. 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 . government surveys in Indiana, by Prof. JohnCollett, in geological report for 1882. CENTENNIAL HISTORY AND HANDBOOK OF INDIANA 45 The second office was opened at Jeffersonville in1807. Subsequent ones, as the acquired lands ex-tended northward, were at Brookville, Indian-apolis, Crawfordsville, Winamac and FortWayne. Divisions of Indiana Territory.—OriginallyIndiana Territory extended westward to the Mis-sissippi and nort
. 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 . government surveys in Indiana, by Prof. JohnCollett, in geological report for 1882. CENTENNIAL HISTORY AND HANDBOOK OF INDIANA 45 The second office was opened at Jeffersonville in1807. Subsequent ones, as the acquired lands ex-tended northward, were at Brookville, Indian-apolis, Crawfordsville, Winamac and FortWayne. Divisions of Indiana Territory.—OriginallyIndiana Territory extended westward to the Mis-sissippi and northward to the Canadian bound-ary. In 1805 a division was made by a line run-ning eastward from the southern extremity of Ohio extended north to Canada till the forma-tion of the State of Ohio in 1802, when the coun-try cut off by Ohios northern boundary wasadded to Indiana. The western boundary of Ohioas established at that time shifted the line thathad previously formed the eastern boundary ofIndiana, thus forming the Gore.* First Party Divisions.—The first party divi-sions in Indiana were not along the line of na-tional questions, but on local issues that aroused. Old Mill on Big Raccoon Creek near Armiesburg, in Parke County. The tradition is that William HenryHarrison encamped here with his troops on his way to the Battle of Tippecanoe, in 1811.—Courtesy ofA. H. Nor dyke. Lake Michigan and north of this line the Terri-tory of Michigan was created. Again, by a con-gressional act of February 3, 1809, all that coun-try lying west of the Wabash river a linedrawn due north from Vincennes to the Cana-dian line was constituted a separate territory andcalled Illinois. This gave to Indiana its presentlimits except that subsequently the Michigan linewas shifted ten miles north of the southern ex-tremity of the lake. The eastern part of the Michigan peninsulawas not at first a part of Indiana Territory, asthe line separating the latter from what is now considerable feeling
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