At one time 12 different stagecoach lines ran through Indiana on the National Road. (Now U.S. Interstate 40)
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Historic Parke County, Indiana has 32 covered bridges and is the Covered Bridge Capital of the world.
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Indiana was part of the huge Northwest Territory, which included present day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, which were ceded to the United States by the British at the end of the Revolutionary war.