Founders and Pioneers
- Johnny Appleseed, missionary (Fort Wayne)
- Squire Boone, frontiersman, (Laconia)
- Jonathan Jennings, first Governor of Indiana
- Dennis Pennington, first speaker of the house in Indiana, Corydon, Indiana, also built the first capitol building. (Lanesville)
- Spier Spencer, militia leader who died in the Battle of Tippecanoe
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“A spot whereon the founders lived and died
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“We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard, sent on through the wilderness of untried things, to break a new path in the New World that is ours.”
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