansion House from 1886 until 1893.  Another hotel, the Worth House, was owned and operated by Ben and Sadie Worth on a site later occupied by the Grimes Hotel."  Page 135 shows a photo of the Stilesville Hotel (also on the National Road west of Plainfield) with several paragraphs of text on it.  Book is for sale from the Hendricks County Museum http://www.hendrickscountyhistoricalmuseum.org/home/our-gift-shop  

The Danville Library http://www.dplindiana.org/genealogyprograms.html and Plainfield Library   http://www.plainfieldlibrary.net/hendricksindiana.html  have very good local history collections.

Putnam County

Mt. Meridian
Westland
Danville
Putnamville
Manhattan
Raab Crossroads
Pleasant Garden
Shady Lane

Clay County

Harmony
Knightsville
Donaldsonville
Greencastle
Cloverdale
Brazil

• The McKinley Inn (1834)? was located east of Brazil, Ind., near the current town of Harmony, on the Rational Road. Presidents Lincoln, Van Buren, and Buchanan lodged there as well as Henry Clay. 
• A historical Clay Co. map: "Nine taverns or inns lined the National Road through Clay County [Ind.] in the 1830s-1860s. Located at 1/2 mile intervals, they offered shelter and food for thousands of settlers pushing west. From east to west they were: James Townsend--Eaglesfield, Preston Morgan--Croy Creek, Mckinnley Inn--Harmony, Hull-Wishard--Brazil, Phillip Hedge's, William Kennedy--Kennedy's Crossing, Scranton-Sullivan--Billtown, La Master Inn, and George Carpenter--Cloverland." The punctuation on the map makes this a bit confusing. 

Bee Ridge
Williamstown / Billtown
Overland / Cloverland

 

Vigo County

Seelyville
East Glenn
Terre Haute

• Terre Haute: Queen City of the Wabash  http://books.google.com/books?id=EaOr8to39F0C&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=%22Mansion+House%22+Plainfield&source=bl&ots=VGezY2sN4h&sig=BM5BoA5lq57quDudz8A5cYxr52c&hl=en&sa=X&ei=N2P7T8n8B8iC0QHTwdS7Bg&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCDhQ#v=onepage&q=%22Mansion%20House%22%20Plainfield&f=false

West Terre Haute / Macksville
Toadhop
Ligett

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