The Benjamin Ferguson House is a historic home located in the southwest of
Charlestown, Indiana. It was built by Ferguson in 1816, and is a two-story,
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style brick dwelling with a one-story rear wing. Also on the property is a contributing shed with fruit cellar and the original well.
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Benjamin Ferguson was an attorney living in
Clark County, Indiana
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, at the time of Indiana's statehood in 1816. In 1824 he became an associate justice of the Clark Circuit Court. He was nominated for the position of state senator in 1838 by those who did not want Clark County's
county seat to be moved to
Jeffersonville, Indiana
Jeffersonville is a city and the county seat of Clark County, Indiana, Clark County, Indiana, United States, situated along the Ohio River. Locally, the city is often referred to by the abbreviated name Jeff. It lies directly across the Ohio River ...
, from Charlestown. Ferguson lost, but the county seat remained in Charlestown for the next 40 years, as the Indiana state legislature did not want to change it.
[Baird, Lewis. ''Baird's History of Clark County, Indiana'', (1909) pg.284, 286, 94-5]
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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Charlestown, Indiana
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana
Federal architecture in Indiana
Houses completed in 1816
Houses in Clark County, Indiana
National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Indiana
1816 establishments in Indiana
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