. Centennial history and handbook of Indiana : the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time . alue of the goods had beenplaced at something like a half-million vast tract thus acquired was called Indianaby its new owners. The name may be interpretedthe land of the Indians, and in it may be de-tected the classical bias that is traceable in Loui-siana, Virginia, Carolina, Pennsylvania, Georgia,and many other geographical names. This was in 1768. Either then or later theowners took the name of the Indiana
. Centennial history and handbook of Indiana : the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time . alue of the goods had beenplaced at something like a half-million vast tract thus acquired was called Indianaby its new owners. The name may be interpretedthe land of the Indians, and in it may be de-tected the classical bias that is traceable in Loui-siana, Virginia, Carolina, Pennsylvania, Georgia,and many other geographical names. This was in 1768. Either then or later theowners took the name of the Indiana Land Com- pany, under which title it figures in the (. on-gressional Journals for several years, beginningin 1779, with a memorial from the companv pray-ing for relief. Tlie occasion of this memorialwas the refusal of Xirginia to recognize the com-panys title to the land. IIk- case draggedalong in Congress as such things do; linally thatbody decided that it could do nothing in the mat-ter, and in the end Xirginia swallowed it all,leaving the Indiana Land Company to drop outof history and Indiana as a region to ]xiss fromthe maps. By 1798, Indiana had For map see p. 25. icrriturial llall, \ inccniics, tin- Jlnildnii; m Wliiciithe First Territorial Lej^islaturc Met. Two years later, when the ierritory North-west of the Ohio was divided, a name tobe found for the western jiart of the region. Thename of the now defmict Indiana across theriver seemed to l)e e(|ually applical)le to thiscountry, and so in some way, now lost to his-torv, the application was niaile. In the sub-divisions that followed, our .^tate was the firstto take on permanent l)Oundaries, and it retainedthe name. This time it stuck, and so the red menha\e the nioiuuneiit thai the old land companycontemplated. In western Pennsylvania there is a countyliearing the name Indiana. which is probalilya reminiscence of the old \irginia tract. Thiscounty was erected in 1802. An interesting and
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