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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 212 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORYDON , a See also:

town and the See also:county-seat of See also:Harrison county, See also:Indiana, U.S.A., on See also:Indian See also:Creek, about 21 M. W. by S. of See also:Louisville, See also:Kentucky. Pop. (1900) 161o; (191o) 1703. Corydon is served by the Louisville, New See also:Albany & Corydon railway, which connects at Corydon Junction, 8 m. N., with the See also:Southern railway. There are See also:sulphur springs here, and the town is a summer and See also:health resort. See also:Wyandotte See also:Cave is several See also:miles W. of Corydon. Corydon is in an agricultural region, and there are valuable quarries in the neighbourhood; among the town's manufactures are waggons, and See also:building and lithographic See also:stone. Corydon was settled about 1805, and was the See also:capital of Indiana Territory from 1813 to 1816, and of the See also:state until 1824. The See also:convention which framed the first state constitution met here in See also:June 1816. The See also:original state See also:house, an unpretentious two-See also:storey stone building, is still See also:standing.

Corydon was captured by the Confederates during Gen. See also:

Morgan's See also:raid on the 9th of See also:July 1863.

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