BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE historic battlefield site
By Sharon & Bruce Walter, West Lafayette homes for sale
(Keller Williams Realty Lafayette, IN)
AS I MENTIONED IN EARLIER BLOGS THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE (present day Battle Ground, Indiana) WAS THE OPENING CONFRONTATION OF THE WAR OF 1812 between the United States and Great Britain. A beautiful park with an excellent interpretive museum sits on the former battle site in BATTLE GROUND, a small town located about seven miles north of Lafayette, Indiana. Many of the large oak trees today were actually around at the time of the Battle of Tippecanoe when it was fought on November 7, 1811. In 1836 John Tipton, a survivor of the Battle of Tippecanoe, gifted the 16 acre battlefield site to the state of Indiana. In 1873 a black iron fence was erected around the battlefield site. In 1908 the Tippecanoe Battlefield monument was dedicated In 1963 the site was designated a NATIONAL HI...
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