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Corydon, town, seat (1808) of Harrison county, southern Indiana, U.S., 25 miles (40 km) west of Louisville, Kentucky. It was settled in about 1808 on land originally owned by General William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory (1800–12), who named the town for a shepherd in a popular song of the times, “Pastoral Elegy.” It was the capital of the Indiana Territory (1813–16) and of the state from 1816 until the capital was moved to Indianapolis in 1825. The convention that drafted the first constitution for Indiana met there in June 1816; the first statehouse is preserved as the Corydon ...(100 of 250 words)

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