Historical Marker

Cornland

Site of home, prior to 1809, of Colonel Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, killed at Tippecanoe, 1811. As US Dist. Atty. for Ky., he prosecuted Aaron Burr for treason in 1806. This county, others in Ind., Ill., Mo., named for this able, zealous patriot. George M. Bibb, twice US Senator, Sec., US Treas., 1884-85, and Philip Triplett, US Congressman, 1839-43, later owned Cornland.