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Trains ceased to serve Warsaw by 1971 when Amtrak assumed most passenger operations in the United States. On October 27, 1985, Amtrak added the station as a stop on their Broadway Limited and Capitol Limited lines. [5] Services ended after November 11, 1990, when trains were rerouted further north.
WRSW-FM, Classic Hits 107.3 is the 50,000-watt heritage station of the Warsaw community for over 70 years "Willie 103.5" WAWC is Warsaw's Fun Country Station began broadcasting in Warsaw in November 2006; News Now Warsaw 1480 AM and 99.7 FM (WRSW-AM provides National and Local News and Information around the clock
The town of Broad Ripple, which had itself absorbed neighboring Wellington in 1884, was annexed into the city of Indianapolis in 1922. [9] By the end of the 1950s, the city had appointed an annexation director and completed several major annexations adding 28,000 residents. Woodruff Place was annexed in 1962. [3]
In the early 1920s, the Lincoln Highway was moved south between Valparaiso and Fort Wayne, to what is now known mostly as Old US 30, passing through Plymouth and Warsaw. [13] A section of US 30 in Dyer known as the "ideal section" of the Lincoln Highway was opened in 1923 and rebuilt in the 1990s.
Warsaw was named after the capital of Poland, the homeland of the county's namesake, Thaddeus Kosciusko. Beginning in 1834, settlers arrived, a blacksmith shop and several dwellings were built. A year after being platted it was chosen as the county seat. In 1854 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway came to town and growth began. [2]
The liquidation of the insurgent hospitals in Warsaw's Old Town was the massacre of wounded Warsaw insurgents taken prisoner in the Old Town by the units of Heinz Reinefarth and Oskar Dirlewanger. The massacre took place on 2 September 1944, and its victims included nearly 1,000 wounded prisoners and several thousand civilians (altogether up to ...
Indianapolis elected seven new faces to the 25-member City-County Council on Nov. 7, one Republican and six Democrats, who will be sworn in Jan. 1.
The monument is dedicated to Jan Zachwatowicz, a 20th-century architect and conservator-restorer who led the effort of reconstruction of Warsaw following its destruction in the Second World War. It was designed by Karol Badyna and unveiled on 4 March 2021.