Jeffersonville, Indiana Jeffersonville, Indiana City of Jeffersonville Skyline of Jeffersonville Jeffersonville / d f rs nv l/ is a town/city in Clark County, Indiana, along the Ohio River.
See also: Old Jeffersonville Historic District Precisely when the settlement became known as Jeffersonville is unclear, but it was probably around 1801, the year in which President Thomas Jefferson took office. In 1802 small-town inhabitants used a grid pattern designed by Thomas Jefferson for the formation of a city. On September 13, 1803, a postal service was established in the city.
In 1808 Indiana's second federal territory sale office was established in Jeffersonville, which initiated a expansion in settling in Indiana that was further spurred by the end of the War of 1812.
Shortly after formation, Jeffersonville was titled to be the governmental center of county of Clark County in 1802, replacing Springville.
In 1812 Charlestown was titled the county seat, but the governmental center of county returned to Jeffersonville in 1878, where it remains. In 1813 and 1814 Jeffersonville was briefly the de facto capital of the Indiana Territory, as then-governor Thomas Posey disliked then-capital Corydon, and wanting to be closer to his personal physician in Louisville, decided to live in Jeffersonville.
In 1825, General Lafayette visited Jeffersonville on his United States tour. The Civil War increased the importance of Jeffersonville, as the town/city was one of the principal gateways to the South amid the war, due to its locale directly opposite Louisville.
The third biggest Civil War hospital, Jefferson General Hospital was positioned in close-by Port Fulton (now inside Jeffersonville) from 1864 to 1866, as it was close to the river and Louisville.
A cemetery was assembled for declined soldiers down the hill, but the wooden grave markers had decayed by 1927, causing the Jeffersonville town/city council to build a ball field over the cemetery, and not bothering to move the graves, positioned on Crestview Avenue.
The Jeffersonville Quartermaster Intermediate Depot had its first beginning in the early days of the Civil War, near its present location.
By 1870, 17% of Jeffersonville inhabitants were foreign-born, mostly from Germany.
During the 1920s, Jeffersonville was a prominent gathering place for the Ku Klux Klan, as Louisville and New Albany had strong anti-Klan laws and Jeffersonville did not.
On January 2, 1948, Indiana State Police raided every casino in the town/city before the operators could warn each other, and the judge who had devoted the past nine years to eliminating gambling from Jeffersonville, James L.
This may have played a factor in keeping Jeffersonville inhabitants from voting to approve riverboat gambling in the 1990s.
In 2006, riverboat gambling was allowed, but for the return of gambling to occur the Indiana State council would either have to approve an additional riverboat, or one of the existing riverboats in Indiana would have to relocate to Jeffersonville; presumably, it would be one of the three presently serving the Cincinnati market.
In 1819 the first ship assembly took place in Jeffersonville, and steamboats would turn into key to Jeffersonville's economy. James Howard assembled his first steamboat in 1834 in Jeffersonville, titled the Hyperion. He established his ship building business in Jeffersonville that year but moved his company to Madison, Indiana in 1836 and remained there until 1844.
Howard returned his company to the Jeffersonville region to its final locale in Port Fulton in 1849.
In 1925 the United States Navy assumed control of the Howard Ship Yards until 1941, after Jeffersonville finally took in Port Fulton. During World War II, the shipyards assembled landing vessels such as the LST.
It was later established as the Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Company, later simply known as Jeffboat, which still supports the small-town economy. The history of ship assembly in Jeffersonville is the focus of the Howard Steamboat Museum.
There is an annual festival held in September called Steamboat Days that jubilates Jeffersonville's heritage. On February 5, 2008 the town/city of Jeffersonville officially took in four out of six prepared annex zones. The proposed annexation of the other two zones was postponed due to lawsuits.
The areas took in added about 5,500 acres (22 km2) to the town/city and about 4,500 people, raising the populace to an estimated 33,100.
Other services are being phased in such as police and fire and will work jointly with the pre-existing non-city services until they are available. One of the other two areas remaining to be took in was Oak Park, Indiana an region of about 5,000 more people.
The Clark County Courts dismissed the lawsuits against the town/city on February 25, 2008. This dismissal brings the remaining Oak Park region into the city.
The populace of the town/city is now expected to be nearly 50,000 people and is the biggest annexation in Jeffersonville's history.
Mitch Daniels announced that the two states, along with the City of Jeffersonville, would allocate $22 million in funding to complete the Big Four Bridge universal converting an abandoned barns bridge into a pedestrian and bicycle path to linking Louisville's Waterfront Park and downtown Jeffersonville.
Indiana spent $8 million and the City of Jeffersonville spent an extra $2 million in matching funds to pay for assembly of a ramp to the Big Four Bridge on the Indiana side.
In July 2012, Jeffersonville City officials unveiled plans for an $8 million plaza, titled "Big Four Station", to surround the new ramp.
The universal has pulled thousands of pedestrians a week into downtown Jeffersonville's chief shopping precinct and has spurred further development.
Jeffersonville is positioned at 38 17 44 N 85 43 53 W (38.295669, -85.731485). According to the 2010 census, Jeffersonville has a total region of 34.354 square miles (88.98 km2), of which 34.06 square miles (88.21 km2) (or 99.14%) is territory and 0.294 square miles (0.76 km2) (or 0.86%) is water. Jeffersonville has a mix of restaurants that range in popularity along the river front and downtown.
The town/city is scattered with lesser scale bars, restaurants and fast food chains in areas such as Quartermaster Station in which the Town Hall is now positioned and other shopping centers. Jeffersonville is most known for its being the place of birth of the nationwide pizza chain Papa John's Pizza.
Jeffersonville is home to the United States Bureau of the Census's National Processing Center, which is the agency's major center for collecting, capturing, and bringing data.
Former New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan spent part of his childhood in Jeffersonville and actress Natalie West lived in the town/city at one time.
Businessman John Schnatter graduated from Jeffersonville High School and started Papa John's in Jeffersonville.
Jeffersonville politician Richard B.
Evangelist William Branham lived in Jeffersonville for much of his life, and the Branham Tabernacle still stands on the corner of 8th and Penn Streets.
Admiral Jonas Ingram, Medal of Honor recipient and United States Atlantic Fleet commander amid the later years of World War II, was born in Jeffersonville, and attended Jeffersonville High School for a short time before to attending Culver Military Academy.
Basketball, Kentucky Wildcats star and Indiana Pacers player, interval up in Jeffersonville.
Country music star Judy Lynn died at her Jeffersonville home in 2010.
List of mayors of Jeffersonville, Indiana Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott, and Washington, Indiana.
"Jeffersonville Quartermaster Intermediate Depot - History and Functions".
"Clark County, Indiana - History".
Parts of Jeffersonville annexation official (by David Mann) The Evening News February 8, 2008 Jeffersonville annexation challenge is rejected (Ben Zion Hershberg) Courier Journal February 26, 2008 "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica article Jeffersonville.
City of Jeffersonville, Indiana website Jeffersonville, Indiana travel guide from Wikivoyage Clarksville, Indiana Utica, Indiana Municipalities and communities of Clark County, Indiana, United States
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