Besides the George Rogers Clark National Historic Park with that impressive structure on the site of British Fort Sackville which was captured Feb. 25, 1779, there are a lot of sites worth visiting.
FORT KNOX II is located three miles north of town on Fort Knox Road. It was one of three early US forts in the Vincennes area and served as a staging area for troops before the Battle of Tippecanoe' It's shape and size is outlines by a series of small posts.
SONOTABUC PREHISTORIC INDIAN MOUND at 2401 Wabash Avenue.
BROUILLET FRENCH HOUSE at 509 North First Street. Built around 1806and the home of a French fur trader. One of six remaining upright log and mud houses in North America.
GROUSELAND at 3 West Scott Street. Home of William Henry Harrison 1803 to 1812 when he was governor of Indiana Territory.
INDIANA TERRITORIAL STATE MEMORIAL. From 1800 to 1813, Vincennes was the capital of the Indiana Territory.
From the Econolodge Brochure.
Like I Said,a Very Historical Place. --DaCoot
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