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KNOX COUNTY COURT HOUSE, BUILT IN 1873, COST $360,000
NOIANA
FIRST PUBLIC BUILDING ERECTED IN U. S. AS A SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL
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VINCENNES, Ind.-Knox County court house
erected in 1873 at a cost of more than $360,000
claimed to be first public building erected
in U. S. as a soldier's memorial. Architecture
exceptional. In addition to several beautiful
tablets there is one in marble 21 feet high
of George Rogers Clark. The sculpturing is
by Andrew Barrot of Carrara, Italy. It is
carved from one piece of stone and weighs
four tons. Nearby stands the $50,000 soldiers
monument erected in 1914.
A. A. ARNOLD. VINCENNES, IND,
