Moment of Indiana History
Faced with limited local and regional markets for their grain and livestock, enterprising Indiana farmers shipped their products by flatboat to New Orleans.
Indiana's ill-fated second statehouse was acclaimed as “’the nearest approach to the classical spirit of the antique yet instanced in the Western hemisphere’”.
Indiana’s “bone dry” law outlawed the possession of all liquor—even for medicinal purposes. And even in the hands of the state's best known temperance crusader.
French Lick is known for its Pluto Water and Martinsville once boasted numerous artesian water spas; less remembered is Warren County's “Mudlavia” resort.
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