CORYDON  , a

town and the county-seat of Harrison county, Indiana, U.S.A., on Indian Creek, about 21 M . W. by S. of Louisville, Kentucky . Pop . (1900) 161o; (191o) 1703 . Corydon is served by the Louisville, New Albany & Corydon railway, which connects at Corydon Junction, 8 m . N., with the Southern railway . There are sulphur springs here, and the town is a summer and health resort . Wyandotte Cave is several miles W. of Corydon . Corydon is in an agricultural region, and there are valuable quarries in the neighbourhood; among the town's manufactures are waggons, and building and lithographic stone . Corydon was settled about 1805, and was the capital of Indiana Territory from 1813 to 1816, and of the state until 1824 . The convention which framed the first state constitution met here in June 1816 . The original state house, an unpretentious two-storey stone building, is still standing .

Corydon was captured by the Confederates during Gen .

Morgan's raid on the 9th of July 1863 .