Posts tagged history
June 8, 2017
Schroeder Saddletree Factory Museum
In the 1860s, Madison, Indiana, was the leading producer of saddletrees with over a dozen saddletree companies, including the Schroeder Saddletree Factory.
June 8, 2017
Women’s Improvement Club
As Tuberculosis raged across Indianapolis, a group of African American women joined together to demand better healthcare and education for their community.
May 25, 2017
Veterans Memorial Museum
After becoming interested in military history as a child, Brian Mundell began collecting military memorabilia, creating Terre Haute's only memorial museum.
May 25, 2017
LST 325 Memorial
During WWII, the Evansville LST was critical to beachfront invasions, including the infamous D-Day; today, it is the only seaworthy LST 325 left in the country!
March 23, 2017
The Garret Antiques
For over 40 years, the Garrett family has run The Garret Antiques shop out of Bloomington's iconic 'Batman House,' an ornate limestone mansion built in 1895.
March 23, 2017
Elkinsville: The Town That Once Was
In 1964, Elkinsville, a small town located in the Salt Creek Watershed near Bloomington, was forced to relocate in order to build the Lake Monroe Reservoir.
March 23, 2017
Indiana Limestone: A History
For almost two hundred years, Indiana limestone has shaped Southern Indiana industry and provided "America's building stone," iconic in US architecture.
January 26, 2017
The French Lick Big Top
The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus wintered at their owner's hometown of French Lick from 1913 to 1922; now, the circus lives on at the French Lick West Baden Museum.
December 8, 2016
Wabash Lights
On March 31, 1880, press flocked to Wabash, Indiana as its lighting display flickered alive, making the town the first electrically lighted city in the world.
December 8, 2016
Voyage to Vincennes
Established by French fur traders as a strategic post, Vincennes was Indiana's first European settlement, and eventual capital of the Northwest Territory.
