DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Washington:

Lewis Cass statue in U.S. Capitol Statuary Hall.

 

INDIANA

Fishers:

Conner Prairie. 1836 Prairietown village. Original house of fur trader William Conner. The spring house inspired the author to add the spring house scene to her book — www.connerprairie.org

Fort Wayne:

Fort Wayne. Replica of the fort in which the McCoys live and worked — www.visitfortwayne.com

Old City Hall Historical Museum. Contains Chief Richardville (Pishewa’s) wooden safe strapped and studded with iron — www.visitfortwayne.com

Huntington:

Historic Forks of the Wabash. Intersection of U.S. 24 and S.R. 9. Includes Chief Richardville’s (Pishewa) house that was built in 1834 and his portrait — www.historicforks.org

Marion:

Mississinewa Battlefield Society. 402 South Washington Street, Suite 509, P.O. Box 1812, 46953; 1 (800) 822.1812 — www.mississinewa1812.com

Pigeon Roost Massacre Monument:

North of Louisville, KY, east of U.S. 31, seven miles south of Scottsburg, IN. Picnic shelter. Free.

Rochester:

Fulton Co. Historical Society Museum. 37 E. Co. Rd. 375 N., 46975. Just off N. U.S. 31. William Polke’s house, information about the 1838 Potawatomi "Trail of Death." (219) 223.4436 — www.icss.net/~fchs

Vernon:

Historic town where the author was born and reared. Entire town on the National Register of Historical Places. Founded in 1815 by John Vawter, the U.S. Marshal who inspected mission stations. (812) 346.8989.

Vincennes:

Fort Knox II. Three miles above town on Fort Knox Rd. Stockade line of the fort where Harrison mustered his troops before the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe. Open year-round; interpretive signs. Annual re-enactment of Muster on the Wabash. Picnic & restroom facilities. (812) 882.7422 — www.accessknoxcounty.com

Grouseland. 3 W. Scott St., 47591. William Henry Harrison’s mansion in front of which he held his famous confrontation with the great Shawnee Chief Tecumseh in 1810. (812) 882.2096 — www.accessknoxcounty.com

 

KANSAS

Leavenworth:

Fort Leavenworth Living History. (913) 684.3191. leav-www.army.mil/museum

Franklin County:

Ottawa Indian Cemetery. No directions available. Graves of John Tauy "Tecumseh" Jones and Jotham Meeker.

Topeka:

Burnett’s Mound. At 32nd and Gage, just off of I-70 and Gage. Named after Abraham Burnett, the Potawatomi boy who sat as interpreter in councils of chiefs.

Kansas State Historical Society. 6425 SW Sixth Ave., 66615. Respository of Isaac McCoy Letters and Papers. (785) 272.8681 — www.kshs.org

Ottawa:

Ottawa University. John Tauy Jones, student of Isaac McCoy, was instrumental in its founding — www.ottawa.edu

 

KENTUCKY

Louisville:

Old Western Cemetery on Jefferson St. between 15th and 18th. Where Isaac McCoy is buried.

 

MICHIGAN-INDIANA State Line

Cass Co., MI and Elkhart, Co., IN.:

Christiana Creek, named by Isaac McCoy after his wife.

 

MISSOURI

Kansas City:

Christiana McCoy original portrait. John Wornall House Museum, 6115 Wornall, K.C. 64113. (816) 444.1858.

Union Cemetery, graves of John Calvin McCoy and Johnston Lykins.

 

NORTH DAKOTA

Washburn:

Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center, 40 miles north of Bismarck. Besides exhibits pertaining to William Clark, who figures prominently in the McCoy book, features a dugout canoe similar to the 40-ft. pirogue Isaac and men hand-hewed from a cottonwood tree to cross the Elkhart River in Indiana. (701) 462.8535 — www.washburnnd.com

 

OHIO

Rockford:

Shane’s Crossing. Restored log home of Anthony Shane — www.bright.net/~normvt/index.htm

 

OKLAHOMA

Fort Gibson:

907 North Garrison, P.O. Box 457, 74434. The reconstructed fort is a National Historic Landmark. (918) 478.4088 — www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/

 

TENNESSEE

Nashville:

The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson. 4580 Rachel’s Lane, Hermitage, TN, 37076 (615) 889.2941 — www.thehermitage.com

 

If you know of a point of interest that isn’t mentioned here, please contact the author: layman70@msn.com