Hotels in Terre Haute, Indiana

A little about Terre Haute...

Terre Haute is a city in Vigo County, Indiana near the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 59,614 and a metropolitan population of 170,943. The city is the county seat of Vigo County and the self-proclaimed capital of the Wabash Valley. The federal death row is in Terre Haute at the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex.

Colleges and Universities:
Terre Haute is home to Indiana State University, a public university with a student population just over 11,000. The Princeton Review has named ISU one of the nation’s “best value” undergraduate institutions. The Princeton Review has also placed ISU on its “Best in the Midwest” list of colleges and universities. The private engineering school Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is located just east of the city, and is consistently rated one of the top engineering schools in the nation. The vocational schools Ivy Tech State College and Indiana Business College are also located in the city. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, a four-year, private Catholic primarily women's college, is north of West Terre Haute, Indiana.

Terre Haute is home to the CANDLES Holocaust Museum. CANDLES stands for "Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiment Survivors" and is the creation of a survivor from that deadly period of history – Eva Mozes Kor of Terre Haute.. Her museum attracts visitors from around the world as well as the local community. The museum allows Ms. Kor to share her memories in pursuit of her life's mission never to allow the world to forget what happened in that evil place during those dark years. In 2003 the CANDLES museum was burned down in an arson attack by a young neo-Nazi. The museum has been rebuilt with the help of fundraising drives by a number of organizations and charities as well as individual support. Despite the overwhelming success of the efforts, which replaced the physical structure, several pieces of irreplacable art and artifacts were destroyed or otherwise damaged in the fire and thus have been lost to history.

The Vigo County Historical Society Museum, at the intersection of Washington Avenue and South Sixth Street, boast an extraordinary collection of artifacts maintained in a 150+-year old former residence and the Children's Museum in downtown Terre Haute are other community assets. Swope Art Gallery Museum and Turman Art Gallery also are community assets.