Canoeing at Lafayette's Feast of the Hunter's Moon

Lafayette's Tippecanoe Battlefield Monument

Lafayette is a great place to live... In 1995, Lafayette was named an All-America City by the National Civic League! Lafayette is a great city with a strong tradition of civic participation in elections, neighborhood associations, and civic and arts groups. Lafayette was founded in the mid-19th century as a distribution center for its surrounding agricultural region...

History of Lafayette, Indiana

The Native Americans were the first to discover the beauty of this Wabash Valley... the Wea, Miami, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Wyandot, Winnebago, and Delaware were some of the tribes that settled here. Then the French arrived in the early 1700s and established a trading post at Ouiatenon and changes began in the valley.

Tecumseh and his brother, the Prophet, arrived to try and preserve the Native American way of life. They established the headquarters for their confederation at Prophetstown and this led to the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. Within five years, Indiana became a state and the settlers arrived here on the banks of the Wabash.

One of these early settlers was William Digby. At the end of 1894, he bought the land that would become Lafayette to establish a town. He platted it in May of 1825 and named it after the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the Revolutionary War.

Lafayette became the supply center for these new settlers moving into the area. In 1826, Tippecanoe County was formed with Lafayette as its county seat. The river provided transportation in those early years, with the city wharf just a block from the Courthouse Square. In the 1840s, the Wabash & Erie Canal arrived. By the 1850s the railroads had arrived to serve the developing town. Lafayette was soon a manufacturing, merchandising, and transportation center.

Purdue University

Lafayette continued to grow and in 1869, Purdue University was founded. The school has played an important part in the development of the Greater Lafayette area. Today, Lafayette has developed as a diversified community ... with manufacturing, merchandising, education and transportation all contributing their share.

Lafayette Attractions

Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University is a coeducational, state-assisted system in Indiana. Founded in 1869 and named after benefactor John Purdue, the University is one of the nation's leading research institutions with a reputation for excellent and affordable education.

Building upon historical strengths in engineering and agriculture, the West Lafayette Campus now offers nearly 6,700 courses in more than 200 specializations in the schools of Agriculture, Consumer and Family Sciences, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Liberal Arts, Management, Nursing, Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences, Science, Technology, and Veterinary Medicine. Programs of graduate study and research leading to advanced degrees come under the jurisdiction of the Graduate School.

Purdue University ranks very highly among colleges nationwide. To view Purdue University's Collegiate Rankings, Click Here.

Wolf Park

Wolf Park

Children always enjoy Wolf Park in Lafayette. Along with research and seminars on wolf behavior, particularly reproductive and inter-pack social behavior, Wolf Park provides interpretive programs to school groups throughout the year by prearrangement. They are also open to the general public from May through November and Saturday evening for Howl Nights. The park is home to several packs of gray wolves, plus foxes, bison and a coyote. To visit the Wolf Park website, Click Here!

The Columbian Park Zoo

The Columbian Park Zoo

The Columbian Park Zoo, located in Lafayette, is the oldest zoo in Indiana. It is home to a wide variety of animals fromm red-eyed treefrogs to spider monkeys to snow leopards. The two main objectives of the Zoo are to promote education and conservation. The Columbian Park Zoo participates in breeding programs which may provide the last hope for many species of animals. To visit the Columbian Park Zoo website, Click Here!

Local Area Links

Click on any of the links below for more information regarding Lafayette, West Lafayette and Purdue University and its surrounding areas.

	Lafayette Online		City of Lafayette Official Web Site
	Lafayette Statistics		City.Net Guide to Lafayette
	Guide to Greater Lafayette Business		Lafayette Weather Report
	The Complete Lafayette Area Directory		Lafayette Journal and Courier Online
	Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce		Purdue University

Sunset over the Beautiful Wabash River

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