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812, 930. FIPS code. 18-22180 [2] GNIS feature ID. 434287. Fairbanks is an unincorporated community in Fairbanks Township, Sullivan County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [3] The community is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area .
History. Fairbanks Township was named for one General Fairbanks. Geography. According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 41.51 square miles (107.5 km 2), of which 41 square miles (110 km 2) (or 98.77%) is land and 0.52 square miles (1.3 km 2) (or 1.25%) is water. Unincorporated towns
The history of Fairbanks, the second-largest city in Alaska, can be traced to the founding of a trading post by E.T. Barnette on the south bank of the Chena River on August 26, 1901. The area had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age, but a permanent settlement was not established at the site of Fairbanks until the start of the ...
While escorting supplies from Fort Knox near Vincennes to Fort Harrison at Terre Haute, Sergeant Nathan Fairbanks and approximately a dozen soldiers were ambushed - and most killed - by Indians. In 1815, Carlisle was founded. An act of the Indiana legislature dated December 30, 1816, created Sullivan County, with areas partitioned from Knox ...
Indiana State Normal School in 1903 Fairbanks Hall Dome. Indiana State University was established by the Indiana General Assembly on December 20, 1865, as the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute. Its location in Terre Haute was secured by a donation of $73,000 by Chauncey Rose.
Location of Sullivan County in Indiana. This is a list of the Indiana state historical markers in Sullivan County. This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Sullivan County, Indiana, United States by the Indiana Historical Bureau. The locations of the historical markers and their latitude and ...
Mounds State Park is a state park near Anderson, Madison County, Indiana featuring Native American heritage, and ten ceremonial mounds built by the prehistoric Adena culture indigenous peoples of eastern North America, and also used centuries later by Hopewell culture inhabitants. It is separate from (and about 79 miles northwest of) the ...
Fort Harrison, Indiana. Coordinates: 39°30′31″N 87°24′40″W. Fort Harrison was a War of 1812 era stockade constructed in Oct. 1811 on high ground overlooking the Wabash River on a portion of what is today the modern city of Terre Haute, Indiana, by forces under command of Gen. William Henry Harrison. It was a staging point for Harrison ...