The Campus : Building and Location Namesakes

Blackford House

Campus Apartments on the River Walk

Isaac N. Blackford (1786 - 1859) was one of Indiana's first Supreme Court Justices. He moved to Salem, Indiana, in 1812 and served as county clerk. Five years later he moved to Indianapolis when he was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court. In 1824, he upheld the controversial convictions of four Indianapolis men who were convicted for the murders of ten Native Americans known as the Fall Creek Massacre. They became the first European Americans in Indiana to be executed for killing Native Americans. Blackford had significant landholdings including what is now a large swath of IUPUI along West Street.