Battle Ground, Indiana: Tippecanoe Battlefield Monument and Museum

The monument marks the site of an ill-advised Indian attack against William Henry Harrison's army; his victory made him famous and, eventually, U.S. President. A statue of Harrison wearing a big cockade hat -- sculpted by John Mahoney -- stands to one side of the 85-foot-tall monument, which was dedicated in 1908.

Address:: Battleground Ave., Battle Ground, IN
Hours:: Monument gate open dawn-dusk. (Call to verify)
Phone:: 765-476-8411

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The Battle of Tippecanoe.

The Battle of Tippecanoe

I feel like we have heard about "Tippecanoe" our entire lives, and maybe you have heard the song. So it was pretty great to see where it was and stand on the ground of the battle.

The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought between American soldiers and Native American warriors along the banks of the Keth-tip-pe-can-nunk, a river in the heart of central Indiana. Following the Treaty of Fort Wayne (an 1809 agreement requiring Indiana tribes to sell three million acres of land to the United States government), a Shawnee chief named Tecumseh organized a confederation of Native American tribes to combat the horde of pioneers flooding into native lands.

[Brian Sidney Bembridge, 06/06/2025]

For his victory in the Battle of Tippecanoe, William Henry Harrison was elected the ninth President of the United States, then caught a cold and died after only a month in office.

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