Terre Haute - A history and a guide
This is my history and guide to my adopted home - Terre Haute, Indiana.
Old Postcards - 14
More postcards from my collection...
Vigo County Court House
This unused postcard has no other printed text.
Vigo County Court House
This unused postcard has the printed text...
1140
Publ. by Ill. Post Card Co., New York
Herz's Bazaar - thirty-five years old - better than ever
Vigo County Court House
This unused postcard has no other printed text. I have another copy of this card post stamped in Terre Haute on June 3rd, 1910.
Vigo County Court House
This used postcard, I can't read the stamp date, has the following printed text...
Made expressly for S. H. Knox & Co.
Germany
Vigo County Court House, at night, Terre Haute, Ind.
This unreadable stamped postcard has the text...
1439
The Valentine Souvenir Co., New York
Printed in the U.S.A.
Vigo County Court House, Terre Haute, Ind.
This postcard has the text...
12174
Published expressly for S. H. Knox & Co.
Made in U.S.A.
The following two images are found on the same postcard, one above the other.
Vigo County Court House
City Hall
This unused, linen faced postcard has the following printed text...
1B - H867
Genuine Curteich-Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" Post Card (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.)
Vigo County Court House
This unused postcard has the following printed text...
103297
K
Pub. by Floyd Mitchell, Bridgeton, Ind. 47836
Photo by Mitchell
Vigo County Court House, Terre Haute, Ind. Built 1884-85 using Indiana limestone. 190 feet to top of dome. Belfry bell donated by Col. Frances Vigo.
Soldiers & Sailors Monument
This postcard, posted in Terre Haute on May 17th, 1910, has the following printed text...
Published by G.A.R. Committee, Terre Haute, Ind.
GAR was the Grand Army of the Republic which consisted of Union veterans of the Civil War. Interestingly, this card is post-stamped a week before the actual dedication of the monument.
Soldiers & Sailors Monument
This unused postcard has the following printed text...
#27
165315
Historical Collectors Series
Exclusive Project by the House of Photography
Robert W. Harvey with the help of Dorothy J. Clark, Local Historian
Soldiers & Sailors Monument, northeast corner of Vigo County Court House Square, dedicated May 25, 1910 to memory of Civil War veterans.
Soldiers & Sailors Monument
This postcard, stamped in Edwards, Indiana on May 6th, the year is unreadable but the card has a handwritten date of May 5th, 1911, has the following printed text...
A-9973
Published expressly for S. H. Knox & Co.
Made in U.S.A.
Vigo County was formed in 1818 and Terre Haute named as county seat in the same year. The court house, with its copper dome, was designed in Beaux Arts style by Samuel Hannaford of Cincinnati and completed in 1888. The estate of Colonel Francis Vigo, who supported General George Rogers Clark in the fight against the British, gave a $500 donation to purchase the bell that sits in the tower. This is the third Vigo County Courthouse.
The Soldiers and Sailors Civil War monument, erected in 1910 on the northeast corner of Court Square, was sculpted by Rudolph Schwarz, who is also known for his sculptures on the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis.
The new federally funded City Hall was built at 17 Harding Avenue. Designed by Miller and Yeager the cornerstone was laid on 22nd August, 1936 by mayor Samuel Beecher Sr. the building continues to house the city government.
This page created 11th October 2005, last modified 8th May 2008