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Jeffersonville, Indiana, often called Jeff, is the county seat of Clark County, Indiana, along the Ohio River. It is directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky to the north along I-65. In 1802 local residents used a grid pattern designed by Thomas Jefferson for the formation of a city, and Indiana Territorial Governor William Henry Harrison decided to name the new city after Jefferson. Jeffersonville would be the only city ever designed by Jefferson.
In 1819 the first shipbuilding took place in Jeffersonville, and steamboats would become key to Jeffersonville's economy. James Howard made his first steamboat in 1834 in Jeffersonville named the Hyperion. This history is best expressed at the Howard Steamboat Museum.
