Terre Haute Postcards - Vigo County Court House (3)

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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 postcard, posted in Terre Haute on December 27th, 1910, has no other printed text.

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.

Soldiers & Sailors Monument

This postcard, stamped in Evansville, Indiana on July 13th, 1911, has the following printed text...

10140

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.

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