Interim Content
Terre Haute, Indiana
Summary
Situated high on east bank of Wabash River. French settlement, 1720–1763; name is French for “high land.” Founded as Fort Harrison, 1811. Laid out and incorporated, 1816. Vigo Co. seat. Population in 1830 about 600; in 1837 about 1,100; and in 1840 about 2,000. JS and Sidney Rigdon held meetings in town en route to Far West, Missouri, Nov. 1837. JS’s brother Don Carlos wrote him from near Terre Haute, 6 July 1838, citing ongoing difficulties of Smith family’s relocation from Kirtland, Ohio, to Caldwell Co., Missouri.
Links
papers
- History Draft [6 August 1838–30 December 1839]
- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 [2 November 1838–31 July 1842]
- Elders’ Journal, November 1837
- Elders’ Journal, October 1837
- History, 1838–1856, volume B-1 [1 September 1834–2 November 1838]
- History, 1838–1856, volume D-1 [1 August 1842–1 July 1843]
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 1, 21 December 1842–10 March 1843
- Journal, March–September 1838
- Letter from Don Carlos Smith, circa Late May 1838
- Letter from Heber C. Kimball, 9 July 1840
- Letter from Horace Hotchkiss, 7 February 1842
- Letter from Samuel Bent and George W. Harris, 23 September 1840
- Letter to Horace Hotchkiss, 10 March 1842
- Letter to the Presidency in Kirtland, 29 March 1838
- Letterbook 2
- Travel Account and Questions, November 1837
- Township
- Harrison Township
- Town/City
- Terre Haute
- County
- Vigo County
- State/Province
- Indiana
- Country:
- United States of America