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Pigeon Roost State Historic Site is located between Scottsburg and Henryville, Indiana, United States. A one-lane road off U.S. Route 31 takes the visitor to the site of a village where Native Americans massacred 24 settlers shortly after the War of 1812 began.
Michiana, a portmanteau of "Michigan" and "Indiana", is a loosely defined sub-region that spans southwestern Michigan and Northern Indiana's north-central counties.It is centered on the South Bend–Elkhart–Mishawaka Combined Statistical Area and generally corresponds with Area code 574.
The first Amish settlers arrived in 1840; most came directly from Switzerland, preserving their Bernese German dialect, not adopting the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect of the majority of the Amish. [14] [15] The Yankee settlers commissioned the first courthouse in 1839, a two-story frame building. The log-building jail was completed in 1837. [16]
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LaGrange County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana.As of 2020, the population was 40,446. [2] The county seat is LaGrange, Indiana. [3] The county is located in the Northern Indiana region known as Michiana and is about 55 miles (89 km) east of South Bend, 105 miles (169 km) west of Toledo, Ohio, and 175 miles (282 km) northeast of Indianapolis.
Chuck Reinhart caught last night's aurora and wrote: “The northern lights from my yard in Vincennes, Indiana. The camera’s sensor records colors the eye can’t see.” Thanks, Chuck!
In 1817, one year after Indiana became a U.S. state, an estimated 2,000 Potawatomi settled along the rivers and lakes north of the Wabash River and south of Lake Michigan. [3] Around then, the state and federal government became eager to open the northern parts of Indiana to settlement and development by European Americans. [4]
The Indiana Fiddlers' Gathering board of directors announced their planned festival for 2024 has been called off, postponing the event until 2025. Indiana Fiddlers' Gathering announces ...