Editing Jeffersonville, Indiana (section)

==== Early history ====
Precisely when the settlement became known as Jeffersonville is unclear, but it was probably around 1801, the year in which President Thomas Jefferson took office.<ref name="JeffHist">{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofjeff.net/history/historymain.htm |title=Official History of Jeffersonville |publisher=Cityofjeff.net |access-date=July 28, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720154625/http://www.cityofjeff.net/history/historymain.htm |archive-date=July 20, 2008  }}</ref> In 1802 local residents used a grid pattern designed by [[Thomas Jefferson]] for the formation of a city.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TBvVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA29 | title=Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott, and Washington, Indiana | publisher=Chicago Printing Company | year=1889 | pages=29| isbn=9781548571665 }}</ref> On September 13, 1803, a post office was established in the city. In 1808 Indiana's second federal land sale office was established in Jeffersonville, which initiated a growth in settling in Indiana that was further spurred by the end of the [[War of 1812]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}

In 1802, Jeffersonville replaced [[Springville, Clark County, Indiana|Springville]] as the county seat of Clark County. [[Charlestown, Indiana|Charlestown]] was named the county seat in 1812 but it returned to Jeffersonville in 1878, where it remains.<ref name="JeffHist" />

In 1813 and 1814 Jeffersonville was briefly the ''de facto'' capital of the [[Indiana Territory]], as then-[[governor]] [[Thomas Posey]] disliked then-[[Capital city|capital]] [[Corydon, Indiana|Corydon]] and decided to live in Jeffersonville to be closer to his personal [[physician]] in Louisville. The territorial legislature remained in Corydon and communicated with Posey by messenger.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=tjymxfjAKXgC&q=dennis+pennington Life of Walter Quintin Gresham, 1832–1895] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907104659/https://books.google.com/books?id=tjymxfjAKXgC&q=dennis%20pennington |date=September 7, 2023 }}'' By Matilda Gresham (Rand, McNally & company 1919) page 23-23</ref>