This name was given by Harrison to his "plantation," near Vincennes, long since within the city limits. Henry Cauthorne thus describes it, in his history of Vincennes:

"The grounds around the Harrison mansion, extending to the river, were artistically laid out and filled with the choicest fruits and flowers. … It remained in good preservation as late as 1855. The river front and for some distance back was enclosed with a picket fence of locust timbers firmly planted in the ground. The square in front of the mansion, in laying out Harrison's addition, was reserved for a park. The brick used in the construction of the mansion were manufactured by Samuel Thompson, who received for this work four hundred acres of land about three miles above the city on the Terre Haute road."

This "mansion," the famous one still standing, is said by Cauthorne to have been built in 1804. According to Hubbard Smith, another local historian, it was contracted for in 1805 and completed in 1806.