Indiana lawmakers in the 1850s were accused of having “practically legalized Free Love and its endless and nameless abominations" through liberal divorce laws.
New Harmony was not the only community in the state to be inspired by the utopian visions of 19th-century social reformer Robert Owen.
Urban planner George Kessler raved about the Circle City's diagonal thoroughfares and plentiful waterways, but bemoaned its hands-off attitude toward growth.
When a DeKalb County farmhand hurried to Kendallville on election day in 1842, he cast a vote that may have that forever changed the fates of two nations