Month: April 2021
The Italian merchant spy that helped the Americans win the Revolutionary War! Francis Vigo! The interesting patriot Francis Vigo has a monument located at the General George Rogers Clark National Historic Park in Vincennes, Indiana on the banks of the Wabash River. He was born Giuseppe  Maria Francesco Vigo on December 13, 1747, in Italy.…
Read More
Jemima Boone became nationally famous for her epic capture and rescue with the two Calloway sisters in 1776. Jemima Boone was born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone on October 4, 1762, in the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina, and she moved with her family to what became Boonesborough in 1775. Jemima became nationally famous in…
Read More
“Finger Licking Good!” You have to travel to some very remote places on the globe to find someone that doesn’t recognize the image of Colonel Harland Sanders who built a restaurant franchise based on delicious southern fried chicken. Colonel Sanders was born on September 9, 1890, in Henryville, Indiana. He was the oldest of three…
Read More