Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Princeton, IN

Princeton is the largest city and county seat of Gibson County in the Evansville metropolitan area of southwestern Indiana, settled in 1814 on the old Evansville-to-Vincennes stage line.

Princeton was named for Captain William Prince — legend holds that the names of the four commissioners who sited the county seat were put into a drawing, and Prince's name came out.

Princeton's nickname is "The Heart of Southwestern Indiana."

Princeton had 8,301 residents in the 2020 census, living in 3,513 households.

Princeton's landmark Gibson County Courthouse, built in 1884 in the Second Empire style, is so distinctive that it was reproduced as a Department 56 miniature figurine.

Princeton's post office was established in 1816, and its newspaper, the Princeton Daily Clarion, was first published in 1846.

Just outside Princeton, Lyles Station was founded in 1849 by freed slave Joshua Lyles and became a haven for runaway slaves escaping across the nearby Ohio River.

The railroad reached Princeton in 1852, a depot followed in 1875, and the Southern Railway Shops opened in 1892, anchoring the city's railroading era; ketchup maker Heinz later ran a plant drawing on the area's tomato crop.

On March 18, 1925, the Tri-State Tornado — the deadliest tornado in United States history — devastated Princeton's south side, killing 45 people and injuring 150, before dissipating just northeast of the city, making Princeton the storm's final victim.

A coal mine explosion in Princeton on December 9, 1926, killed 29 miners, one of Indiana's worst mining disasters.