The first successful Cesarean birth in Indiana took place in Lafayette under the operation of Moses Baker.

Purdue University Airport was the first university-owned airport in the nation.

The second annual Indiana State Fair was held in Lafayette in 1853 on the grounds near present-day Fourth and Kossuth streets.

Kermit the Frog was named after a Purdue professor of philosophy who was a childhood friend of Jim Henson.

Lafayette was founded in 1825 on the southeast bank of the Wabash River, near a spot where the river becomes impassable for riverboats upstream.

Robert Baker graduated from Purdue University with a doctorate in food science. He later invented the chicken nugget in 1963, at the time calling it a “chicken stick.”