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 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
FAIRBANKS' MASSACRE
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A War of 1812 military action occurred in September 1812 three miles west-southwest of here. While escorting supplies from Fort Knox near Vincennes to Fort Harrison at Terre Haute, Sergeant Nathan Fairbanks and approximately a dozen soldiers were ambushed -- and most killed -- by Indians.
Erected by Indiana Michigan Power and Sullivan County Historical Society, 1989.
Main St. (IN-63) & Market St. (CR-925), Fairbanks, Sullivan County Indiana
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