Jeffersonville, Indiana Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Early history ==== 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.<ref name="JeffHist">{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofjeff.net/history/historymain.htm |title=Official History of Jeffersonville |publisher=Cityofjeff.net |access-date=July 28, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720154625/http://www.cityofjeff.net/history/historymain.htm |archive-date=July 20, 2008 }}</ref> In 1802 local residents used a grid pattern designed by [[Thomas Jefferson]] for the formation of a city.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TBvVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA29 | title=Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott, and Washington, Indiana | publisher=Chicago Printing Company | year=1889 | pages=29| isbn=9781548571665 }}</ref> On September 13, 1803, a post office was established in the city. In 1808 Indiana's second federal land sale office was established in Jeffersonville, which initiated a growth in settling in Indiana that was further spurred by the end of the [[War of 1812]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}} In 1802, Jeffersonville replaced [[Springville, Clark County, Indiana|Springville]] as the county seat of Clark County. [[Charlestown, Indiana|Charlestown]] was named the county seat in 1812 but it returned to Jeffersonville in 1878, where it remains.<ref name="JeffHist" /> In 1813 and 1814 Jeffersonville was briefly the ''de facto'' capital of the [[Indiana Territory]], as then-[[governor]] [[Thomas Posey]] disliked then-[[Capital city|capital]] [[Corydon, Indiana|Corydon]] and decided to live in Jeffersonville to be closer to his personal [[physician]] in Louisville. The territorial legislature remained in Corydon and communicated with Posey by messenger.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=tjymxfjAKXgC&q=dennis+pennington Life of Walter Quintin Gresham, 1832β1895] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907104659/https://books.google.com/books?id=tjymxfjAKXgC&q=dennis%20pennington |date=September 7, 2023 }}'' By Matilda Gresham (Rand, McNally & company 1919) page 23-23</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page