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Jeffersonville station

1929 establishments in Indiana1999 establishments in Indiana2003 disestablishments in IndianaFormer Amtrak stations in IndianaFormer Pennsylvania Railroad stations
Jeffersonville, IndianaRailway stations closed in 2003Railway stations in the United States closed in the 2000sRailway stations in the United States opened in 1929Railway stations in the United States opened in 1999Transportation buildings and structures in Clark County, IndianaVague or ambiguous time from July 2023
Kentucky Cardinal at Jeffersonville, August 2001
Kentucky Cardinal at Jeffersonville, August 2001

Jeffersonville station refers to one of two former train stations in Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States. The first, a Pennsylvania Railroad station, operated beginning in 1929 and is currently preserved in a new location. The newer station was opened by Amtrak in 1999 as part of the Kentucky Cardinal service and closed in 2003 after that service was terminated.

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Jeffersonville station
Willinger Lane, Jeffersonville

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N 38.301666666667 ° E -85.751388888889 °
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Willinger Lane

Willinger Lane
47219 Jeffersonville
Indiana, United States
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Kentucky Cardinal at Jeffersonville, August 2001
Kentucky Cardinal at Jeffersonville, August 2001
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Camp Joe Holt
Camp Joe Holt

Camp Joe Holt was a Union base during the American Civil War in Jeffersonville, Indiana, across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky, on land that is now part of Clarksville, Indiana, near the Big Eddy. It was a major staging area for troops in the Western Theatre of the War, in preparation for invading the Confederate States of America. Its establishment was the first major step performed by Kentucky Unionists to keep Kentucky from seceding to the Confederacy. Built on land leased from Colonel S. H. Patterson, it was named in honor of Joseph Holt, who became Buchanan's Secretary of War for about 60 days after John B. Floyd resigned. Holt strongly supported the Union. Colonel Lovell Rousseau opened the facility in June 1861 in order to recruit Kentuckians, mostly Louisvillians, into the Union Army. A pine board with the words Camp Joe Holt was nailed into a tree by the entrance to the camp on the second day of operations by a Captain Trainor. The Camp was built in Indiana due to fears that recruiting camps in Kentucky would encourage Kentucky to secede to the Confederacy. (A Confederate state government would eventually form in Kentucky, but the Union state government never dissolved.) By early September 1861, he had recruited over 2,000 such individuals, which formed the Fifth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the Louisville Legion.The 49th Indiana Infantry was organized at Camp Joe Holt by Colonel John W. Ray, a former city councilman of Jeffersonville. Assisting him in the endeavor was the former member of the Clark Guards, Lieutenant Colonel James Keigwin. This was the only regiment formed in Clark County, Indiana.Camp Joe Holt would serve as a rendezvous hospital in 1862 until February 1864 when Jefferson General Hospital was opened in Port Fulton, Indiana, 1.5 miles upstream. It then reverted to a camp until the end of the war. Mr. Patterson reserved the right to remove the government chapel which would later become St. Paul's Episcopal Church.