Colonel Thomas L Posey, though never married, helped raise 14 orphans in the Posey House.  Some of them were later mentioned in his will.

There have been 35 different flags flown over Corydon.  All of these flags have been documented by the Smithsonian Institution and are on display in Corydon.

Civil War soldiers were required to be 18 years old, but many underage youths served in the Army.  Some wanted to be in the army so badly, they put slips of paper with "18" written on them into their shoes.  When enlisting, they could say that they were over "18".  Boys younger than 18 could be accepted into service as field musicians, drummers, fifers, and buglers. Edward Black, a drummer for the 21st Ind. Regiment, enlisted in 1861 at the age of eight and was discharged at the age of nine.

General John Hunt Morgan, leader of the confederate Morgan's Raiders (1863 Battle of Corydon), was nicknamed "The Thunderbolt of the Confederacy".

There has been a fair held at Harrison County Fairgrounds every year since 1860-- that is a state record.  At the southwest corner of the fairgrounds is a spring marking the location of the first permanent home in Corydon.

Edward Smith, the first settler in Corydon (1802), was a British soldier in the Revolutionary War that defected to the Colonies and fought the rest of the war on the Colonists' side.  He built his log cabin by the famous Corydon spring.

A racehorse named Bertha W. is buried in the middle of the fairgrounds racetrack in Corydon.  She won more races at the Harrison County Fairgrounds track than any other horse.  After winning her last race there, she collapsed and died.

Excerpt from the Corydon Democrat newspaper dated July 14, 1863, five days after the Battle of Corydon:
 "Shortly after the flank movement was begun and before it was executed, the enemy opened upon our forces with three pieces of artillery, making the shells sing the ugliest kind of music over our heads.  This shelling operation, together with the known fact that our lines would be strongly flanked on both wings at the same time made it necessary for the safety of our men, for them to fall back.  This was done, not with the best of order it is true, for our forces were mostly undrilled, but with excellent speed.  From this time the fight was converted into a series of skirmishes in which each man must fight upon his own hook, much after the manner of the bushwhackers."

The Leora Brown School was built in the 1890's for the education of black children, the grade school met in one room and the high school in the other.  High school students were integrated into the white school in the 1930's and grade school children in the 1950's.  This may be the oldest former black school building still standing in Indiana.

The first buildings constructed by Harrison County in the public square in Corydon were the stray animal pen and the county jail.  More activity was reported at the stray pen than at the jail.