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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 ...
If it’s early September, it’s time for the Old Settlers celebration in downtown Olathe. The festival — featuring carnival rides, a parade, entertainment and even a gab fest — starts on ...
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]
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.
The county government is a constitutional body, and is granted specific powers by the Constitution of Indiana, and by the Indiana Code. County Council: The legislative branch of the county government; controls spending and revenue collection in the county. Representatives are elected to four-year terms from county districts.
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 ...
Kokomo, whose name is also sometimes given as Koh-Koh-Mah, Co-come-wah, Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo, or Kokomoko, was a Native American man of the Miami tribe who lived in northern Indiana at some point probably in the early nineteenth century. The city of Kokomo, Indiana is named after him. David Foster, the founder of the city of Kokomo, is widely quoted as ...
While northern Indiana had been covered by glaciers, southern Indiana remained unaltered by the ice's advance, leaving plants and animals that could sustain human communities. [1] [2] Indiana's earliest known inhabitants were Paleo-Indians. Evidence exists that humans were in Indiana as early as the Archaic stage (8000–6000 BC). [3]