{"id":2796,"slug":"george-rogers-clark-memorial-vincennes-indiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The George Rogers Clark Memorial is the rotunda on the Wabash — the 1933 granite monument to the 1779 capture of Fort Sackville that won the Old Northwest, the 80-foot memorial that FDR dedicated in 1936. It's bigger than the battle it commemorates.","The memorial was the commemoration — the Sesquicentennial Commission that raised $2.5 million, the Frederic Hirons design with the 'frontier staunchness' Doric columns, the Ezra Winter murals inside. The site was Fort Sackville; the city cleared the warehouses to build it.","The memorial is still there — the National Historical Park, the statue by MacNeil, the memorial that's the Northwest's monument. The file keeps the rotunda: the 1933 construction, the 1779 battle, and the memorial that made Vincennes the Northwest's shrine.","The Clark Memorial is the archive's monument file — the Wabash rotunda, the Fort Sackville victory, and the memorial that's bigger than the war."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Clark Memorial is the archive's monument file — the 1933 rotunda, the Northwest's victory, and the memorial that made the town.","A memorial to a battle keeps its columns — the file's suggestion being that the rotunda's hold is the scale: the 80 feet of granite, the $2.5 million, and the monument that's the Northwest's."]}],"name":"George Rogers Clark Memorial","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","FRONTIER","REVOLUTIONARY_WAR"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The 1779 fort capture—Clark’s winter march that won the Northwest.","full_desc":"George Rogers Clark Memorial is a site in Vincennes, Indiana. The 1779 fort capture—Clark’s winter march that won the Northwest. The archive files it under the frontier, the Revolutionary War and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Vincennes","county":null,"state":"Indiana","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":38.676621,"lon":-87.509956,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"IN batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2452,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the memorial. George Rogers Clark Memorial in Vincennes, Indiana carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. 'George Rogers Clark' carries the account. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"George Rogers Clark","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rogers_Clark_National_Historical_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The February 1779 capture is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'George Rogers Clark'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1779-02","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"George Rogers Clark","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rogers_Clark_National_Historical_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"George Rogers Clark","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rogers_Clark_National_Historical_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"George Rogers Clark National Historical Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rogers_Clark_National_Historical_Park","desc":"US National Historical Park in Indiana","extract":"George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, located in Vincennes, Indiana, on the banks of the Wabash River at what is believed to be the site of Fort Sackville, is a United States National Historical Park. President Calvin Coolidge authorized a classical memorial and President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the completed structure in 1936.\nOn February 25, 1779, Lieutenant Colonel George Rogers Clark, older brother of William Clark, led the capture of Fort Sackville and British Lt. Governor Henry Hamilton as part of the Illinois Campaign, which lasted from 1778 to 1779. The march of Clark's men from Kaskaskia on the Mississippi River in mid-winter and the subsequent victory over the Briti","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/George_Rogers_Clark_Memorial.JPG/960px-George_Rogers_Clark_Memorial.JPG?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":79,"lat":38.67919444,"lon":-87.53559444},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}