Editing Mount Vernon, Indiana (section)

==History==
[[Image:Eagles Home (Mt Vernon, Indiana) 23 09 13 045000.jpeg|left|thumb|Eagles Home]]

Mount Vernon is the county seat and largest city in Posey County, named for General [[Thomas Posey]], Governor of the [[Indiana Territory]]. He grew up at a plantation adjacent to George Washington's [[Mount Vernon]]. He was widely rumored to be Washington's illegitimate son, but this was dismissed by Posey's biographer, John Thornton Posey, a descendant.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780871951960/page/33 |title=The Governors of Indiana |publisher=Indiana Historical Society Press |year=2006 |isbn=0-87195-196-7 |editor=Gugin, Linda C. |location=Indianapolis, Indiana |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780871951960/page/33 33] |editor2=St. Clair, James E |url-access=registration}}</ref>

The first settler in Mount Vernon was Andrew McFaden in 1806, and the settlement was called McFaden's Bluff. It was [[plat]]ted as Mount Vernon in 1816, but continued to be known as McFadden's Bluff for some time.<ref>{{cite book |last=Leffel |first=John C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNgqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA87 |title=History of Posey County, Indiana |publisher=Standard Publishing Company |year=1913 |page=87}}</ref> It was named in honor of Washington's [[Mount Vernon]]. A post office called Mount Vernon has been in operation since 1818.<ref>{{cite web |title=Posey County |url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Posey&searchtext=&pagenum=2 |access-date=1 November 2015 |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History}}</ref>

A number of historic sites have been recognized in Mount Vernon, including the [[Posey County Courthouse Square]], [[Mount Vernon Downtown Historic District]], [[Welborn Historic District]] and the [[William Gonnerman House]], all of which have been placed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>