Corydon

Town in extreme southern Indiana, USA, 32 km/20 mi west of Louisville, Kentucky, and 24 km/15 mi north of the Ohio River; seat of Harrison County; population (1990) 2,700. It is primarily a tourist centre.

Laid out in 1808 on branches of Indian Creek, on land belonging to William Henry Harrison, it became territorial (1811) and state (1816–25) capital, and was the early home of many of Indiana's wealthy. It is a State Historic Site. In July 1863, John Hunt Morgan's Confederate raiders occupied the town after a skirmish with defenders just to the south, in what is considered the only Civil War action on Indiana soil.