In 2008 Corydon began celebrating its bicentennial anniversary with a year of events and the unveiling of a $ 200, 000 bronze statue of the late governor and citizen of Corydon, the Honorable Frank O ' Bannon.

Other companies around Harrison County immediately began to gather and advance to Corydon.

Just as the shelling began Provost Marshall John Timberlake arrived on the scene from Corydon with a small company of reinforcements and assumed command.

Corydon was competing with Madison and Jeffersonville to become the new capital of the territory.

The construction of the dam and the filling of the Allegheny Reservoir also necessitated the elimination of the small village of Corydon, which was located at the confluence of Willow Creek with the Allegheny River ; and the small village of Kinzua, which was located at the confluence of Kinzua Creek with the Allegheny River.

In the 1990s psychologist D. Corydon Hammond publicized a detailed theory of ritual abuse drawn from hypnotherapy sessions with his patients, alleging they were victims of a worldwide conspiracy of organized, secretive clandestine cells who used torture, mind control and ritual abuse to create alternate personalities that could be " activated " with codewords and were trained as assassins, prostitutes, drug traffickers, and child sex workers ( used to create child pornography ).

The first road was built in Harrison County in 1809 connecting Corydon with Mauckport on the Ohio River.

Hostilities broke out in 1811 with the Native American tribes on the frontier, and the territorial capital was moved to Corydon on May 1, 1813, after Pennington suggested it would be safer than Vincennes.

After Morgan opened fire with his own batteries from the opposite shore the legion quickly retreated towards Corydon.

Corydon, with a 2000 population of 2, 715, is the largest town in the county, the county seat, and center of economic activity.

The territorial legislature remained in Corydon and communicated with Posey by messenger.

Corydon became the second capital of the Indiana Territory on May 1, 1813, when it was moved there from Vincennes to be more centralized with the population of the newly reorganized Indiana Territory.

The first road from the state capital to the Ohio River, the region's central means of transportation, was built 1809 connecting the river at Mauckport with Corydon, Indiana.

When Morgan returned fire with his own artillery the home guard quickly retreated back toward Corydon leaving Mauckport undefended.

The eroticism of Virgil's second eclogue, Formosum pastor Corydon ardebat Alexin (" The shepherd Corydon burned with passion for pretty Alexis ") is entirely homosexual, although the use of that term is anachronistic due to a lack of any idea of sexual identity in the times in which Virgil was writing.

Minton's initial campaign slogan was " You can't offer a hungry man the Constitution ", a slogan he unveiled in a debate with Robinson in Corydon on August 11.

The other eclogues deal with the sorrows of earthly love, leading up to a dialogue between Corydon and Cornix, in which the heavenly love is extolled.

Jennings had been spending large amounts of money to maintain his Corydon home, and frequently held large dinners with state officials and community leaders.

He communicated with the legislature in Corydon by courier.

He was later adopted by Armen and Essa Best and went to live with them in Corydon in Harrison County in southern Indiana.

Along with the townspeople, they constructed breastworks that formed a defensive line south of Corydon.

Dennis Pennington and other representatives from Harrison County in the Indiana General Assembly resisted attempts to move the capital from Corydon ; they succeeded in part by adding a clause to the state constitution during the convention preventing the capital from leaving the town before 1825.

Since Indiana was first settled in its southern tier ( the state's first capital, Corydon, is in the south near the Ohio River ), it is hypothesized that the name was carried as the population expanded northward in the state.

Corydon was the state capital until 1825, but in the years afterward remained an important hub for southern Indiana.

A train wreck at the Corydon Junction's southern trestle, January 19, 1902

The southern extension connecting Corydon was purchased by the Corydon Scenic Railroad Company in 1989 and operated as a tourist attraction until 2003 when it was closed because of financial difficulties, ending passenger service in the county.

The county seat is Corydon, the former capital of Indiana.

Corydon was officially platted in 1808 and became the capital of the Indiana Territory in 1813.

In 1863 the Battle of Corydon was fought, the only battle of the American Civil War to occur in Indiana.

Harrison Spring is located west of Corydon ; it is in diameter and is over deep, making it the largest and deepest spring in Indiana.

In 1813 and 1814 Jeffersonville was briefly the de facto capital of the Indiana Territory, as then-governor Thomas Posey disliked then-capital Corydon, and wanting to be closer to his personal physician in Louisville, decided to live in Jeffersonville.

After the state of Indiana moved its capital to Indianapolis from Corydon in 1825, the community started to grow.

Corydon is a town in Harrison Township, Harrison County, Indiana, United States, founded in 1808.

After Vincennes, Corydon was the second capital of the Indiana Territory from May 1, 1813, until the establishment of the state of Indiana.

We the Representatives of the people of the Territory of Indiana, in Convention met, at Corydon, on Monday the tenth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixteen

After statehood, Corydon served as the first state capital of Indiana.

During the eleven years that Corydon served as a capital it was the center of politics in the state, and its residents included Davis Floyd, Governors of Indiana Jonathan Jennings and Ratliff Boon ( the first and second, respectively ), first Speaker of the Senate Dennis Pennington, and William Hendricks, who was the first Congressman, third governor and Senator.

Corydon was the site of the only Civil War battle fought in Indiana.

* Town of Corydon, Indiana website

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