Cottage Hill, Indiana

Cottage Hill
Unincorporated community
1950 USGS map showing Cottage Hill along Indiana State Road 340
Cottage Hill Location in Clay County
Coordinates: 39°31′01″N 87°08′57″W / 39.51694°N 87.14917°W / 39.51694; -87.14917
Country	United States
State	Indiana
County	Clay
Township	Posey
Elevation	640 ft (200 m)
GNIS feature ID	433013[1]

Cottage Hill is a location in Posey Township, Clay County, Indiana. It is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area. The settlement was home to the Van Buren, Indiana post office for a brief period in the 1830s. The site hosted Cunningham's Tavern in the first half of the 19th century, when the National Road carried much of the traffic between Terre Haute and Indianapolis. The tavern was reportedly a stopping point for the likes of Henry Clay, Martin Van Buren, and Abraham Lincoln. The location also hosted a training racetrack for horses. The Cottage Hill Cemetery, opened 1876, was a stop on the Brazil, Indiana street railway in the 1890s, and some successor lines.