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County Named, 1798
(Marker Number: 747)

County: Gallatin
Location: Warsaw, Courthouse lawn, US 42 & KY 35

Description: For Albert Gallatin, 1761-1849, a Swiss, who came to U.S., 1780. Penn. Cons. Convention, 1789-90; Legislature, 3 yrs. Congress, 1795-1801. Leader in finance, constitutional and international law, Secretary of the Treasury, 1802-14; Comm., Treaty of Ghent, 1814; Minister to France, 1816-23, England, 1826-27. National (later Gallatin) Bank of New York, president, 1831-39.

Governor from Warsaw
(Marker Number: 746)

County: Gallatin
Location: Warsaw, Courthouse lawn, US 42 & KY 35

Description: Birthplace of Richard Yates, 1818. In Illinois legislature for three terms; U.S. Congress, 1851-55. As Governor of Illinois, 1861-65, he vigorously supported Lincoln and state exceeded the call for volunteers. Member of U.S. Senate, 1865-71. Delegate to conventions that nominated Lincoln and Grant for President. Yates died 1873. A son Illinois Governor, 1901-04.

(Subjects: Governors)

Great River Tragedy
(Marker Number: 720)

County: Gallatin
Location: Warsaw, 2nd & E. Main Sts., US 42

Description: At midnight of Dec. 4, 1868 two cabined passenger steamers plying between Louisville and Cincinnati collided two miles above Warsaw. The America rammed deeply into the United States. Barrelled coal oil on deck of latter caught fire enveloping both boats in flames, spreading over surface of river. 162 lives, $350,000 property lost in terrible Ohio River holocaust.

(Subjects: Ohio River | Steamboats)