• Indiana's Eel River once served as informal boundary between the lands of the Potawatomi people in the north and Miami people in the south?

Facts on topics related to Eel River (Indiana)

Battle of Tippecanoe

• the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne led to the outbreak of Tecumseh's War and the subsequent Battle of Tippecanoe?

Indiana in the War of 1812

• to defend Indiana during the War of 1812, Governor Harrison (pictured) had to recruit militia from Kentucky as those from Indiana would not join the army?

Indiana

• 9 of Indiana's 12 native bat species have been observed in the National Natural Landmark Wyandotte Caves?
• abolitionist George Bradburn was with Frederick Douglass on an 1843 anti-slavery lecture tour in Indiana, when they were attacked?
• Kentucky governor William S. Taylor was implicated in the assassination of William Goebel, his political rival, and fled to Indiana to avoid indictment?
• Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully?
• Indiana state governor Frank O'Bannon stayed at Fort Harrison State Park while the governor's mansion was being made handicapped-accessible?
• Indiana's Eel River once served as informal boundary between the lands of the Potawatomi people in the north and Miami people in the south?
• Indiana's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning?
• Indiana's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?
• Tin Pan Alley song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" by Paul Dresser, Indiana's state song, became its first official state symbol in 1913?
• chocolataires, popular around the late 19th century, were thrown as a novel alternative to tea parties—once even for a kindergarten fundraiser in Indiana, USA?