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For a short time in the 1850s Grouseland served as a hotel named Harrison House. This illustration is from the Illustrated London News, 1858.

Grouseland: The Home of

he summer of 1810 was a by anywhere from one hundred to enjoyed by the hero of the Battle of tense one in Vincennes, four hundred (accounts differ on the Tippecanoe and ninth president of capital of the decade-old number) of his braves. Despite eight the United States. . Al­ days of discussion, the two sides On 13 May 1800, at the young age though Territorial Gov­ could not come to terms and even­ of twenty-seven, William Henry Har­ Ternor William Henry Harrisontually had settled their differences on the rison was selected by Federalist successfully negotiated treaties that battlefield. The scene of this remark­ President John Quincy Adams to opened approximately three million able meeting between two leading serve as governor of the Indiana Ter­ acres to settlement, Northwest Ter­ figures in Indiana and American ritory. For a salary of $2,000 per year, ritory tribes—encouraged by the history matched the grandeur of its Harrison governed land that would British—were rallying to the call of participants—the stately grounds be carved into the present-day states the warriors of Harrison’s home, known as of , Indiana, Michigan, Min­ and his brother, the Prophet, to end Grouseland. nesota and Wisconsin. He would hold the white man’s intrusion onto their Today, thanks to the efforts of the this post for four three-year terms. land. Francis Vigo Chapter, Daughters of At the time of Harrison’s first ad­ To help calm the situation, Gover­ the American Revolution, Hoosiers ministration, Vincennes, the new nor Harrison arranged a meeting can tour the Federal-style rfiansion, seat of government for the Indiana with Tecumseh, who arrived in Vin­ a National Historical Landmark, Territory, numbered approximately cennes on 12 August, accompanied and experience the gracious living seven hundred citizens, both French

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