Vincennes
a city and county-seat of Knox co., Ind.; on the Wabash river and on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, the Baltimore and Ohio South Western, and other railroads; 110 miles S. W. of Indianapolis. It is the entrepôt of a large agricultural region. Here are a court house, city hall, Vincennes University, the Harrison House, built by Governor Harrison in 1804; St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, an Orphan's Home, St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum for Boys (R. C.), several National banks, a number of daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals, street railroad and electric light plants, and waterworks.
The city has machine shops, saw and grist mills, sewer pipe works, foundries, and manufactories of wagons, cement, stoves, tile, brick, plaster, wrapping paper, and various articles in tin, iron, VINCENT and wood. A French trading post was established here in 1710, capital of the Northwest Territory. Indians. Till 1813 Vincennes was the 10, and a colony in Indians. Till 1813 Vincennes was the capital of the Northwest Territory.