Vincennes, capital of Knox county, Indiana, on the navigable Wabash, 52 miles by rail N. of Evansville. It contains a Roman Catholic cathedral, steam flour-mills, &c., and is the oldest town in the state, being settled by the French in 1735. From 1800 to 1813 it was the capital of the Northwest Territory. Pop. (1890) 8853.
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