Cannelton Courthouse

Historical marker location:

125 South 7th Street, Cannelton, Indiana

( Marker is on South 7th Street (Indiana Route 66) just north of Taylor Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2005

c. 1896. Perry County Indiana Heritage Project.

Indiana is the birthplace of the first black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but grew up in Indiana, where he attended high school and college.