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Marker at the site of John McCormick's cabin. Indianapolis was founded as the site for the new state capital in 1820 by an act of the Indiana General Assembly; however, the area where the city of Indianapolis now stands was once home to the Lenape (Delaware Nation), a native tribe who lived along the White River. [1]
Class enrollment at Northwest would increase over the years and at the end of the 70's the graduating class comprised 400 seniors. [2] The freshman class in 1963 would be the first class to complete all 4 years of high school at Northwest graduating in June 1967. It should be mentioned that in September, 1963 there was an 8th Grade class at ...
The Indiana Historical Society (IHS) is one of the United States' oldest and largest historical societies.It describes itself as "Indiana's Storyteller". It is housed in the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center at 450 West Ohio Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, in The Canal and White River State Park Cultural District, neighboring the Indiana State Museum and the Eiteljorg Museum of ...
Corey Floyd, president of the Indianapolis Back Firefighters Association, shows off the beginnings of a visual history display that will highlight how Black firefighters helped shape the city's ...
A 1993 inventory of the library's holdings included 60,000 books and pamphlets, 3,500 collected manuscripts, 1.5 million images, and 1,000 maps. Some of this included not only the history of Indiana, but that of the Old Northwest as well. [8] It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995.
Northwest Indiana, nicknamed The Region after the Calumet Region, [1] is an unofficial region of northern Indiana, United States that is located at the northwestern corner of the state.
Andrew Thomas House, in Carroll County First Christian Church, designed by Eliel Saarinen, in Bartholomew County Jeffries Ford Covered Bridge, destroyed by fire in 2002 but still NRHP-listed, in Parke County State Bank of Indiana, Branch of (Memorial Hall), in Vigo County USS LST 325 (tank landing ship), Vanderburgh County St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, designed by Edward D. Dart, in Lake ...
In 2016 the congregation sold their deteriorating church, which was repurposed into part of a new hotel. The congregation built a new worship center at 6417 Zionsville Road in Pike Township in northwest Indianapolis. The Bethel AME congregation has a long history of supporting the city's African American community.