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15 Best Things to Do in Vincennes (Indiana)

George Rogers Clark National Historical Park

One of the oldest settlements west of the Appalachians, and the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in Indiana, Vincennes is a city that was founded in 1732 by French fur traders. At the beginning of the 19th century this was the capital of the Indiana Territory, where the future 9th President William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) …

A leafy eastern suburb of Paris, Vincennes is on the edge of the 11th and 20th Arrondissements and is just five minutes from the Gare de Lyon on the RER. Until it was engulfed by the city, Vincennes was a town on the edge of a large forest and grew around a château favoured as …