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Indiana, United States
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Corydon, town, seat (1808) of Harrison county, southern Indiana, U.S., 25 miles (40 km) west of Louisville, Kentucky. It was settled in about 1808 on land originally owned by General William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory (1800–12), who named the town for a shepherd in a popular song of the times, “Pastoral Elegy.” It was the capital of the Indiana Territory (1813–16) and of the state from 1816 until the capital was moved to...

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