Lafayette, Indiana Lafayette, Indiana City of Lafayette Downtown Lafayette and the Riehle Plaza & City - Bus depot in August 2011.
Downtown Lafayette and the Riehle Plaza & City - Bus depot in August 2011.
Flag of Lafayette, Indiana Tippecanoe County Indiana Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Lafayette Highlighted.svg Country United States of America State Indiana Named for General Lafayette Airports Purdue University Airport (West Lafayette) Lafayette (/ l fi t/ or lah-fee-YET) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, positioned 63 miles (101 km) northwest of Indianapolis and 105 miles (169 km) southeast of Chicago.
West Lafayette, on the other side of the Wabash River, is home to Purdue University, which contributes decidedly to both communities.
Together, Lafayette and West Lafayette form the core of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the 2010 United States Census, the populace of Lafayette was 67,140, roughly a 19% increase from 56,397 in 2000.
Enumeration pegged the year-round (excluding Purdue University students) populace of West Lafayette at 29,596 and a Tippecanoe County populace of 172,780. General Lafayette, 1792 This panoramic map illustrates a bird's-eye view of Lafayette, Indiana, in 1868.
When European explorers appeared at the region around what is now Tippecanoe County, it was inhabited by a tribe of Miami Indians known as the Ouiatenon or Weas.
In 1717, the French government established Fort Ouiatenon athwart the Wabash River and three miles (5 km) south of present-day Lafayette.
The town of Lafayette was platted in May 1825 by William Digby, a trader.
It was designated as the governmental center of county of the newly formed Tippecanoe County the following year.
Like many frontier towns, Lafayette was titled for General Lafayette, a French officer who decidedly aided George Washington's Continental Army amid the American Revolutionary War.
Lafayette toured the United States in 1824 and 1825.
In its earliest days, Lafayette was a shipping center on the Wabash River.
In 1838, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, the first United States Patent Commissioner, presented a booklet titled Valley of the Upper Wabash, Indiana, with Hints on Its Agricultural Advantages, to promote settlement of the region.
By 1845, Ellsworth had purchased 93,000 acres (380 km2) of farmland in and around Lafayette and moved there from Connecticut to supervise territory sales. By 1847 Ellsworth was distributing broadsides looking for farmers to purchase his farmland. He became president of the Tippecanoe County Agricultural Society in April 1851 despite some small-town resentment over what was called "the Yale Crowd" but he was defeated the same year when he ran for the Indiana House of Representatives. Ellsworth Street and Ellsworth Historic District are titled for the early real estate developer. The Wabash and Erie Canal in the 1840s stimulated trade and affirmed Lafayette's county-wide prominence.
The Monon Railroad connected Lafayette with other sections of Indiana.
Lafayette was the site of the first official air mail bringy in the United States, which took place on August 17, 1859, when John Wise piloted a balloon starting on the Lafayette courthouse grounds.
Lafayette is positioned at 40 24 38 N 86 52 29 W (40.410585, 86.874681) and lies in Fairfield and Wea Townships.
Elevation at the court home is 550 feet (168 m), but town/city elevations range from a little over 500 feet (150 m) at the Wabash River to approximately 700 feet (210 m) in the areas of Murdock Park and Columbian Park.
According to the 2010 census, Lafayette has a total region of 27.74 square miles (71.85 km2), all land. In recent years, temperatures in Lafayette have ranged from an average low of 17 F ( 8 C) in January to a high of 86 F (30 C) in July, although a record low of 33 F ( 36 C) was recorded in January 1985 and again in January 1994; and a record high of 105 F (41 C) was recorded in June 1988.
Climate data for Lafayette, Indiana Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 5.3 3.3 1.7 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.9 3.5 15.1 Lafayette Metropolitan Travel Destination Broadside advertising sale of 200-acre farms, Lafayette, Indiana, 1847 Lafayette is the larger principal town/city of the Lafayette-Frankfort CSA, a Combined Travel Destination that includes the Lafayette urbane region (Benton, Carroll, and Tippecanoe counties) and the Frankfort micropolitan region (Clinton County), which had a combined populace of 212,408 at the 2000 census. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 74.2% White, 11.2% African American, 0.4% Native American, 1.4% Asian, 5.8% from other competitions, and 2.7% from two or more competitions.
There were 28,545 homeholds of which 29.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 36.7% were married couples living together, 13.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.2% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 44.4% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 31.9 years.
23.8% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 12.9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 29.9% were from 25 to 44; 22.2% were from 45 to 64; and 11.3% were 65 years of age or older.
View of Lafayette from Main St bridge.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 88.91% White; 3.22% African American; 0.37% Native American; 1.22% Asian; 0.04% Pacific Islander; 4.61% from other competitions, and 1.62% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.2% under the age of 18; 14.2% from 18 to 24; 31.3% from 25 to 44; 19.3% from 45 to 64; and 12.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
K-12 enhance education in Lafayette is provided by the Lafayette School Corporation.
The Tippecanoe School Corporation also administers county schools nearby.
New Community School is a tuition-free elementary charter school (sponsored by Ball State University) positioned on the north side of Lafayette.
Beacon Academy is a charter school positioned in West Lafayette.
Lafayette Christian School The newspaper, which serves the Greater Lafayette area, has its newsroom and bureaus positioned in downtown Lafayette.
Journal & Courier also has its own printing services for itself and other papers in the region on the eastside of Lafayette.
Purdue University's daily autonomous student journal serves Purdue, West Lafayette, and Lafayette, and has its newsroom and bureaus positioned just off ground on Northwestern Avenue in West Lafayette.
The Lafayette Leader Sagamore Parkway (as seen from West Lafayette) There is no airport in Lafayette.
The nearest airport is the Purdue University Airport (LAF), in West Lafayette, IN.
The nearest airport which presently has airline service is the Indianapolis International Airport, which is about 60 miles south of Lafayette.
I-65.svg Interstate 65 to Gary, Indiana (near Chicago) and Indianapolis Indiana 25.svg State Road 25 Indiana 26.svg State Road 26 Indiana 38.svg State Road 38 Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides passenger rail service to Lafayette through the Cardinal to Chicago, Washington D.C., and New York City.
See also: Lafayette, Indiana (Amtrak station) City - Bus small-town bus service by the Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation Lafayette Limo shuttle service to the Indianapolis International Airport Suburban Express operates weekend bus service between Purdue and Chicago Suburbs when Purdue is in session.
Much of the economy of the town/city of Lafayette and the encircling area is centered around the academic and industrialized activities of Purdue University.
The college and its associated businesses employ the biggest portion of the Lafayette workforce.
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette For notable inhabitants associated with Purdue University, see List of Purdue University citizens .
William Fritz Afflis wrestled as Dick the Bruiser from 1950s to 1980s and Lafayette Jefferson High School graduate Bernard "Bernie" Flowers Purdue All American and NFL Baltimore Colts 1950s, born in the Cleveland area, made Lafayette home Dustin Keller New York Jets NFL tight end and Lafayette Jefferson High School graduate Chukie Nwokorie NFL defensive player and Lafayette Jefferson High School graduate Henry Leavitt Ellsworth first Commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office; real estate developer Representative, 6th Congressional District Indiana 1975 1983 John Purdue Purdue Block, Tippecanoe County founder, beginning benefactor of Purdue University Barron 14th President of Florida State University, 18th President of Penn State Purdue University, positioned in West Lafayette; 10 minutes North of Lafayette lies Prophet Rock, the landmark where the Prophet Tenskwatawa, the half brother of Tecumseh, stood watch encouraging the small-town Shawnee Native Americans to fight against the encamped army forces of William Henry Harrison in the Battle Of Tippecanoe in 1811.
The Martin Jenners headstone is positioned at the Spring Vale Cemetery in Lafayette. Jenners was a Civil War veteran who was known as the first white person born in Tippecanoe County and as an outspoken atheist. Originally positioned in Greenbush Cemetery, his headstone is unique because he had it placed in the cemetery fourteen years before his death, and it has the following inscription: "My only objection to religion is that it is not true.
Spring Vale Cemetery, Lafayette, Indiana.
The old Temple Israel (Lafayette, Indiana) building at 17 South 7th St.
Is one of the earliest surviving Jewish house of worship buildings in the United States.
Trinity United Methodist Church (formerly Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church until 1969) is the first church to have been started in the Lafayette, Indiana, area.
Lafayette horizon from West Lafayette View of Lafayette from Main St bridge Neighborhoods of Lafayette Downtown Lafayette Historic District a b "G001 Geographic Identifiers 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1".
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A Day in the Life of Tippecanoe County, Tippecanoe County Historical Association Guide to the Henry Leavitt Ellsworth Papers, Yale University Library A Day in the Life of Tippecanoe County, Tippecanoe County Historical Association During the reconstructionof Ellsworth's residence in Lafayette, two of his kids came to nationwide attention.
His son Henry William Ellsworth was confirmed as United States charge d'affaires at Stockholm, Sweden, in January 1846; and Ellsworth's daughter Annie suggested the words of the first telegraph message sent by her father's friend Samuel F.
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