tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67723711371135336522024-03-05T02:00:03.151-08:00Just A Hoosier GirlAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591214540651769014noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772371137113533652.post-58405881425046012042014-12-17T12:22:00.000-08:002014-12-17T12:23:19.242-08:00Santa Claus Indiana Christmas Now and In July<div class="meta" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.7000007629395px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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Plan a Family Holiday in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Santa Claus">Santa Claus</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.0,-86.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=40.0,-86.0%20(Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Indiana">Indiana</a></div>
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When the town of Santa Fe had to change it's name to get a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_office" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Post office">post office</a>, little did the folks know changing it's name to Santa Claus , would put the town on the map.</div>
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Santa Claus Indiana was established in 1849 in Spencer <u>County Indiana</u>. The town’s original name was '<u>Santa Fe</u>'. In 1856 the town applied for it's first post office. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://postalservicemusic.net/" rel="homepage nofollow" target="_blank" title="The Postal Service">The Postal Service</a> rejected the town of Santa Fe’s first application for services based on the fact the name ,'Santa Fe' were already taken. The town held a meeting to establish a new name. There were several heated meetings designed to give the town a unique name. The town finally settled upon the name Santa Claus Indiana. This name was so unique that no other town in the country bore the name Santa Claus at the time. The exact process by which the town people selected the name Santa Claus is lost to history</div>
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On May 21, 1856, the <u>post office</u> was officially established under the name Santa Claus Indiana. John Sphect was the first postmaster. In 1895 the town changed the name Santa Claus to one word,Santaclaus’. The name of the town went unnoticed by the general public until the 1920s.</div>
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Postmaster <u>James Martin</u> promoted the idea of a Santa Claus postmark, in the 1920s. To take advantage of this unique situation the town again changes its name from one word Santaclaus to the current Santa Claus Indiana. It was the only Santa Claus Indiana allowed to keep the name because of the amount of mail that that name generated for the local post office. The amount of mail generated by the name Santa Claus and the desire of people to be see postmarks from that town created huge logistical problem</div>
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Since 1914 the town has received so many requests for children for replies from Santa Claus, that a group of volunteers answers many of thousands of requests for replies from Santa. The local post office also produces a one-of-a-kind postmark that is designed every year by a local high school student. It is used only during the month of December.</div>
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The town gained the attention the town gained the attention of many nearby entrepreneurs. This was a result of the town’s efforts to answer Santa’s mail. The town was featured in italicized Ripley’s believe It or Not cartoon strip in 1929.</div>
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Milt Harris and Carl Bennett were entrepreneurs, who competed to establish Christmas based amusements in Santa Claus Indiana in the early 20th century . These amusements included a 22 foot statues of Santa and candy castle,. Local toymakers sponsored a series of village scenes r based on fairytales. This all increased the popularity of it’s of visiting Santa Claus Indiana. This led to the establishment of the Santa Claus town newspaper and Chamber of Commerce.</div>
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In 1949 a theme park called Holiday World was established.. Today Santa Claus Indiana is home to many attractions that can be seen all year long. it is home to the Santa’s Candy Castle. Frosyt’s Fun Ctr., Christmas Lake golf course, Splashing Safari and Holiday world.</div>
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Holiday World offers rides for all ages. Splashin Safari is one of the state's best theme parks.<br />
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There are some attractions are family are not going to want to miss in a visit Santa Claus Indiana. Holiday World and Splashing Safari feature th wooden roller coaster called the Voyage. The water park Splashing Safari features the world’s longest water coaster called the beast. The Santa Claus Land of lLights features a bright light show about Rudolph the red nose reindeer. This is the world’s largest campground light display. For the golf lover, Christmas Lake golf course is one of the best 75 public golf courses in the country.</div>
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There are numerous places for your family to eat in Santa Claus Indiana. St. Nicks Café features home cooked meals in a Christmas atmosphere. During the warm summer months, you will want to visit from we want to visit Frosty’s Fun Center for pizza and ice cream. After a busy evening thewill want to visit, the Jingle Bell Rock Family Sports Pub for a drink and great pub appetizers.</div>
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There are many fun places for your family to stay in Santa Claus Indiana whether you’re visiting during the warmer summer months or for Christmas getaway. You can stay at Lake Randolph Campground and RV Resort. They offer a number of family themed reaction activities on site. You can also stay at the Santa’s Lodge a Christmas themed motel. Your family can also enjoy the seclusion of lakeside cottages called Santa’s cottages a few miles from the theme park.</div>
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Even if you are planning to visit Santa Claus Indiana for a day.; you will want to check out the holiday theme shopping opportunities. The Santa Claus Christmas Store features indoor and outdoor lights ,Christmas yard art ,and anything you would need for a great Christmas holiday celebration. Kringle Place features several Christmas craft stores and holiday food store.. The Evergreen Flower and Holly Tree shop features flowers and gifts for every occasion. Santas Candy Castle is a great place to buy all kinds of Christmas confections.</div>
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So for a family holiday that compares to none, visit Santa Claus Indiana where the Christmas spirit is alive everyday.</div>
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Original Conner house at Conner Prairie <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-air_museum" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Open-air museum">living history museum</a> in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.9561111111,-86.0127777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=39.9561111111,-86.0127777778%20(Fishers%2C%20Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Fishers, Indiana">Fishers, Indiana</a>. Photo shot by Derek Jensen (Tysto), 2005-September-03</div>
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Early History of Conner Prairie</h2>
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In 1930 Conner Praire was created as a living history museum to document pioneer life in 1830's Indiana. The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Conner" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="William Conner">William Conner</a> how was restored and given to a trust associated with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.83273,-84.9128888889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=39.83273,-84.9128888889%20(Earlham%20College)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Earlham College">Earlham College</a>. Earlham was a liberal arts school located in Richmond Indiana associated with the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Quakers">Quaker</a> faith. Quakers founded many communities in Indiana including the nearby town of Westfield Indiana. Elli Lilly a pharmaceutical executive was committed to preserving the unique culture of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.0,-86.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=40.0,-86.0%20(Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Indiana">the Hoosier State</a> along the White River.</div>
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Lilly restored all of the out building related to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.9843055556,-86.0313333333&spn=0.01,0.01&q=39.9843055556,-86.0313333333%20(Conner%20Prairie)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Conner Prairie">William Conner house</a> and donated 1,,000 acres of surrounding farmland to the college. It was Mr. Lilly's intention that funds of the sale of the surrounding farm acreage be used to create an endowment to maintain the original Connor homestead as a museum for the area.</div>
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Students at Earlham college went a step further and in 1936 constructed an 1830 era reproduction of a pioneer village on the property.The reconstructed Prairie Town came complete with docents in period custom who told visitors about the experiences of living in early 19th century Indiana. Great pains were taken to find older Hoosiers who could give first hand accounts or a least second hand accounts of their experience of coming to the Indiana frontier as children. Local history and journal accounts of early residents of the area were used to achieve a truthful look at life on the Hoosier frontier. There was always an attempt to preserve and pass on the pioneer craft to future generations such a butter churning, pottery, and spinning.</div>
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In 1974 The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Endowment" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Lilly Endowment">Lilly Endowment</a> transferred control of Conner Prairie over to Earlham College. The school continued to oversee Conener Prairie with a grant from Lilly Endowment until 1992. That year an independent trust was created and the college relinquished much of it's control of the museum . A local board of directors was created and the museum sought affiliation with other living history museums to increase it ability to provide new programs for the community. In 2009 Conner Praire became part of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8888,-77.026&spn=0.01,0.01&q=38.8888,-77.026%20(Smithsonian%20Institution)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Smithsonian Institution">Smithsonian</a> Affiliations Program..Conner Prairie is also list of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a></div>
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Day Trip to Conner Prairie</h2>
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Conner Prairie Today</h2>
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In December of 2010 Conner Prairie received it greatest recognition to date. In a White Ceremony the Musuem received a $10,000 prize and was awarded the Nation Medal for Musuem and Library Service. One of the newest attractions that Conner Praire has introduced since the award is called the ,"The 1863 Civil War Journey". This exhibit features reenactments, audience participation, and other interactive events for the whole family.This Civil War educational event occurs every June and attracts visitors locally and out of state. Other popular event at Conner Prairie is the ,"Taste of the Past" focusing on the pioneer culinary experience and many other outdoor fairs.</div>
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The Willam Conner House was built in 1823. It is considered son of the first brick building in central Indiana. It was the seat of local governemten as the first county commisioners of Hamilton County gathered there when the county as legal entity. William Conner lived in the house until 1837. The family continued to occupy the house until 1874. It was not only a residence but the first offical post office in Hamiltion county Indiana. In 1980 the home was fully restored to it pre civil War condition and now is listed on The National Registrer of Histroric Places.</div>
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The William Conner House is considered to be the first brick building built in the central Indiana. After being built in the year of 1823 it is restored and preserved in Conner Prairie and it was also as meeting place for the country commissioners. Though Conner lived in the house until only 1837 but his family lived till the year 1874 and it has also has been used as post office in the early days of Hamilton Country. In the year of 1980, the William Conner House was listed National Register of Historic Places after when Eli Lilly purchased it in the year of 1935.</div>
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<u>1863 Civil War Journey</u>:</div>
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During this event Priaire Town ages a couple of decades and become the village of Dupont in Southern Indiana. The reenactments and events of this exhibit recall Morgan's Raid by the Confredracy in 1863 into the state of Indiana.</div>
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<u>1836 Prairie town</u>:</div>
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During most of the year Prairie Town exists as a recreation of an early Indiana pioneer village. Pairie Town seeks to recreate life in a lively village that boasts a school house, black smith shop, general store, and school house. Praire Town is fictions , but memoirs and views with older residents of the area were used to recreate as much as possible the unique character of central Indiana in the years of early statehood. Conner Praire was created when the early years of the state had been less than a 100 years before the Museum founding.</div>
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Conner Prairie also set its recreated pioneer community in the year of 1836 and unlike of Civil War Journey, Prairie town is not an actual settlement. Unlike civil war it’s a fictitious recreation of what such settlement must have been in the early days of Indiana statehood. Prairie town has a blacksmith shop, doctor’s office and schoolhouse. Employees help the visitors in understanding the happenings at the Prairie town of Conner Prairie.</div>
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1859 Balloon Voyage<br />Visitors can ride in the largest threaded gas passengers balloons in the world to commemorate the first airmail delivery by John Wise in 1859. The balloon can hold up to 20 passengers and goes up 110 m. The ride is about 15 minutes in length,This event only occurs when weather is permitting and those interested should contact the museum for schedules and fees.</div>
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Civil War Brought To Life</h2>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wabash_and_Erie_Canal_%28Delphi%29.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="A restored section of the in the town of Delph..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="438" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Wabash_and_Erie_Canal_%28Delphi%29.png/350px-Wabash_and_Erie_Canal_%28Delphi%29.png" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="350" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">A restored section of the in the town of Delphi in . Photo looks northeast from Washington Street. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wabash_and_Erie_Canal_%28Delphi%29.png" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elkhart-indiana-st-joe-river.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="The St. Joseph River widens as it flows west t..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="224" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Elkhart-indiana-st-joe-river.jpg/350px-Elkhart-indiana-st-joe-river.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="350" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">The St. Joseph River widens as it flows west through Elkhart. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elkhart-indiana-st-joe-river.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aston_Inn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="English: Front of the , located at 6620 N. Mic..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="263" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Aston_Inn.jpg/350px-Aston_Inn.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="350" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">English: Front of the , located at 6620 N. Michigan Road in , , . Built in 1852, it is listed on the . (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aston_Inn.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michigan_Road_Toll_House.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="English: Side and rear of the , located at 470..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="263" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Michigan_Road_Toll_House.jpg/350px-Michigan_Road_Toll_House.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="350" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">English: Side and rear of the , located at 4702 N. Michigan Road in , , . Built in 1866, it is listed on the . (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michigan_Road_Toll_House.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">When <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.0,-86.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=40.0,-86.0%20(Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Indiana">Indiana</a></st1:place></st1:state> became a state in 1816 it lacked a
passable road system. The few roads that did exist were roads in name only. One
of the first roads that existed in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state>
was called Buffalo Trace. It was bullet on an abandoned Bison trail that
connected the sparely populated areas between <st1:city w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.3019444444,-85.8213888889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=38.3019444444,-85.8213888889%20(New%20Albany%2C%20Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="New Albany, Indiana">New Albany</a></st1:city>
and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vincennes</st1:place></st1:city>.
In 1829 the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.14979,-88.41658&spn=1.0,1.0&q=39.14979,-88.41658%20(National%20Road)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="National Road">National Road</a></st1:address></st1:street>
(Old Route 40) connected <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state></st1:place>
to the populated eastern states.. There were few roads leading to and from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.7666666667,-86.15&spn=0.1,0.1&q=39.7666666667,-86.15%20(Indianapolis)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a></st1:place></st1:city>. The <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">National Road</st1:address></st1:street>
opened up the state to travelers coming from the east to the west.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">National
Road</st1:address></st1:street> started in <st1:state w:st="on">Maryland</st1:state>
and ended in Stylus <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Missouri</st1:place></st1:state>
which was the gateway to west for early settlers. This was the only major road
in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state> at
the time that could be traveled on all year. It was covered with a thick layer
of gravel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">National
Road</st1:address></st1:street> went through <st1:city w:st="on">Richmond</st1:city>
to the new state capital <st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city> and ended
at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Terre Haute</st1:place></st1:city>.
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state> now
wanted a road that connected the cities of the state North and South. The new
road was to be called <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Road" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Michigan Road">Michigan
Road</a></st1:address></st1:street>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">In 1826 the Pottawatomie Indians gave up land by signing
Mississinawa Treaty that would make possible a road to run from the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.9866666667,-89.1305555556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=36.9866666667,-89.1305555556%20(Ohio%20River)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Ohio River">Ohio River</a>
in the south to <st1:place w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.0,-87.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=44.0,-87.0%20(Lake%20Michigan)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Lake Michigan">Lake Michigan</a></st1:place> in the north.
The long established river town of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Madison
Indiana</st1:place></st1:city> was to be the most southern town on the route.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">A state commission in 1828 selected the route from <st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city> to <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Michigan</st1:place>.
The trail head of road was to be a harbor in <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Michigan</st1:place>.
Surveying for the road began in 1828 and most of the road was completed by
1834.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The major flaw of the original plan was it did not
consider some natural obstacle to a straight route .The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Kankakee</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Swamp</st1:placetype></st1:place>
prevented a straight north south route. It was finally decided to direct the
road more northwesterly and have it travel straight north from the already
established transportation hub at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Logansport</st1:city>
<st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state></st1:place>. The road went straight
all the way to the south bend of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.1141666667,-86.4883333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.1141666667,-86.4883333333%20(St.%20Joseph%20River%20%28Lake%20Michigan%29)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)">Saint Joseph river</a> (now <st1:city w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.6725,-86.2552777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.6725,-86.2552777778%20(South%20Bend%2C%20Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="South Bend, Indiana">South
Bend</a></st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state>) and then west to <st1:city w:st="on">Michigan City</st1:city> and <st1:place w:st="on">Lake Michigan</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The southern branch of <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Michigan Road</st1:address></st1:street> was much straighter .From <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Madison Indiana Michigan Road</st1:address></st1:street>
went to <st1:city w:st="on">Greensburg</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state>
and from there straight to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:place></st1:city>.
It was the most traveled route for almost anyone going to <st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city>
from 34 counties even if the road itself only ran through 14 <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state> counties. In 1836 the state decided
to pass a bill called the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Mammoth_Internal_Improvement_Act" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act">Mammoth Internal Improvement Act</a> and to pave the
entire <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Michigan Road</st1:address></st1:street>.
The Panic of 1837 caused the state never to fund the paving of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Michigan</st1:place></st1:state> road and
control of the road improvements fell on the shoulders of the various counties
that the road ran through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Michigan Road</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;"> opened up commerce to
move thorough out the state from the Ohio River to the new state capital at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:place></st1:city>. Many towns
grew up along <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Michigan Road</st1:address></st1:street>
to serve the ever increasing numbers of settlers traveling through the state.
It was not an easy journey for people who traveled along the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Michigan Road</st1:address></st1:street>. It made its way through
small swamps and forest streams cluttered with underbrush and forest debris
from frequent storms. Rocky stretches of the road were with filled with ruts
made travel impossible at times on the road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Michigan Road</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;"> was only truly
passable during the summer and early months of fall. Snow and rain made the
road nothing but a large muddy river during much of the rest of the year.
Travel in the winter could be made impossible by the frequent snow storms
common in the northern part of the state. For settlers who waited for the road
to freeze to make travel easier and stopped on the way to wait out the
blizzards; it must have been frustrating to stop again too wait out the muddy
mess made by Indiana's many unexpected spring thaws.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">None of the hardships of travel on <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Michigan</st1:place></st1:state> road stopped the thousand of
settlers from using it. The road became less traveled with the advent of the
railroads and inexpensive steamboat travel. Much of the original <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Michigan</st1:place></st1:state> road can be
traveled today. Many of the towns that existed on <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Michigan Road</st1:address></st1:street> went from vibrant settler
boom towns to sleepy <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state>
rural villages. <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Michigan Road</st1:address></st1:street>
enjoyed a bit of a comeback with popularity of car travel before interstate
system. It then again became the scenic route for those who wanted to travel
the state north to south at a slower pace. There is much of the original
roadside architecture is still standing today along the now road less traveled;
called <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Michigan Rd.</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The story of <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Michigan
Road</st1:address></st1:street> in <st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state>
is much like the early story of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state>
history. The road lived a brief life as a conduit for settlers to enter a wild
sometimes dangerous world in hopes of a better life only to become a main
country road traveling through moderately prosperous sleepy Victorian towns and
well kept family farms. The history of <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Michigan Road</st1:address></st1:street> took a brief thirty years
to make this tremendous transformation happen..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591214540651769014noreply@blogger.com0Michigan Road, Indianapolis, IN, USA39.8819031 -86.20840240000001139.7844251 -86.369763900000009 39.979381100000005 -86.047040900000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772371137113533652.post-91430384434640235362014-10-31T08:41:00.001-07:002014-10-31T08:43:45.057-07:00Get Inspired In The Village of Spires: Visit Oldenburg Indiana<div class="meta" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.7000007629395px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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Come see this great German Hoosier <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Village">village</a>. Built by Germen Catholics, it is inspiring from it's <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Spire">spires</a> to its' unique stores and resturants.</div>
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In 1851, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Mother Teresa">Mother Theresa</a> Hackelmeier (1827-1860) came to Oldenburg from ViennaAustria. She braved the long difficult journey by herself to educate the communities over flowing orghanages. A cholera outbreak in 1847 had left many orphans in this German community. The Sisters of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Francis of Assisi">Saint Francis</a> Oldenburg went on to start schools for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="African American">African American</a> children in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.7666666667,-86.15&spn=0.1,0.1&q=39.7666666667,-86.15%20(Indianapolis)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a> and other schools throughout the state.</div>
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Oldenburg <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.0,-86.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=40.0,-86.0%20(Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Indiana">Indiana</a> is one of is one of Indiana’s most picturesque town. Oldenburg is known as the village of spires because it has numerous <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Catholic Church">Catholic churches</a> and religious schools. The town was founded in 1837 by group and it still and it still by group of German settlers okay and it still holds its old world charm. The town has bilingual signs in German and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.5,-0.116666666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=51.5,-0.116666666667%20(England)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="England">English</a> to show how much German Catholics influence the area. A walking tour of Oldenburg will reveal wonderful clapboard houses ,tin facades and well preserved brick structures from its early history.</div>
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Architectural buffs will love Oldenburg because of its many spires. A significant aspect of the towns’ architectural appeal is the fact that 80 of the roughly 115 homes in the historic district were constructed of stone or wood. Brick structures were built from the Gehrig Brickyard at the South edge of town. Cast and wrought iron was the worker for Tinsmith Casper Gape richness. Merchants in the community follow the German community by living above or on the same property as their shops.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Order_of_Saint_Francis" style="color: #551a8b; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenburg</a> hold a bread and breakfast in bed and breakfast event every December. This is held at the OldenburgFranciscanCenter. This event includes overnight accommodations and breakfast. The activities included are Luminaries walk and a tour of the Abbey. The evening can be spent enjoying hot chocolate popcorn and family movies. You can find out more about this event by calling FranciscanCenter at 812-933-6437. There are tours of the convent available through out the year.</div>
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There are numerous activities in the historic towns that surround Oldenburg. You can visit the historic state Park site at Metamora and stay overnight in old Oldenburg</div>
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The millstones are powered by a 12 foot waterwheel in the canal behind mill. In 1946 the state of Indiana purchased 14 mile section along the WhitewaterCanal that included the mill. It is now a state historic site.</div>
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Another great place to visit on a weekend trip to OldenburgIndiana is Salt Creek Ranch. The Ranch offers 700 acres of wooded trails and goes into the Metamora historic site. . Salt Creek Ranch offers riding, cabin rental, camping, horse training, and hayrides. And group rates The "Saddle and Paddle" package that includes a 12 mile canoe trip along with a trial ride. Please call 765-698-2044 for more information.</div>
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In Oldenburg itself you will want to check out the quaint shops. The Schwestren Gallery of Arts is one of these shops. Schwester is German for sisters, the gallery is named this because two sisters and their three daughters who run the shop. The Shoestring Gallery offers wonderful quelling and felted wool Christmas ornaments. The eclectic offering in this shop include potty, painting and metal sculpture. You can also buy goat’s milk soap. The gallery is at 2169 Main StreetOldenburg, IN47036 Phone: (812) 933-0360. Gallery hours are Friday-Saturday 11:00AM to 5:00PM and<br />
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Another great shop in Oldenburg is Carrige House (KUTSCHENHAUS) on Main St .Oldenburg. They offer a variety of furniture and collectibles from the 1800’s up to the 1960’s. The Carriage House is housed in an 1890 historic carriage house. They specialize in German smalls (or collectibles) and Bristol vases.</div>
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Oldenburg has many great restaurants that capture that old world flavor. The Kessing Haus Café is a coffeehouse and specialty wood-fired bakery in Oldenburg, Indiana. They offer homemade and locally grown dishes and bakery items. All of their offerings are from local and organic farm providers.</div>
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The coffee bar is notable the coffee is organic, fair-trade. There blends are and roasted in Cincinnati, Ohio by Deeper Roots Coffee and by the Carmelite Monks of Mystic Monk Coffee in Cody, Wyoming. Coffee bar offering include: espresso, café latte, cappuccino, macchiato, Americano, café brave and many more specialty tempting cups of java.The Kessing Haus is located2133 Main Street #6 Oldenburg, Indiana 47036 ,located behind Post Office on S.R. 229, entrance on Washington Street, The regular hours are Monday through Friday, 7:30 AM – NOON You can phone. (812) 932 - 4500 . The Kessing Haus Café only accepts checks and cash.</div>
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The Brau Haus Restaurant is a must place to eat when in the historic town of Oldenburg. There menu offers devious traditional German American dinners and deserts. They are noted for their chicken, German potato salad, and bratwurst. The restaurant is closed on Mondays. The The Brau Haus Restauranth operates Saturday 11 A.M. to 9 P.M. Sunday 11 A.M. to 8 P.M. They are located at 2170 Water StreetOldenburg, IN47036. Please call (812934-4840 for more information.</div>
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There are just too many wonderful places near Oldenburg to stay when you are visiting the village of spires. I am going to tell you about two bed and breakfast of not. There is the Hermitage Bed and Breakfast in nearby Brookville.</div>
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You can enjoy the beauty of the White RiverValley while sipping lemonade from a 112 foot long veranda. If you want to venture onto the lawn you can use a hammock to forget about the stress in your life.</div>
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The house was built by two great Hoosier artists in 1835.They built it to give a home to many of their fellow artist known as the Hoosier Group. The Hermitage features 19 rooms including a library with antique books, magazines and a wood burning fireplace</div>
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The Hermitage is located at <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=D&oi=plus&q=https://maps.google.com/maps?expflags%3Denable_star_based_justifications:true%26ie%3DUTF8%26cid%3D2334894443305543235%26q%3DHermitage%2BBed%2B%2526%2BBreakfast%26iwloc%3DA%26gl%3DUS%26hl%3Den" style="color: #551a8b; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">650 E 8th St</a> Brookville, IN 47012 . Phone (765) 647-5182 for information or reservations.</div>
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Another little known bed and breakfast is Mary Helen’s Bed, Breakfast, and fine dining outside of near Batesville Indiana. This bed and constructed of cypress logs from the swamps of Florida and a variety of native oak trees Mary’s Bed and Breakfast feature rooms with vault ceilings exposed beams act here are two rooms available. Asch had ovate bath and furnished with satellite TV and WIFI internet connection Guest have access to a loft area stock with refreshments and home baked goods.</div>
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This is a perfect place for couples on a romantic getaway weekend. Please contact Mary Helen's Bed, Breakfast & Fine Dining 13296 N. Coo hunters Road Batesville Indiana at 812 834 3468 for information and reservations.</div>
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Plan a weekend getaway for your fa<span style="line-height: 20.7000007629395px;">mily or loved one in the Village of Spires and you will find yourself renewed and inspired on Monday.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Every once in a while
you find a gem at your public library. A very old book that has managed to be
over looked by those making the selection for the library book sale, and it
sits on the library shelves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;"> I recently found
such a book the last stamp on the pouch card was May 1, 1955. I am sure it was
checked out many times since then, but it is not the kind of book people pick
for leisure reading or students for school research.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The title of the book itself was somewhat eye opening;
"Negro in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Indiana" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="History of Indiana">History of Indiana</a>." .It was published in 1953 when the
term "negro" was not considered offensive. It was the work of one
John W. Lyda Of Terre Haute Indiana. It was an accumulation of his research for
the Indiana Negro History Society. There was only one copy purchased by the
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7536111111,-86.3605555556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7536111111,-86.3605555556%20(Logansport%2C%20Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Logansport, Indiana">Logansport</a> Public Library.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Reading the first lines of this book made me know I had
found something very special. A work of love and intense honesty by a man that
loved the history of every day African American people ;in a State that had not
been hospitable to his people. This book has extraordinary value African
American families doing genealogical research in this State. It lists many
people who were active on every level society in Hoosier African American community in
the nineteenth century. The black population was pretty small before the Civil
War. Folk who immigrated to <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state>
after the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a> and were leaders are no doubt listed in the book as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Mr. Lyda knew and boldly told the reader that the history
of this State would have been dramatically different," if it had not been
for the Negro who has lived within the confines of the state during its entire
life. He also noted with honesty that the early black pioneers of this state
had to endure the hardships that all the pioneers in the <st1:place w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territory" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Northwest Territory">Northwest
Territory</a></st1:place> had to endure but with an added burden. He wrote,"
They had to undergo all the hardships that other pioneers endured and to suffer
many legal disabilities imposed upon them by an inhospitable state that finally
forbade anymore <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=10.0,123.0&spn=1.25,1.25&q=10.0,123.0%20(Negros%20%28island%29)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Negros (island)">Negros</a> coming into its borders and outlawed the testimony in
the courts in cases to a white person was a party.(Preface)."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Mr. Lyda went on to note the importance of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Quakers">Quaker</a>
communities in Indiana for it's few black residents, He wrote," To protect
themselves from being captured and kidnapped to be sold into slavery, and to
give their children an opportunity to attend the schools provided for them by
their Quaker Friends, these Negro pioneers usually made their homes near Quaker
settlements (Preface)." He also noted with pride that the black community
in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state>
looked for a better day and for things to change. Mr. Lyda wrote," That
better day did come finally after a four year bloody war in which nearly 2,000
of the 10,000 Negros living in the state at that time enlisted in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Union Army">Union
Army</a>.(Preface)"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">These facts about blacks in Indiana history are well know
in many academic texts but the unique prespective of this book is that Mr. Lyda
researched it from little known sources at the time and relied on some
information from the aged black community at the time who had lived
,"being Negro" in nineteenth century Indiana. I plan from time to
time to write about some of the more obscure information about life for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="African American">African
Americans</a> in 19<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>century
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">I will be renewing the "Negro in The History of
Indiana", giving this little read volume a much needed break from its
place on the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Logansport</st1:place></st1:city>
library's shelves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Negro IN the History of <st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state>:</span></u><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">John W. Lyda, The Negro History Society: 1953; <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Terre Haute</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">IN.</st1:state></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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One of the best places to visit on a crisp fall weekends in the state is New Harmony Indiana, on the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7980555556,-88.0272222222&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.7980555556,-88.0272222222%20(Wabash%20River)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Wabash River">Wabash River</a>. This Utopian town is in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.02,-87.86&spn=1.0,1.0&q=38.02,-87.86%20(Posey%20County%2C%20Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Posey County, Indiana">Posey County</a> Indiana. It is considered part of the Evansville Metropolitan. New Harmony was founded in 1814 under the name Harmony Indiana by a German immigrant named <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rapp" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="George Rapp">Johann George Rapp</a>. He was the founder of a group known as the Harmonies or Rapides. It was one of three towns founded by the German <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_denomination" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Religious denomination">Religious group</a> who believed in communal living. The other two towns were Harmony Pennsylvania and Economy Pennsylvania.</div>
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Born in Impingent, Duchy of Württemberg, Germany, in the 1780s, George Rapp began preaching and to gather a group followers. The group split with the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Lutheranism">Lutheran Church</a> in the Lomersheimer Declaration, written in 1798, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Society" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Harmony Society">the Rappites</a> no longer served in the military or went to Lutheran schools. In 1803, Rapp's followers were being persecuted by the local government. Rapp decided to establish his group in the United States.</div>
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This first commune, 'Harmonies' grew to have 800 inhabitants, the commune was industrious and prospered .The Harmony Society was created and to make sure all property and profits were held in common. Rapp was the undisputed leader of the community and all answered to him. The group also practiced celibacy and strict separation of the sexes.</div>
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In 1814, the first commune was sold to Mennonites for 10 times the original cost oft the land. And the entire commune went to Indiana where their new town again known as Harmony was established .Ten years later the now prosperous Indiana town was sold to Robert Owen , who wished to create a Utopian commune based on Enlightenment ideals.</div>
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The "New Society" lasted but a short two years as they could not come to a consensus on how to govern their commune. Still , the intellects who gathered in the town had a profound effect on society. Owens's had renamed the town New Harmony and renounced geologist William Macular joined the town in 1826. His presence in the town attracted many of the leading educators and scantiest of the day , which arrive on a boat known as the ", Boatload of Knowledge " called the "Philanthropist"..</div>
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Two of Owens sons Robert Dale Owen and David Dale Owen stayed in New Harmony after their father moved to England. Robert Dale Owen served in the Indiana General Assembly and eventually Congress. Robert Dale Owen sponsored the bill that eternally established the Smithsonian Institute. David Dale Owen was the head geologist for the state of Indiana and then the Chief Geologist for the Unitized States. His survey work of 12 Midwestern states mineral resources is credited for opening the Midwest to much of its industrial growth. New Harmony was the site of the U.S Geological Survey from 1836 to-1856T</div>
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The New Harmony Workingmen's Institute was founded in the mid 1830's to promote education in the liberal arts for the common working man. In 1893 a large building was constructed to preserve the art and literature of the community and the surrounding county. Today it is an art gallery, public library, and historical society dedicated to PoseyCounty.</div>
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Another architectural wonder is the Roofless Church that was designed as a non denominational retreats. It was built by the Robert Lee Baffler Trust to reflect the view of Mrs. Jane Bluffer Owen, "only one roof, the sky, could embrace all worshiping humanity."</div>
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The Church is across the street from a park dedicated to theologian Paul Tillich. The pine grove in the park is surrounded by large granite boulders with inspiring passages engraved in them. Tillich Park was dedicated in 1963 by the theologian himself. His ashes were placed in the park on the occasion of Mr. Tillich passing in 1966. Both the Roofless Church and the park are lighted up in the evening for local visitors.</div>
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The Athenaeum is another New Harmony architectural attraction. The Athenaeum won the Institute of Architects award for excellence in 1982. It is now host to the Visitors Center and should be one of your first stops in your visit to New Harmony. Cathedral Labyrinth Sacred Garden and Orpheus Fountain is another New Harmony must see. This labyrinth was designed after The Cathedral of Notre Dame's labyrinth in Charters, France.</div>
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Thrall's Opera House is one of New Harmony's oldest buildings. It was built originally as a community house in 1824 by Robert Own. In 1888 it was converts to a Romanesque Opera House by Eugene Thrall. It has been hosting musical events since it was a community building in 1827. It was home to the famous Golden Troupe in the 1880's.</div>
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The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art a very large facility that has frequent changing exhibits featuring the Midwest's most noted artists. Music lovers will want to visit Harmonies State Park which has frequent folk and blues grass festivals only a few miles out of town.</div>
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The historic district is open seven days a week March 15th through October 31st, 9am-5pm. During November and December, hours may vary. Changes now mean that you can take self guide tour with manned Harmonist sites in the morning and Owen sites manned in the afternoon. For current events and ticket prices please call 812-684-4488 or visit www.newharmony.org.</div>
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Peaceful Pizza , Blessed Bread Pudding, and Wine</div>
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One of the places that is unique in New Harmony is The Yellow Tavern Inn . The first Yellow Tavern was built on the intersection of Main and Tavern in 1815. Unfortunately it was destroyed by fire in 1908. The new incarnation of the Yellow Tavern i 521 Church St,.</div>
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It has a wonderful atmosphere in keeping with the historic nature of the town. The wait staff is noted to be friendly and the prices reasonable. They are known for their pizza , tenderloins( an Indiana tradition) . The Yellow Tavern is said by many to have the best bread pudding in the place.</div>
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Diners in search of romance and wine will want to dine at the Red Geranium.</div>
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Fine dining is offered at the Red Geranium Restraint that is part of the New Harmony Inn. It was opened in 1962 and is know for it’s gourmet takes on Midwestern dishes. It also offers a first class wine list. There are three dining rooms. The Victorian main dining room takes you to a romantic dinner back in time. The Tillich room offers a simple serene atmosphere with panoramic views of the water. For causal dining there is the Green room . The Grapevine Bar in the restaurant offers a garden atmosphere with foliage painted from floor to ceiling.</div>
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New Harmony offers a variety of accommodations for over night.One place to experience the tranquility of New Harmony is to stay at the New Harmony Inn. The Inn is on the shore of the Wabash river and has 90 rooms. The rooms offer many amenities normally found only in local bed and breakfast like fireplaces and balconies with views of the water. The Inn also offers a covered garden pool and relaxing spa services.</div>
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The Inn is said to be furnished on the simple side . The grounds are beautiful and the ponds and woods are perfect for meditative walks or you can view the whole area by renting a golf cart.</div>
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There are also the camping facilities at Harmonies Park. It too is located on the Wabash river. The park has a large swimming pool, picnic areas , and pristine wooded trails The park offers both cabin rentals and camp grounds for overnight stays.</div>
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Flu season in American in 1918 was the first national pandemic for the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20(United%20States)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="United States">United States</a>. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Public health">Public Health</a> official in Indiana faced a war against an ordinary illness that devasted the whole state.</div>
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The public these days in warned on television about the possible negative impact of flu on their communities. We are encouraged to get our <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Influenza vaccine">flu shots</a>. We also are likely to hear about a hospital or nursing home in our area having visitors restricted because of flu out breaks. Our local news reports the number of local deaths related to the flu throughout the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_season" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Flu season">flu season</a>. We are a flu aware nation. In 1918 the public was flu aware as well, but with little means to treat the flu outbreaks effectively they tried to stop its spread by quarantine and policies to limit public outbreak.</div>
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The State Board of Health went on the offensive, looking to other states that had dealt with the outbreak for inspiration. Local county health departments were issued measures that city officials were expected to enforce to stop the spread of the Spanish flu. Some of these measures may seem odd to us in their simplicity; but town officials in most places had a very limited arsenal when it came to controlling outbreaks.</div>
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Ordinances requiring that you hold a handkerchief over your mouth when coughing were common. People who had runny noses were asked to leave public meetings. In mid October it was evident that ordinances aimed at possibly ill individuals; would do little to protect the public from the deadly flu. Most cities and towns banned large public meetings. Public officials closed churches and schools. Even large gathering for funerals for the latest flu victims were banned. Mendenhall's Fever and Chill Tonic and Dr. Jones's Liniment flew off the selves of apothecaries. Herbalist who had been deemed quacks by a public increasingly were suddenly in demand.</div>
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At the heights of the epidemic over 12% of Hoosiers had contracted the flu. There were very few households that were not affected. The Spanish flu was different from other flu, that many times took the very young and very old. Healthy young adults many times died of the flu within three days of it’s initial onset. Out of 50,000 reported cases of flu in Indiana in 1918 almost 10,000 Hoosiers died.</div>
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A one in five mortality rate was a tragedy that would haunt Hoosier families for generations. It spurred public health officials to see pandemics outside of those slower moving ones like sexually transmitted disease and tuberculosis as a public priority. The flu of 1918 led to practical laws being passed to slow future outbreaks common viral diseases. People traveled much greater distances by the early 20th century; and cities were more populous then in the Victorian times. The counrty had always had outbreaks of thingslike yellow fever. Wabash Fever had devastated settlements in the Hoosier state. Yet the Spanish Flu,was the first pandemic that had been so fast moving or deadly to the country.</div>
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There is an excellent online resource to learn about how the Spanish Flu impacted the lives of everyday Americans. It was developed by the Centers for Disease Control to help Americans and public health workers to keep in mind how important national programs encouraging flu shots are. The Influenza Storybook has the personal accounts of flu survivors and their families. It helps put a very personal face on flu outbreaks. The site also includes interview with victims of the 1957 flu outbreak.</div>
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My grandfather was in college at Dartmouth in 1918, and his mother so feared that he would become ill and die far from home she made him return to Ohio. The flu impacted almost all Americans who were already disheartened by the horrors of modern warfare. In the world of mustard gas and deadly flu that took so many of our young people; the optimism that had driven many Americans toward progressive ideals faded. Young folks now knew life was short and to be enjoyed and they would soon roar into the 1920’s with death of destruction of the past drowned out by a few stiff shots of bathtub gin.</div>
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<a href="http://1918.pandemicflu.gov/your_state/indiana.htm" style="color: #551a8b; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://1918.pandemicflu.gov/your_state/indiana.htm</a> Information on Indianapolis ordinances to deal with 1918 flu and the effect of the state overall.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591214540651769014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772371137113533652.post-66958496681261028152014-10-07T15:14:00.000-07:002014-10-07T15:20:59.878-07:00The Hoosier Harrison Connection To The Real First American Thanksgiving<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Benharrv.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="English: Benjamin Barrison V, Signer of Declar..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="400" src="//images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F2%2F24%2FBenharrv.JPG&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="345" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 228px;">English: Benjamin Barrison V, Signer of Declaration of Independence, Father of William Henry Harrison Deutsch: Benjamin Barrison V, Unterzeichner der Unabhängigkeitserklärung der USA, Vater von William Henry Harrison (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Benharrv.JPG" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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Berkeley Plantation, home of the Harrison family (two Presidents), initial construction of Georgian mansion in 1726. In Charles City County, Virginia. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berkeley_plantation_harrison_home.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</h4>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Soon the holiday season
will be upon us and many of us will attend <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Thanksgiving">Thanksgiving</a> Plays done by local
school children to commemorate <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_%28United_States%29" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Thanksgiving (United States)">the first Thanksgiving</a> at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Plymouth Colony">Plymouth Colony</a>. For
whatever reason, has overlooked the fact that the first Thanksgiving in this
new <st1:placetype w:st="on">land</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">America</st1:placename>
did not occur at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Plymouth</st1:city></st1:place>,
but more than a year before at the Virginia Colony of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Hundred" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Berkeley Hundred">Berkeley Hundred</a>.</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The Berkeley Hundred was made up of eight thousand acres
on the north shore of the <st1:place w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.9416666667,-76.4436111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=36.9416666667,-76.4436111111%20(James%20River)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="James River">James River</a></st1:place>. It was
named after one of the colonies founders Richard Berkeley. His family had an
unbroken male line dating back to Norman <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.5,-0.116666666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=51.5,-0.116666666667%20(England)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="England">England</a> in 1066.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The ship Margaret of <st1:city w:st="on">Bristol</st1:city>
<st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region> sailed for <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Virginia</st1:place></st1:state> in 1619. The
voyage was directed by Captain John Woodliffe . The ship carried thirty five
settlers to establish a town in the Berkeley Hundred. The organizers of the
journey instructed the ship's crew and settlers to "the day of our ships
arrival. shall be yearly and perpetually kept as a day of Thanksgiving."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The ship came to shore on December 4, 1619. The settlers
kept this the first Thanksgiving a full year and 17 days before the Pilgrims
did at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Plymouth</st1:place></st1:city>.
They kept this memorial feast of their safe arrival until 1622. In 1622 a
tragedy struck the budding colony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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English: Portrait engraving of William Henry Harrison, 9th president of the United States of America. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Appletons%27_Harrison_Benjamin_-_William_Henry.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</h4>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;"> Settlers had good relations initially with the local
Indians .John Smith stated in his History of Virginia, the "Indians came
unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other provisions
to sell us." Then on this fateful Good Friday the Berkeley Hundred fell
victim to planned coordinated attacks by the Indians on settlements on the <st1:place w:st="on">James River</st1:place>. Nine colonists died that day. Other
settlements like the one at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolstenholme_Towne" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Wolstenholme Towne">Wolstenholme Towne</a> were almost completely
destroyed. <st1:city w:st="on">Jamestown</st1:city> had heeded warnings about
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The colony at Berkeley Hundred was abandoned for a good
many years until it was purchased by John Bland a merchant from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>. John Bland
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General Benjamin Harrison the 3rd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The land stayed in the family . Other famous Harrison's
were <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison_V" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Benjamin Harrison V">Benjamin Harrison V</a> who signed the Declaration of Independence and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="William Henry Harrison">William
Henry Harrison</a> the governor of Indiana and ninth President of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20(United%20States)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="United States">United States</a></st1:place></st1:country-region>.
This gives the site of the first real Thanksgiving on American soil a Hoosier
connection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">List of Settlers Sent in 1619 by John Smith<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">This is a list of the 1619 Settlers as presented and
spelled by John Smith. It lists the length of each settler's indenture to the
land company for payment for their crossing, the amount of land they were
granted to farm, and if they were living or dead at the time he wrote his
history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Ferdinando Yate, gent 3 yeares 50 acres<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
returned 20 martij 1620<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">John Blanchard gent 3 yeares 50 acres<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Richard Godfrey Joyner 3 years 0-0<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(drowned. mort)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Rowland Paynter 3 years 50 acres<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Thomas Coopy Carpenter<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Smythe fowler and Turner 3 years 30 acres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Peerse gent 4 yeares 25 acres<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">John Cole 7 years 40 acres<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Humfry Osborne 3 years 30 acres<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Stephen Torslet 4 years 25 acres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Humphrey Plant Sawier &<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Carpenter (dead) 3 years 30 acres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Thomas Davis Cooper &<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Shingler (dead) 3 years 30 acre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Xpopher Nelme shooomaker 3 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Richard Sherife thelder 3 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Carpenter went with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Mr. Thorpe (dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Richard Sherife the 3 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
yonger Couper (dead<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
[written & then stricken through]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Willm Clement Cook & 6 years 20 acre <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Gardner</st1:place></st1:city><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Thomas Perise for hops & 7 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
oade (dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Xpopher Bourton Taylor 4 years 30 acre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Thomas Molton Cook & 5 years 25 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">gardner</st1:city></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">James Cley Joyner 3 years 0-0<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Charles Coyle a gunmaker 3 years 40 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
and Smyth & for fish<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
pitch and tarre (dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Edward Paynter 7 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(slayne)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Walter Hampton 3 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Samuell Coopy 3 years 15 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Willm Cole 7 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Willm Parker 6 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">John Hurd 5 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Willm Patche 6 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead) Thomas Sandford 6 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Willm Stone 6 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(query to him)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">John Taylor, als stokeley 6 years 25 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">John Jones <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">gardner</st1:city></st1:place>
& 8 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Smyth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Thomas Denton 8 years 20 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Thomas Thorpe 7 years 30 acre<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(slayne)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Willm Mellrickes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Willm Moores<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Robert Taylor<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(dead)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">John Brunnet 1.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Dead 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">1. George Thorpe and the Berkeley Company: A
Gloucestershire Enterprise in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Virginia</st1:place></st1:state>
by Eric Gethyn-Jones (Alan Sutton, 1982).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Are you ready for haunted Hoosier hospitality? The first stop on your goulash getaway should be the Story Inn in historic <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.1666666667,-86.7833333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=36.1666666667,-86.7833333333%20(Nashville%2C%20Tennessee)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville</a> IN. The inn is located on South State Rd and holds the title of the o<br />
oldest <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pub" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Pub">country inn</a> in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.0,-86.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=40.0,-86.0%20(Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Indiana">state of Indiana</a>.<br />
The Story Inn was built in 1851 to accommodate the needs of a growing logging community in the area. It was one of serial redone or reproduces structure from that era. The area included a general store and a saw mill. There is also an old fashioned gas stations with pumps from the, Gold and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deshret" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Deshret">Red Crown</a> company. Presently the Story in serves gourmet food and has a bar poplar with the locals in the basement of the restaurant.<br />
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The current owner believes the inn to be haunted because of the guest books located in each room at the inn. Each room has guest recording paranormal activities. The most haunted room in the inn is apparently the room centered right above busiest part of the restaurant. Guest books have been left in the rooms at the Inn throughout much of it’s history and when the current owner checked the contents of the older books he found many refines to activity of a ghost dubbed the ‘”blue lady”. This is said to be the wife of the Inn’s name sake George Story.<br />
In 2005 a paranormal group established the existence of the ‘blue lady” along with an unidentified male ghost. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Lady_%28ghost%29" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Blue Lady (ghost)">The blue lady</a> is thought to inhabit the room, once known as the ‘garden room’ right above the restaurant. This is noted to be area that documented most of the encounters with this ghost over the years it is said a blue light will attract the blue lady.<br />
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Farther north you will find a haunted hostel with a much more famous resident, not at rest. The Barbee Hotel is located at 3620 North Barbee Road. During the 1920’s it was a popular place for folks from Chicago to enjoy the peace and tranquility of genteel Indiana country life. It also became a popular place for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778%20(Chicago)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Chicago">Chi town</a> gangsters to lay low. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Al Capone">Al Capone</a> apparently likes to visit there after having been laid to rest.<br />
Staff has reported seeing an old man sitting in the restaurant after closing. Thinking him an absent minded customer when staff approached the man to tell him to leave, he simply disappeared. No one saw this man leave through the normal exits...<br />
Gangsters brought their speakeasy show girls from the clubs in Chicago to keep them entertained in the Hoosier hinterlands. Legends has that one of these bathtub gin soaked beautifies was murdered by her thug’s jealous rage. It is said you can hear her wail and feel in cold spots in the place the ghastly deed occurred.<br />
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Al Capone being a ghost of routine, returns to his room at the hotel. That is room 301. Here you will be greeted by strange orbs and the smell of cigar smoke. Guest also report seeing strange mist covered faces appear in photos that they have taken their rooms and around the hotel.<br />
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The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.7616666667,-86.1586111111&spn=0.01,0.01&q=39.7616666667,-86.1586111111%20(Slippery%20Noodle%20Inn)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Slippery Noodle Inn">Slippery Noodle Inn</a> at 372 South Meridian St. in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.7666666667,-86.15&spn=0.1,0.1&q=39.7666666667,-86.15%20(Indianapolis)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a> boosts slaves, cowboys, and prostitutes among it’s ghostly guests. The Slippery Noodle Inn is the oldest commercial structure in Indianapolis; it was built in 1850 as an upscale inn and road house for people arriving in Indianapolis by train. It was originally known as the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.3578,-71.0606638889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=42.3578,-71.0606638889%20(Tremont%20House%20%28Boston%29)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Tremont House (Boston)">Tremont House</a>. The brick building behind the inn was the<br />
original stable for the guests.<br />
In 1860 the name of the inn was changed to the Concordia House and the owner was involved in the Underground Railroad. Escaped slaves were said to have stayed in the basement of the inn on their way to Canada. There is a male slave ghost that appears in the basement wearing cover alls. He is said to have touched people.<br />
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During prohibition, the Inn was known as Moore’s restaurant. During this period the inn was a speak easy; and a popular hang out for the likes of the infamous Dillinger There apparently left bullet holes in a brick wall in the east end of the bar. A ghost of a cowboy passing through that was killed in of a bar fight during this period of time is said to haunt the second floor.<br />
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When prohibition ended, the speakeasy no longer brought in the owner extra money, so the inn became a bar and bordello, entertaining troops passing through Indianapolis. It remained a house of ill repute until 1953. While no violence against these ladies of the night has been documented; It is says that a prostitute in 40’s dress will appear on a balcony inside the inn. The bordello days ended when one man was stabbed to death in a fright over one of the working girls in 1945.<br />
All over the inn there are reports of cold spots, strange noises, and whispering in addition to the full bodied apparitions mentioned above that appear time to time. There is no longer any type of overnight accommodations at the Slippery Noodle Inn.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">Al Capone. Mugshot information from Science and Society Picture Gallery: Al Capone (1899-1947), American gangster, 17 June 1931. 'Al Capone sent to prison. This picture shows the Bertillon photographs of Capone made by the US Dept of Justice. His rogue's gallery number is C 28169'. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AlCaponemugshotCPD.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591214540651769014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772371137113533652.post-91504788424435494602014-09-15T10:32:00.003-07:002014-09-15T10:38:16.291-07:00The Tragic Tale of Hindostan Falls, Indiana<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<st1:city w:st="on"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.6244444444,-86.8508333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=38.6244444444,-86.8508333333%20(Hindostan%20Falls%2C%20Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Hindostan Falls, Indiana">Hindostan Falls</a></span></st1:city><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <st1:state w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.0,-86.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=40.0,-86.0%20(Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Indiana">Indiana</a></st1:state>
is <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state>'s
most interesting <a class="zem_slink" href="http://musicbrainz.org/album/2a38ce60-d94d-4989-be14-ff9386461c31.html" rel="musicbrainz nofollow" target="_blank" title="Ghost Town">ghost town</a>. It was originally part of <st1:placename w:st="on">Daviess</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype> until 1818 when it becomes the
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_seat" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="County seat">county seat</a> of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Martin</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">County</st1:placename></st1:place>. It seemed like
the perfect place for prospective <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Hoosiers-Gene-Hackman/dp/0792843592%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzem-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0792843592" rel="amazon nofollow" target="_blank" title="Hoosiers">Hoosiers</a> to settle. A small creek ran through
the center of the settlement and emptied into the <st1:place w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_River_%28Indiana%29" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="White River (Indiana)">White
River</a></st1:place>. It was a perfect place to put a water run gristmill because
there was a small water fall below the ford and at the bottom was a flat
sandstone area. You can still see the hewed holes that supported the piling
that held up the gristmill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Frederick Shoulz the then sheriff of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Daviess</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
found this tract of land and purchased it on speculation. In 1816 Mr. Shoulz
opened a tavern and start running a ferry on the river. The spot at that time
was called, Rock Ribbon Springs. The ferry was a much needed asset for the area
for settlers in that part of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state>.
Many times travelers tried to cross the White River at the ford and ended up
falling into the shallow rushing water of the <st1:place w:st="on">White River</st1:place>.
The tavern provided a much needed place to stop and rest for many of these
travelers weary from their journey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">In 1818 Fredrick Shoulz owned a tavern, gristmill , ferry,
and 1,000 acres of land. Many of the settlers who had been traveling westward
decided that Rock Ribbon Springs was a perfect place to settle. The game was
plentiful and the fishing good. The increasing number of travelers on their way
west , found Hindostan a decidedly good place for a prosperous frontier town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The town of <st1:city w:st="on">Hindostan</st1:city> Falls
was plated in 1819 and made the county seat of the newly formed <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Martin</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">County</st1:placename></st1:place>.
A company called the "Proprietors of Hindostan" came into being. The
town name was based on the travels of one of the early investors ,who had
traveled to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333%20(India)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="India">India</a></st1:country-region></st1:place>.
They hired J.W. Rawlings to survey the town and it was broken up in the 324
lots that sold for $200 dollars a piece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The founding of Hindostan looked to be proving to be a
prosperous venture as the Mr. Shoulz had purchased the land for $2.00 and acre
from the government. Most of the land was brought by settlers on promissory
notes .The town grew quickly. In the 1820 census the town listed 33 heads of
household.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Early in 1820 the town boasted 18 well built permanent
dwelling, two mills, a black smith, tannery, and locally well known stone
factory known as the Hindostan Whit . In November 1820 tragedy hit the town and
sealed the fate of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Hindostan</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Falls</st1:placetype></st1:place> as a town. In that
month 15 residents contracted <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Yellow fever">Yellow Fever</a> or Cholera and died. The disease
continued to kill of large numbers of the residents who did not flee. The
mysterious fever finally ceased in the town in1822. The town having been to a
large part abandoned, could not be used any longer as the county seat. The
county seat was moved across the river to a town called <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.8230555556,-79.8455555556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=32.8230555556,-79.8455555556%20(Mount%20Pleasant%2C%20South%20Carolina)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Mount Pleasant, South Carolina">Mount Pleasant</a> which is
today also a ghost town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The next tragedy to have befallen the last few investors
of Hindostan was the death of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasurer" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Treasurer">county treasurer</a> to the fever. He had
arranged for the transport of the funds estimated to be about 15,000 dollars to
the new county seat in Mount Pleasant. It was said that most of the treasury
existed in gold coin. The coins mysteriously disappeared on the journey never
to have been found. Some believe the fevered treasurer had buried the coins
somewhere between Hindostan Falls and Mount Pleasant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The town of Hindostan Falls existed as town until 1828
;when that post office was closed and the town officially ceased to exist. The
surviving families that had fled during the fever returned to try to revive the
town after 1822 All attempts failed to revive the town because most families
had never paid fully for their plats brought on credit. The company that had
financed the speculation the, Proprietors of Hindostan had dissolved the same
year the fever had claimed the last life of the settlers who had stayed. The
town of Hindostan Falls in the summer before the fever hit had 1,000 residents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The only permanent residents who will remain eternally in
Hindostan are those buried in the local cemeteries. Their graves are the only
real testament to the fact that the town of Hindostan Falls ever existed at
all. The names of these residents can be seen in the following grave yards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Hall Cemetery - Latitude: 383923N; Longitude: 0864931W -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
located southwest of Shoals, in Center Township.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">McBride's Cemetery - Latitude: 384353N; Longitude:
0864634W -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
located near the E. Fork of White River, north of Shoals, and east of Dover
Hill, in Center Township.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Sholts Cemetery - Latitude: 383820N; Longitude: 0864952W -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
located southwest of Shoals, in Center Township.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591214540651769014noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772371137113533652.post-59396760739783013012014-09-09T11:19:00.000-07:002014-09-09T11:19:50.993-07:00Three Great Victorian Neighborhoods in Indianapolis<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Riley8394.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="Statue of James Whitcomb Riley in Greenfield, ..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="534" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Riley8394.JPG" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 300px;">Statue of James Whitcomb Riley in Greenfield, Indiana (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Riley8394.JPG" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Indianapolis_Old_Northside.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="English: Fall Creek Place, Indianapolis, India..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="206" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Indianapolis_Old_Northside.jpg/350px-Indianapolis_Old_Northside.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="350" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">English: Fall Creek Place, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 2008. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Indianapolis_Old_Northside.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:300_block_of_N._East_in_Indianapolis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="English: Houses on the eastern side of the 300..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="263" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/300_block_of_N._East_in_Indianapolis.jpg/350px-300_block_of_N._East_in_Indianapolis.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="350" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">English: Houses on the eastern side of the 300 block of N. East Street in , , . This block of East is part of the , a historic district that is listed on the . (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:300_block_of_N._East_in_Indianapolis.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mayleeno.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="English: Front of , located at 416-418 E. Verm..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="263" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/The_Mayleeno.jpg/350px-The_Mayleeno.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="350" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">English: Front of , located at 416-418 E. Vermont Street in , , . Built in 1914, it is listed on the , and it lies within the boundaries of a Register-listed historic district, the . (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mayleeno.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Whitcomb_Riley_House_-_Charles_L._Holstein_House.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="English: James Whitcomb Riley House / Charles ..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="242" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/James_Whitcomb_Riley_House_-_Charles_L._Holstein_House.jpg/350px-James_Whitcomb_Riley_House_-_Charles_L._Holstein_House.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="350" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">English: James Whitcomb Riley House / Charles L. Holstein House. James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home within the Lockerbie Square Historic District in Indianapolis. Category:Images of Indianapolis (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Whitcomb_Riley_House_-_Charles_L._Holstein_House.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Whitcomb_Riley_House_in_Indianapolis%2C_front_and_western_side.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="English: Front and western side of the James W..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="263" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/James_Whitcomb_Riley_House_in_Indianapolis%2C_front_and_western_side.jpg/350px-James_Whitcomb_Riley_House_in_Indianapolis%2C_front_and_western_side.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="350" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">English: Front and western side of the James Whitcomb Riley House, located at 528 Lockerbie Street in , , . Built in 1872 and since converted into a museum, it was named a in 1962. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Whitcomb_Riley_House_in_Indianapolis%2C_front_and_western_side.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<st1:place w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.7666666667,-86.15&spn=0.1,0.1&q=39.7666666667,-86.15%20(Indianapolis)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a></st1:place> is a vibrant changing city, not a cornfield
with a racetrack as many presumed. It was too a large degree settled by stoic
and prosperous <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="German American">German immigrants</a> in the mid 1800’s. These immigrants left a
mark on the city in the really great neighborhoods they established. Many
continued to live in these neighborhoods until the mid fifties when suburbs
lured young families to the outskirts of the <st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city>. These neighborhoods were still
occupied by many new ethnic groups to the area over the year, sometimes adding
flair to an area that it not really have in the past. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Neighborhoods like
Woodruff and later <st1:city w:st="on">Irvington</st1:city>
were established to give the prosperous classes from all the immigrant groups a
way to experience the park like living of a small town near the commerce of the
city. The isolation did not last long as a Victorian era closed new groups like
the “lace curtain” Irish were establishing their own unique neighborhoods with
modest homes and businesses at their previously isolated edges. <o:p></o:p></div>
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During the 60’s
many of these areas made a gallant attempt to keep their unquietcharacter, they
in some ways experienced decline but in other ways were defined and enriched
with new inhabitants. In the late seventies and early eighties many of these
great places were rediscovered for the historic architecture and famous past
residents. Today some our wholly restore and other have great urban flavor of
wealth, poverty, art, and tradition that draws a new generation of urban
families to their blocks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<st1:street w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockerbie_Square" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Lockerbie Square">Lockerbie Square</a></st1:street> is one of the structurally
oldest neighborhoods in <st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city>.
It‘s graceful mid 19<sup>th</sup> Century homes survived various periods of
urban growth and decline. <st1:street w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.7722222222,-86.1472222222&spn=0.01,0.01&q=39.7722222222,-86.1472222222%20(Lockerbie%20Square%20Historic%20District)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Lockerbie Square Historic District">Lockerbie</a>
Square</st1:street> was designated as qualifying for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="National Register of Historic Places">National
Register of Historic places</a> in Marion County Indiana in 1973. Like many Midwestern
historic neighborhoods it is noted for having a nice variety of Italianate, Federal,
and Queen Anne style homes. It was platted my Scottish Immigrant named George
Lockerbie in the late 1840’s. It sits on the northeast corner of East and <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state> streets. The
neighborhood is just south of one of Indy’s hottest alternative neighborhoods
known as <st1:street w:st="on">Mass Ave.</st1:street>
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Originally, the
neighborhood was called <st1:city w:st="on">Germantown</st1:city>.
It was home to the numerous prosperous German Immigrants from about 1849 to
1880. The area is considered one of <st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city>
walk able neighborhoods and soon when <st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city>
began to prosper in the downtown area in the mid 1880’s it became one of the
more desirable neighborhoods for <st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city>
growing Victorian middle class. It’s
most well known resident of was James Wit comb Riley who lived in the neighborhood
for two decades.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is very
little left to indicate the German Heritage of the area here are tierces from
the period. A German Methodist church on the corner of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.0,-74.5&spn=3.0,3.0&q=40.0,-74.5%20(New%20Jersey)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> and Michigan
St still exists Trinity Lutheran Church on the northeast corner of Ohio and East Standee of the
largest churches built in the area was to serve the German Catholic St. Mary
built in 1857. Both churches have been demolished. St. Mary’s relocated to <st1:street w:st="on">New Jersey St.</st1:street> in
1912. This are was also home to the original <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">St. Vincent</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Hospital</st1:placetype></st1:place>
and Home for the Aged Poor run by the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Sisters_of_the_Poor" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Little Sisters of the Poor">Little Sisters of the Poor</a> started in
1875. <st1:place w:st="on">St. Vincent</st1:place>’s was located on Vermont St.<o:p></o:p></div>
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James Ray-Butcher House was home to the <st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place> over nor who served from 1825 to
1831 is located in the neighborhood. It was moved to the neighborhood 1977. It
is <st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city>
oldest known house having been built in 1835. It used to occupy the space that
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Marion</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">County</st1:placename></st1:place> jail stands now. Most visitors
enter the neighborhood. They come to visit
the home of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitcomb_Riley" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="James Whitcomb Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a> for the last two decade of his life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">John H, Nicked was a very successful cracker make built a
very stylish home in the neighborhood in 1873. It was an Italianate home at <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">528 Lockerbie Street</st1:address></st1:street>. His son in-law Major Charles Holstein was
friends with James Whitcomb Riley. A frequent visitor and then boarder he spent
well over twenty years in the house. Known for being an exocentric bohemian the
Hoosier Poet was said to walk the neighborhood spinning yarns for neighborhood
children and giving out candy<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">One of the most continuously occupied <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:place></st1:city> historic neighborhoods is <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.1361111111,-84.5030555556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=39.1361111111,-84.5030555556%20(Fountain%20Square%2C%20Cincinnati)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Fountain Square, Cincinnati">Fountain Square</a></st1:address></st1:street> the
arid was farm land before 1835 when it was purchased by Calvin Fletcher and
Nicholas McCarty. This area too had growth fueled by many of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state>’s German immigrant families. The <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Virginal Ave</st1:address></st1:street> area
became commercial in the 1860’s <o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">The area was known as the,”tended “when the Citizens Street
Railway Company laid tracks there in the mid 1860’s. A turnabout was created at
the intersections of <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">Virginia Ave</st1:street>,
<st1:city w:st="on">Shelby</st1:city></st1:address>, and Prospect Streets. The
list of businesses in this area that are iconic to the whole city is endless.
This is a small sampling.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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Fountain Square
State Bank (1909),<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fountain Square Post Office (1927),<o:p></o:p></div>
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Have camp and Dirk's Grocery (1905),<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cohering & Son Warehouse (1900),<o:p></o:p></div>
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), the Frank E. Reese
Company (1904),<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wiese-Wenzel Pharmacy (1905)<o:p></o:p></div>
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, the
Sommer-Roempke Bakery (1909), the<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fountain Square Hardware Company (1912),<o:p></o:p></div>
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Horuff & Son Shoe Store (1911),<o:p></o:p></div>
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The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Fountain</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Block</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Commercial</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Building</st1:placetype></st1:place> (1902<o:p></o:p></div>
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The neighborhood
was also noted for it’s unique contribution to Indianapolis Theater. It boosted
the most theaters in the <st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city>
area from 1910 to 1950. These included movie theaters, vaudeville theaters, and
amateur dramatic theaters. The area declined with the suburban growth of the
1950’s and became improvised and forgotten. The historic fountain in <st1:street w:st="on">Fountain Square</st1:street> was
removed to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Garfield</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place> in 1954. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The area has
experienced a comeback, but it still reflects of many decades of urban decline
and grit. It is becoming once again Indy entertainment micas. It has a number
of great kinky restaurants. The art flourish in the area with many galleries
and unique shops. It is home to Wheeler Arts Community and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Murphy</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Art</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Center</st1:placename></st1:place>. It is quite a bit more of an
authentically urban bohemian neighborhood then Broad ripple or the highly
polished <st1:street w:st="on">Mass Ave.</st1:street> <o:p></o:p></div>
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The area has experienced
a unique rise of the rival of swing dancing, very similar to the kind going on
in the lively clubs there in the 1940’s.However even then the area would not
have had the flair of more urban area because the Hoosier temperament tends to
be a little on the bland German farmer side .<o:p></o:p></div>
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<strong><span style="background: #FDFCF1; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">James O.
Woodruff was from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Auburn</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place> and came to Indy as a civil
engineer to work on the water works. He was taken by the beauty of the wooded
area joist east of the city. It however, with no real tradable roads could take
a hour by wagon to reach this lovely area on the outskirts of growing <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city></st1:place>, <o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background: #FDFCF1; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In 1871
he purchased this area and opted to create a park like setting of stately
Victorian homes that would give <st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city>
growing elite upper class a way escape the grime and grit of the increasingly
industrial <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:place></st1:city>. In 187 3 he completed his home in <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Woodruff Place</st1:address></st1:street>. He
laid out very large palettes on three streets with esplanades, Italian fountains
and statuary. The focus was the cast
iron multi tiered fustians Very large
and extremely ornate Victorian homes featuring the Italianate, <o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background: #FDFCF1; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> English Tudors, Queen Anne’s, and many more
dominate the neighborhood. These homes were some of the largest built at the
time. The homes in the neighborhood date
from the 1880’s to the early 1900’s. During the twenties when some of the
larger home burned, ornate and exclusive apartment buildings were built. Many of the servants of and tradesman whoa
worked on the homes built modest cottages with ornate craftsman’s shift to
reflect some of the work done on the big homes in a small suburban area that
grew outside of <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Woodruff Place</st1:address></st1:street>
called Cottage Home. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background: #FDFCF1; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Woodruff
was determined to keep the growing city out and incorporated as it’s own town. Children
who attended the public schools on the outskirts of the neighborhood paid tuition. It was the homes and families of the
neighborhood who inspired Booth Tarkington to write the <” The magnificent Amber
sons”. During the Depression many Woodruff families lost their fortunes and
were forced to take in borders or break up their very large homes into
apartments. The housing shortage of the 1940’s caused many long time families
to sell their large homes to rental groups who father canalized the magnificent
homes. Fortunately some families stayed and maintained their homes against the odes.
A very active and aggressive neighborhood association has worked for over 4
decade to preserve the unique character of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:place></st1:city>’s park like first suburb.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background: #FDFCF1; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The neighborhood is full of young families
spending their lives restoring these old homes to their previous glory and
continuing the tradition of children playing in the fountains and neighbors
talking on porches. I raised my kids in this neighborhood as a renter. The
neighbor hood welcomes a mixture of urban singles, older couples restoring
homes in their retirement and young families looking for large homes in a great
neighborhood. Still somewhat a victim of urban decline the neighborhood is
still one of the best places to raise a family in urban Indy. There is a great diversity
in the neighborhood, but a genuine small town feel.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></div>
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Chronicle of Your State in Picturesnuttmegger woodruff place.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591214540651769014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772371137113533652.post-31085861928641362162014-09-04T08:46:00.002-07:002014-09-04T08:46:26.050-07:00The Little Known Ghost Town of Barbersville Indiana<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">English: This is a map of Jefferson County, Indiana, USA which highlights the location of Madison Township. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_highlighting_Madison_Township%2C_Jefferson_County%2C_Indiana.svg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">English: Jefferson County, Indiana Courthouse. Built 1854-1855 (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jefferson_County_Indiana_Courthouse.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">Barbersville a ghost
town in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8786111111,-85.2761111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=38.8786111111,-85.2761111111%20(Shelby%20Township%2C%20Jefferson%20County%2C%20Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Shelby Township, Jefferson County, Indiana">Shelby township</a> in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.79,-85.44&spn=1.0,1.0&q=38.79,-85.44%20(Jefferson%20County%2C%20Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Jefferson County, Indiana">Jefferson County, Indiana</a> was probably preceded by
the municipality by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=55.9530555556,-3.18888888889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=55.9530555556,-3.18888888889%20(Edinburgh)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, which platted on November 3, 1815 .This town was
recorded in land contracts in the county of Jefferson. No legal definition of
ground was included, but aged property chart showed the landowners to be ,
Wilson Buchanan, of George Benefiel, and of the James Whitton. All these men
had the farms in the area of Barbersville.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">The Barbersville <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_office" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Post office">post office</a> officially began
operations on of December 7, 1826 until. November 19, 1838 Then it was
transferred to Buchanan Ripley county. The mail service was then provided by
the post office of Canaan The government restored the post office of
Barbersville June 27, 1848, and it functioned until May 31, 1906, when the service
was again transferred to <st1:place w:st="on">Canaan</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">The first post office was run out a general
store that sold hard to get commodities such as sugar and coffee . In December
of 1848 local record showed that the town had 15 platted lots and three
streets. These included <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Main
Street</st1:address></st1:street>, <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Street" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Cross Street">Cross
Street</a></st1:address></st1:street> , and Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">The Historic Atlas of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.0,-86.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=40.0,-86.0%20(Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" target="_blank" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>, published in
1876, enumerates its population as 100 in1870. The town never was separately
enumerated in the censuses. The population was figured by the number of
addresses that listed Barbersville as post office. William H.Kramer operated a
grocery in the town from 1857 until his death in 1911.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">The 1890 Gazetteer of Indiana described the
municipality as having a population of 50 households. Grain, cattle, and fruit
were the main products produced by the community. A local school that offered
education through high school operated in the community until the end of the
18th century. The town also had a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_of_the_Peace" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Justice of the Peace">Justice of the Peace</a> until 1895. There was a
local corn mill that operated two days a week when the weather allowed. This
mill is thought to have been still in operation until the early 20th century.
The town at its peak had two grocers, cattle auction, farm implements store,
and fertilizer business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">The town became a ghost town in the early 1900's
as transportation advancements allowed people who farmed to travel more easily
to more populated places. There are no residences or commercial building within
a two mile radius of the place where the town of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Barbersville</st1:place></st1:city> once stood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">There is very little information about
communities such as Barbersville. There are three cemeteries in <st1:city w:st="on">Shelby</st1:city> township in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Jefferson</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
This makes genealogical research in this area very difficult. There may be more
information about the character of the community in vanity biographies in that
county, especially of public officials such as the Postmaster or Justice of the
Peace. There was no information about churches in Barbersville . I find it
unlikely that with a population of a 100 there was not at least one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">Barbersville was part of an area known to be
part of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Underground Railroad">Underground Railroad</a>. It was rural and isolated during most of its
existence. Barbersville may have a very interesting history of abolitionist
activity that we may never know about . In the volume JEFFERSON COUNTY(By W. P.
Hendricks, Esq.) Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of
Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Jennings_%28game_designer%29" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Scott Jennings (game designer)">Jennings, Scott</a> and Washington
published in 1889 the anti slavery attitudes of this area was discussed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">Mr. Hendricks said ," This county was
settled largely by a class of people coming from slave States, who were
convinced that human slavery was a sin, and for that reason fled from it in
order to raise their families in a territory where its blight would not affect
their children. As the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Congress" rel="wikipedia nofollow" target="_blank" title="Act of Congress">Act of Congress</a> passed July 13, 1787, establishing the
territory north-west of the <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ohio</st1:place></st1:state>
rive, provided: "Article 6 There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of
crime." These men made <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state>
their home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">This feeling of the wrong about slavery was
only strengthened by their residence here, and finally developed into what was
known as the "Underground Railroad." This incorporeal corporation had
two distinct routes through <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Jefferson</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>. The eastern route
having its entrance in the region of Eagle Hollow, and route of travel by way
of "Ryker's Ridge," along Indian Kentucky Creek through Shelby
township, thence towards Canada. The western route had its entrepot in Saluda township;
route of travel through <st1:state w:st="on">Hanover</st1:state>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Smyrna</st1:city></st1:place>, Lancaster and
Monroe townships into Ripley county. There were many stations along each of
these routes. At each station, there was generally a change of conductors. A
very lively business was carried on along this road. Many of the active
employees are still living.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">Many of them were known to the detectives of
those days, but so well and secretly did they carry on their work, and so true
where they to each other, and to what they held to be the great principle of
right for which they strove, that but few convictions were ever made under the
law, which they were breaking, or at least disregarding. They will have their
reward. It was very seldom that a convoy was seen during daylight. The mode of
operating has never been fully divulged, but it ought to be; and a full history
of this work and the men engaged in it would make a most fascinating book.
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Only those residents buried in the three local cemeteries know if Barbersville
residents gave sanctuary to runaway slaves.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">English: Front and southern side of the , a located at the intersection of Marion and Jefferson Streets on the Miami County side of Converse, , . Built in 1918, it is listed on the . (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Converse-Jackson_Township_Public_Library.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Converse, <st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state> is on State Route 18 between US 31 and I-69, near
<st1:city w:st="on">Marion</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Peru</st1:country-region>,
Wabash, and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kokomo</st1:place></st1:city>.
It is definitely a place worth a weekend outing. Many of the businesses are
closed on Sunday so it is best to visit on a long weekend, Saturday being
ideal. The best reason to visit Converse Indiana is pie and wine. I will say a
little more about this later. It is one of those great out of the way town's
that everyone is excited to discover usually when they are lost on the way to
somewhere else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">History<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The town where present day Converse Indiana stands was
laid out in 1849 by Willis Elliot and O.H.P. Macy and was called <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Xenia</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state></st1:place>.
The first house was built by Henry Overman in the summer of 1850. It was a log
cabin that stood on <st1:place w:st="on">Delphi</st1:place> road. An addition
was later added to the cabin to serve as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Xenia</st1:city>
<st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state></st1:place>'s first store. The store
customers had to walk through Mr. Overman's house in order to reach the store.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The first real store in Converse was opened in 1852; by
Mr. Macy. The building was used as a general store for many years and used by a
Daniel Mendenhall. The original structure of the town was laid out to thirty
two lots on four streets. The four streets; Jefferson, runs north and south and
is crossed by Wabash, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Marion</st1:place></st1:city>
and Sycamore. Plats were added as the town grew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Converse, or <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Xenia</st1:place></st1:city>,
experienced a great deal of growth at the close of the Civil War. The Pan
Handle Railroad ran through the town<b>.</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Then
saw-mills were established in the vicinity and large quantities of lumber were
from the town. The discovery of natural gas also leads several businesses to
establish themselves in the town of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Xenia</st1:place></st1:city>.
e the Xenia Hoop Works, the Woolen Mills, the Hoosier Canning Company, the
Pearless Glass Company, the Chandelier Works, a carriage factory, and the
Malleable Steel Works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">On the prosperity of early Converse in the History of
Miami County Indiana it is written:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">"Around the turn of the century Converse was the
principle shipping point on the Pan Handle Railroad between <st1:city w:st="on">Marion</st1:city>
and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Logansport</st1:place></st1:city>.
At that time Converse had a bank with a capital stock of $25,000, a Home
Telephone Company, some manufacturing enterprises, a large grain elevator, more
than a few mercantile establishments, along with a number of attractive
residences<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">In the 1900's the Miami County Agricultural Association
held its annual fair and horse races at Converse became known as the 'fair
community". I have not found out why today's Converse ceased being <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Xenia</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state></st1:place>.
It would be something to ask the locals.<o:p></o:p></span><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="https://ytimg.googleusercontent.com/vi/R_xiqyZBQvs/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/R_xiqyZBQvs&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/R_xiqyZBQvs&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The Herschberger Essen Haus is a typical small town <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state> diner where the food is good, fattening, and cheap. It is Midwestern small town fare with the best value being breakfast for fewer than five bucks including coffee. It is not your typical small town diner when it comes to Ruth's Pies. The Strawberry - Rhubarb is so good customers have been known to drive for forty miles for it. Truth is all the pie is to die for and the sugar free pies available means everyone can indulge. We tried the peanut butter chocolate pie and it was worth driving forty miles for. Other great things to eat at Herschberger Essen Haus are the apple dumplings and the pumpkin rolls. The restaurant is located at <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">223 N Jefferson St</st1:street> <st1:city w:st="on">Converse</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">IN</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">46919</st1:postalcode></st1:address> - (765) 395-5905. The
restaurant is closed Sunday and opened daily from 6am to 2pm. I would call to
check if there are times that the restaurant is open later. They used to have
some days they were open till 8pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;"><a href="http://www.oakhillwines.com/"><span style="color: #0062a6; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Oak Hill
Winery specialty is the fact that we make our wines to appeal to new wine
drinkers more so then wine enthusiasts." The Oak Hill Winery offers the
following wines.</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is
located near the restaurant and it is well worth chasing your pie with some
fine Hoosier Wine. The winery is housed in an 1895 Carriage House. This winery
is for everyone not just the wine expert. The quote on their website says it
all;"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Unsweetened wines:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">JALAPA-</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;"> crisp and flavorful,
even sweet drinkers like it!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<st1:placename w:st="on">PIPE</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">CREEK</st1:placetype>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">FALLS</st1:placetype> - a Vidal that crisp and fruity<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">IRON</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">BRIDGE</st1:placetype></st1:place> - a Riesling that tasty, yummy!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
MISSISSINEWA WHITE - A classic white wine made with Seyval grapes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> ROANN - wine, interesting!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">INDIANA</st1:place></st1:state> APPLE
- our dry apple wine<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
HANGING ROCK - a new Foch, the 2008 vintage is in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
RIVERWALK (LR) - its Chambourcin and Cabernet Franc! ALMOST GONE -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
SEVEN PILLARS - this fruity favorite is back with a new vintage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Sweetened wines:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">WINDFALL - a barely sweet Vidal with great flavor<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
SWEET SALAMONIE - good old Riesling made German-style<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
SWEETSER - An old favorite, tangy taste!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">PERU</st1:place></st1:country-region>
PEACH - 100% pure peach juice, incredible flavor, 6+ years old<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
FAIRMOUNT - Sweet and smooth, a best seller!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">KOKOMO</st1:place></st1:city> CIDER - a sweet apple wine that's great warm!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
BUNKER HILL - Its concord and it's our best seller!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
RED BRIDGE - a berry raspberry wine<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
STOCKDALE - It's here now, a cherry wine<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
WAWPECONG - an interesting berry blackberry wine<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
MEAD MARION (LR) -wow, its honey you can drink, small supply, almost gone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">PRICING: Standard wines: 1-2 bottles $9.99 each; 3-6
bottles $8.99 each; 6-11 bottles $8.49 each; 12+ $7.99 each; Wine Club Members
$7.49 each<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
----LIMITED RELEASE (LR) WINES: $12.99 a bottle, $9.99 for wine club members.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">They are open January 1 to June 1 1-6 PM Saturday and
Sunday only<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
June 1 to December 31 we are open 1-6 PM seven days a week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">A Special event of interest to those who like fattening
deserts and wine is the ":In September is our CHEESECAKE FESTIVAL with
local bakers competing for glory and our winery visitors faced with the grim
task of judging the best cheesecake, someone has to do it, why not you?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The winery is located at<b><br />
</b><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">111 East Marion Street</st1:address></st1:street>
- State Route 18,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Converse</st1:city> , <st1:state w:st="on">IN</st1:state><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">While you are in Converse Indiana have a look see at the
Carnegie library it has not been modified much since it opened in 1918. While
there are many Carnegie Libraries in small <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state> communities few are in such mint
condition. The library is located at <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">108
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;">John Parsons of a
family of good repute in old Virginia went to visit family in then still
pioneer Indiana John Parson's undertook a journey across Indiana in the 1840's
giving the reader at least a glimpse into the Hoosier states 'genteel"
class in many of the early settlements of the state. Mr. Parson often made note
of the "pioneer class", but his diary centrally concerned the small
middle class and even smaller upper class of professional men and old families
of note from the east that settled the state. These men and women were
concerned about bringing solid mainstream Protestantism to the a state that was
mostly lower class southern in culture and inclined to prefer local isolation
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The lower classes of rough and persevering southern
transplants were inclined to an evangelical disorganized religion and the
social hazard of the consumption of too much grain alcohol. They as a group
were not inclined to want to establish free schools or other internal
improvements on a public level because of their distrust of organized
government. For many years the isolation of many of these 'pioneer
communities" had left the average Hoosier who farmed or traded furs were left to their own devices. Those
professional men and younger son's of the wealthy from the east came to <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state> in a time of
transition when the state was struggling with its citizens to pay taxes to
establish communities that would in a least someway reflect the refinements of
the older east.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The mainline protestant churches worked many times in
great frustration with the locals in many communities to get them to adopt
temperance and be willing to support local education. In some counties in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state> the rate of
literate people was below fifty percent. Presbyterians played a very important
role in establishing schools in both <st1:city w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:city>
and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lafayette</st1:place></st1:city>
in a general public environment that did not value them. The Presbyterian
Church is also the oldest establish church in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Logansport</st1:place></st1:city> and along with the Roman Catholics
did much to further education in a community that may have remained
disinterested if left to their own devices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Mr. Parsons arrived in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lafayette</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state></st1:place>
in early July 1840. One of his great pleasures that reminded him of his home of
Virginal was him finding an Episcopal Church. It was the Episcopal Church of
St. John's. He had lamented the fact that there were few Episcopal churches
established in what he called the ,"Western Country". Mr. Parson's
wrote of the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;">Reverend</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;"> S.R. Johnson who gave the lot on which his parish was built and did not accept a salary for many years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Of the church Mr. Parson's wrote, " A most handsome structure of frame , erected at a cost of $3,500. In the high , the reading desk , the communion table, all painted white , and the square topped pews with doors, I found a stuffiest suggestion of home barring the antiquity of our buildings of worship , to put me at ease." By the end of the 19th century many prosperous protestant and Catholic churches would replace there modest frame churches with Gothic revival structures that would rival churches in the east. These new churches reflected the coming of the Victorian middle class in to even smaller communities and were proof that <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state> had become a "civilized"
and prosperous Midwestern state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Source:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>A
Tour Through <st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state> 1840: The Diary of John
Parsons of <st1:city w:st="on">Petersburg</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Virginia</st1:state>
;</u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>editor Kate Milner Rabb,
Robert M. McBride & Company, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New
York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>; June
1920.(pages:193-214).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591214540651769014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772371137113533652.post-22759985615283227282014-08-09T08:09:00.004-07:002014-08-09T08:11:13.102-07:00The Hoosier Poet To American Children: James Whitcomb Riley<div id="header_wrap">
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Back when Indiana had primitive forest surrounding new farmlands, James Whitcomb Riley was born. He came into the world as the second son and third child of Ruben and Elizabeth Riley. James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849 in near the tiny village of Greenfield Indiana.<br />
Ruben Riley was a well-educated man would served in the Civil War. He was also a lawyer and politician. Ruben Riley was in great demand locally for his political speeches. James Whitcomb Riley’s mother, was equally as talented. Elizabeth Riley was known as a local poet, and was sought after for her whimsical tales.Her best audience were the children of the village who loved her dramatic renderings of fairy tales and folklore..<br />
Despite his parents education, James did not have a privileged upbringing. His childhood home was a log cabin not unlike the others on the Hoosier frontier. His family had great appreciation for the newfound state. The main Street of Greenfield Village was was plotted to be part of the national Road. James Whitcomb Riley was actually named after an Indiana Gov. James Whitcomb</div>
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James Whitcomb Riley’s childhood was a simple one. He was known locally as a shy slender boy who loved practical jokes.James saw his parents influence increase as the community the little log cabin in which James Whitcomb Riley was born was eventually replaced by a two-story house.The house stood out having bright green shutters. He’s been his young days swimming, fishing , and playing Indians in the woods. Sometimes James and his friends would steal watermelons from neighbors gardens. James Whitcomb Riley had an idyllic boyhood, that would influence much of his writings. However, James was a poor student who often day dreamed in class and put forth little effort to memorize lessons.<br />
His parents were desperately afraid that he. James Whitcomb Riley would not amount anything. He appeared to have little aptitude for history or mathematics. James Whitcomb Riley used to used to tell a joke about his lack of understanding of most things in school. He remembers a teacher asking once where Christopher Columbus sailed on the second his voyage? James after thinking about the question for a while replied,” I don’t know where he went on his first journey”.<br />
Frustrated with his lack of ability to be successful in school James Whitcomb Riley left school at 16. He sought some and adventure with his newfound adulthood, so he and a group of friends formed a painting company. The boys traveled the state painting houses and signs. The group of teenage boys, called their new painting enterprise "the graphic company" .</div>
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Riley soon grew bored painting houses and tried his hand at poetry. He joined the traveling medicine show reciting his poetry for a meager wage. When James Whitcomb Riley returned home his father helped him get a job as editor of a local paper.<br />
Riley was convinced that people only read poetry if was the work of an already published poet.. So to prove his point he wrote a poem in the style of Edgar Allen Poe. The crafty Riley credited it to Poe. When imposter poetry was published in the paper it turned out to be widely read so It was a very widely read poem so James took credit for it. When the paper had published the supposed Poe poem they were excited that James had managed to get it from Poe for publication. When when Riley publically took credit for the poem and the prank, the whole affair ended up costing him his job as newspaper editor.<br />
Riley was an unsettled young man. He had tried to even study law once to follow in his fathers footstep ,but he was distracted by a romance with a local girl named Nellie Millikan. But eventually Riley found his calling at least temporarily and tried his hand at big city journalist,. He took a job with the Indianapolis Journal, which he kept from 1878 til his published his first book of poetry in 1883.</div>
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Riley’s best poems were about growing up on the Hoosier frontier. His characters like the “Raggedy man ’ and ‘orphant Annie’ became beloved by Hoosier children . When Riley performed his poems publically he did so with great drama ultitilzing the accents that were common in his boyhood home.<br />
\The frontier in Indiana drew immigrants from all parts of the country and world so there were great diversity and unique Hoosier accents in the community James Whitcomb Riley was from. His own parents spoke a version of Hoosier Deutsch which Riley would imitate when he recited , “Dot Little boy of Mine.”<br />
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James Whitcomb Riley career as a poet took off after his first book was published. He took his dialect filled poetry readings on the road with the likes of Mark Twain and Bill Nye. He was treated like a Victorian rockstar, in every town he performed in . The crowd could not get enough of James Whitcomb Rileys poems about growing up in the Hoosier heartland..<br />
Riley was not only having success with his poetry readings. His poems were also published in well illustrated books that gave James Whitcomb Riley an international audience. The royalties he received from these books made Mr. Riley the best paid living poet of his time. He was known as the “Hoosier Poet” and America’s children’s poet.</div>
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James Whitcomb Riley unfortunately had a stroke in his early fifties after returning from a friend’s funeral in Greenfield. This stroke would leave him confined to a home in Lockerbie Square in Indiana for the last 23 years of his life.His friends the Nickum and Holstein families invited him to be a permanent house guest at a gracious home at 528 Lockerbie street. There the now aging Riley , could be seen walking with his cane entertaining the neighborhood children with stories. He died from a fatal stroke on July 22, 1916.<br />
President Woodrow Wilson sent a note of sympathy to the surviving friends and relatives of Riley. He stated. “With his departure a notable figure passes out of the nation’s life; a man who imparted joyful pleasure and a thoughtful view of many things that other men would have missed.”</div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-size: 11pt;">The Historic
Graves of <st1:city w:st="on">Olde Town</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state>
Near <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Logansport</st1:city></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The battle of OldeTown took place near the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_people" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Miami people">Miami Indian</a> War Dance ring close to <st1:city w:st="on">Logansport</st1:city>
, <st1:state w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state> The site of the <st1:placename w:st="on">Olde</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Town</st1:placetype> village was also known as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Kenapeco-maqua</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Town</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Here on the
afternoon of August 8th 1791, men of the then Virginia Volunteers Mounted
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.5,-85.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=37.5,-85.0%20(Kentucky)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a> District attacked the Indian village charging across the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Eel</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>. The Virginia Volunteers numbered 525. We have no specific number of the amount of warriors in the village at the time of the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">By the evening of August 8th nine Indians (including two
women) and two of the Virginia Volunteers were killed. Three Miami Indians were
taken prisoner and later released. The soldiers killed were residents of the <st1:state w:st="on">Kentucky</st1:state> which at the time was still part of the state of
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Virginia</st1:place></st1:state>. One
of the known soldiers was John Bartlett who lived at Great Crossing in Scott
County Kentucky. The other unknown soldier is said to most likely be from this
area as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The surviving Virginia Volunteers after having destroyed the Indian village planned to leave the area the next day. They buried their dead comrades and placed bonfires on the graves to conceal their location .The fear was that when the Miami Indians returned to bury their dead, that the warriors would desecrate the graves of the Virginia Volunteers killed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Many years later two of the <st1:state w:st="on">Virginia</st1:state>
volunteers returned to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Olde</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Town</st1:placetype></st1:place> site. They to
pointed out to pioneer jurist Judge James Rush the exact location of the graves
of the two soldiers killed in the battle at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Olde</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Town</st1:placetype></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The story of the burial sites was faithfully passed down
to various residents and relatives of Judge James Rush in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7844444444,-86.2669444444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7844444444,-86.2669444444%20(Adamsboro%2C%20Indiana)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Adamsboro, Indiana">Adamsboro</a>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Cass</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Adamsboro is where Judge James Rush died in 1841. The site of the graves eventually came to attention of Miss Laura D. Henderson, State Historian of the Daughters of the American Revolution.She enlisted the help of many local patriotic organizations to get the graves officially marked. These organizations petitioned the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United States Department of War">War Department</a> and Logansport <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.legion.org/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="American Legion">American Legion</a> Post to mark the grave sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">On the 148th anniversary of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kenapacomaqua" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Battle of Kenapacomaqua">Battle of Olde Towne</a> two
marble stones were used to mark the graves of the soldiers that had lain there
almost 150 years with their graves unmarked. The inscription on the graves is
as follows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">John Bartlett August 8, 1791 Killed in action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Unknown Soldier August 8, 1791<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">John Bartlett was also a veteran of the American
Revolution having served as a Sergeant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Nearly 500 local residents attended the outside memorial
service to set these headstones on August 13th 1939. An exhibit to remember the
history of this location was held at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Methodist</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype></st1:place>
in Hoover.There are also at least two known Miami Indian burial sites at this
location . Over the years and many artifacts of both former European and Miami
Indian residents have been found at this site.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Source<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kenapacomaqua"><span style="color: #0062a6; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kenapacomaqua</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<a href="http://casscountyin.tripod.com/history.htm"><span style="color: #0062a6; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://casscountyin.tripod.com/history.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Cass County, Indiana, highlighting Logansport in red. It was created with a custom script with US Census Bureau data and modified with Inkscape. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cass_County_Indiana_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Logansport_Highlighted.svg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;">Young America is a small village in </span><st1:placename style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;" w:st="on">Deer</st1:placename><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;"> </span><st1:placetype style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;" w:st="on">Creek</st1:placetype><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;"> </span><st1:placetype style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;" w:st="on">Township</st1:placetype><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;"> in </span><st1:place style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;" w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Cass</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;"> near the Howard</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;"> county border. It is just about 10 miles south of </span><st1:place style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Logansport</st1:city></st1:place><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;"> . Young America
is a very good example of many of the almost ghost towns in rural </span><st1:state style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;">.</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Young America was founded in 1855 when Thomas Henry cleared the dense forest to build a saw mill. Thomas Henry used log wagons and with neighbor's ox team he hauled an engine and boiler over the muddy winding roads to to the recently cleared land. Thomas Henry then became proprietor of the first steam saw mill in Deer Creek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Now
there are two versions how Young America got its name. One story is that some
of the equipment hauled to the mill was made by a company called "Young
America", Mr.. Henry was asked what he was going to call his mill he
looked down at the label and said, "Young America " having no other
name in mind. The other version of this story is that the steam engine was such
a novel thing to see in what was the middle of no where that someone wrote in
chalk "Young America" on the boiler as a joke and the name stuck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The
town was plated in 1863 by Laban Thomas and several other additions were
platted up until the 1890's. The first real house was built on <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Main Street</st1:address></st1:street> in by one James Ginn about 1863. These were followed by a number of small houses .The biggest house being one built by a J.H Whiteside in 1868. Soon Young America was a sort of thriving place and in 1870 Hiram Pickett built a substantial brick hotel. These were followed by two commercial brick buildings built on opposite corners of <st1:place w:st="on">Main</st1:place> and Roush streets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Like
most rural <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indiana</st1:place></st1:state>
towns at the time Young America was a pretty self contained place. There were
two general stores run by Addis Wirick and David Staley, a harness shop, and a
drug store . Following a small increase in the population the town got its
first post office. Soon there was a second hotel, hardware store, flour mill
and restaurant. The town also boasted two barber shops and three local
physicians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">In 1957 Joe Young wrote an article on how Young Americ</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12pt;"> had just decided to overlook its centennial celebration. The population of Young America was just 300 people but it was still very much a thriving place. The town had never grown large enough to have good mail delivery. The article stated," Mail was first brought to Young America three times a week by "hack" a type of horse drawn buggy." When the post office was finally established the post master had to go to Poplar Grove to pick it up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The article states that the town never grew much past the population of three hundred because the railroad and interurban never reached there. Still in 1957 the town had its own school system serving grades 1-12.They also had a very active Lions club that had brought the town it's own fire truck and three well attended churches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">Other
businesses in town included two food stores, two restaurants, three filling
stations and two garages. Just as Young America had started as a mill, the
largest source of commerce was a feed mill in 1957.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">The
high school served 110 students from local farms and towns. It was a sleepy
place then as it took almost a hundred years for the population to peak at 300
at the time of the 2000 census Young America had a population of 115.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">There are no commercial businesses showing a Young America address but there is still a grain elevator in the town. Young America like so many small places that people lived their lives and raised their children is fading going the way of the passenger trains and close knit communities. It lived up to its name providing the kind of place that Americans lived and worked when <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> was
still truly young.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;"><a href="http://casscountyin.tripod.com/towns.htm"><span style="color: #0062a6; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://casscountyin.tripod.com/towns.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.5pt;">http://incass-inmiami.org/cass/news/yamerica.html<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">What does the view from the corn mean? It means that I aim to write about Indiana. All of it the good , the bad, and the corny of course. Indiana is part of the overlooked upper Midwest. Indiana’s history is a microcosm of life across the upper Midwest. Hoosier’s are a fascinating bunch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">We have are more colorfully southern then those snotty Buckeye’s to the east. Hoosiers have hospitality down compared to those folks who live in Chicago and that state that surrounds the Windy city. Well I do not have to tell you how we differ from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Kentuckians</span> we are moderately quirky Southern, we don’t take pride in wearing raccoon or any sort of vermin on our heads. We make our ‘shine’ in the bath tub not in the woods somewhere .</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">The Hoosier State passing through Shelby, Indiana on June 24, 2011. Note the Chase St. signal box on the CSX line. The mixed consist--a Superliner, baggage car and Horizon Fleet coaches--is typical for the Hoosier State which serves as Amtrak's "hospital train," ferrying equipment to and from the shops at Beech Grove, Indiana. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Amtrak%27s_friday_Hoosier_State.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">The Hoosier state outshines Kentucky because we were the first US. wine country. We are much more defined then of Kentucky neighbors. Neighbors really? I was always told that someday those bourbon swilling raccoon hat wearing bunch would someday invade the fine Hoosier state across the Ohio River!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">It is like my fear that someday the snobs from Noblesville will come over in their state of the art inboard ( la te dah) pontoons and over take poor aluminium outboard boating Ciceroians ou have to have lived in Hamilton county to understand . It just never departs. I think my father told me these stories because his bourbon swilling sister lived in Kentucky and he was afraid she would come <span style="color: black;">and</span> visit.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">English: Potter's Bridge, a historical covered bridge in Noblesville, Indiana. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Potters_Bridge.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Oh the folks from Michigan are a different breed. Sort of like Hoosier from the region, what is that accent about? We all of your ancestors<span class="Apple-converted-space"> sing songy </span><span style="color: black;">Swedes</span>? Yes , ‘normal’ Hoosiers have a drawl. It is not like we are talking with balled up socks in our mouths but , more like just with that one sock that disappears out of every wash load.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Ah, the sun has gone down on the snowy cornfields of Madison county Indiana. The deer are in field situation rooms planning their crisis management strategies to survive now open hunting season. The line at the Anderson Walmart has dwindled to a few brave holiday shoppers , who have to gone to purchase the new Duck Dynasty Chia Pet, in the bitter cold. All is well in calm in the corn.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hamilton_County_Indiana_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Noblesville_Highlighted.svg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="This map shows the incorporated and unincorpor..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted" height="321" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Hamilton_County_Indiana_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Noblesville_Highlighted.svg/350px-Hamilton_County_Indiana_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Noblesville_Highlighted.svg.png" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="350" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Hamilton County, Indiana, highlighting Noblesville in red. It was created with a custom script with US Census Bureau data and modified with Inkscape. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hamilton_County_Indiana_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Noblesville_Highlighted.svg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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