Front Door, McGee Cabin
This file appears in: Guinea Bottom: The Earliest Black Settlement in Jeffersonville Township
This cabin on the site of the George Rogers Clark Homesite in the Falls of the Ohio State Park was built as a representation of a typical early 19th century servants’ cabin. The cabin commemorates the lives of Venus and Ben McGee, an African American couple brought to Indiana by Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark.
This file appears in: Guinea Bottom: The Earliest Black Settlement in Jeffersonville Township
Guinea Bottom: The Earliest Black Settlement in Jeffersonville Township
Falls of the Ohio State Park’s George Rogers Clark Homesite in Clarksville, Indiana is located near what was Guinea Bottom, an early Black settlement established for the convenience of the wealthy, powerful, White Clark County residents who came to…