Dresser, IN

The Paul Dresser Birthplace is located in Fairbanks Park in Terre Haute, Indiana, at the corner of First and Farrington Streets. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is the birthplace and boyhood home of Paul Dresser, a late-nineteenth-century singer, actor, and songwriter, who wrote and published more than 100 popular songs. On March 14, 1913, the Indiana General Assembly named Dresser's hit, "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away", the state song of Indiana. Dresser's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Indiana setting. The local scoop is how Dresser's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Built in 1850, the home was owned by Dresser's parents, Johann Paul and Sarah Dreiser.