Historic Southern Indiana

1. The 47th governor of Indiana, Frank O’Bannon, was a native of Corydon. Governor O'Bannon died in office September 13, 2003.

2. In 1997, southern Indiana quarried about 2.7 million cubic feet of limestone (as compared with 12 million in 1929).

3. US 231, which begins in Rockport, is the longest Indiana roadway, extending 297 miles and crossing 14 counties.

4. The state of Indiana is at most 265 miles long, north to south, and that corridor extends from Evansville northward to Chicago.

5. Most of the 813,000 acres of wetlands in 1995 (as compared with an estimate of 5.6 million in 1816) are located in southern Indiana.

Source: “Introducing Indiana Past and Present,” The Indiana Historian (December 1998).

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