I’ve run across a few websites that think the building once known as Branham Tavern is still a working tavern to this day. Whoops!

I’ve never thought of President William Henry Harrison as one of this blog’s patron saints, but in prepping this entry, it dawned on me that we’ve name-checked him enough times in our travels to make our own clipfest. We’ve run across representations and mementos from his life in several attractions to date:

• The Tippecanoe Battlefield Museum, which commemorates the 1811 conflict with the indigenous that’s regarded as his most memorable fight scene, for better or worse
• His final resting place at the base of an obelisk near a trailer park outside Cincinnati, OH
• His genuine autograph at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, also in Ohio
• Mingling with multiple Hoosier subjects in a mural at the Indiana Statehouse
• Rendered in bronze as one of 43 Presidential statues occupying street corners in Rapid City, SD

Admittedly we blew our chance to collect a complete set when we visited Vincennes in 2020 and failed to stop by Grouseland, his old mansion. As I recall it was closed at the time of our visit for renovation and/or pandemic. Maybe we’ll rectify that omission next time we’re in the area. In the meantime, our visit to Corydon added another of his previous residences to our veritable Ninth President Collectors’ Checklist, not that we consciously keep one.

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