Conner Prairie

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Conner Prairie

 

 

the museum

 

 

prairie technology


History of the Area

 

Lenape Indian Lodge (1816)

 

traveling overland with the Conestoga wagon

 

William Conner meeting the Lenape Indians

Conner Prairie traces its lineage to William Conner. Trader, interpreter, scout, community leader, and entrepreneur, Conner came to central Indiana during the winter of 1800-1801 and soon fixed himself upon the land now encompassing the museum complex. He lived there until moving to Noblesville in 1837. During his thirty-seven year tenure on the prairie he raised two families, built the two-storey brick home that is one of Conner Prairie's focal points, and helped shepherd the transition of Indiana from wilderness to settled state.
 

William Conner's home

 

showing the semicircular bake oven

 

schoolhouse (1836)

 

Whitaker's store

 

the store interior

 

Cedar Chapel Covered Bridge

More Photos of Cedar Chapel Covered Bridge

 

Zimmerman's Farm and Home (1886)

 

log farm buildings

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