Kasson is an unincorporated community in German Township, Vanderburgh County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

[2] Prior to the invention of the automobile and the paving of roads in Indiana, travel often occurred on higher ground atop ridges.

Both are part of the ancient Red Banks Trace, a wilderness road that ran from Henderson, Kentucky to Vincennes, Indiana.

This ancient trail was in existence and used by both animals and indigenous Americans prior to European settlement of the Wabash and Ohio River Valleys.

Historical Marker for Red Banks Trace Indiana Highway 65 runs east and west through Kasson.