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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]
1831 1831 map of Indianapolis in Marion County, originally drawn by surveyor B. F. Morris. Town officials appoint Indianapolis's first board of health when the town experiences its first case of smallpox. [58] The steamboat Robert Hanna arrives in town on April 11. After it departs from Indianapolis the boat runs aground along the White River ...
Flanner House Homes is a national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana. The district encompasses 180 contributing buildings in the Project Area "A" (Indianapolis Redevelopment Commission) of Indianapolis. It was developed between about 1950 and 1959, and includes single family and duplex dwellings for African-American families.
From the 1920s to the 1950s, Fountain Square was the city's main entertainment district, [11] with as many as seven theaters in operation at one point in time. [12] After the construction of the interstate through Indianapolis, a portion of Fountain Square was demolished, with the remaining neighborhood disconnected from the surrounding areas. [13]
Through the financial support of the Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission, formed by Mayor Bart Peterson in 2002, community stakeholders are planning the regeneration of the area. On March 28, 2007, the name of Indiana Avenue north of 10th Street and south of 16th Street was restored, after having been called Stadium Drive since 1932.
The Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau is a public library building, located in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is the largest public library in the state of Indiana, housing over 60,000 manuscripts. Established in 1934, the library has gathered a large collection of books on a vast variety of topics.
Emerson Avenue Addition Historic District, also known as Emerson Heights Addition and Charles M. Cross Trust Clifford Avenue Addition, is a national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana. It encompasses 1,000 contributing buildings and 9 contributing objects in a planned residential section of Indianapolis.
Through the early 1900s, a commuter rail/trolley system ran from Irvington to downtown Indianapolis along US 40. Irvington is the largest locally protected historic district in Indianapolis. The district includes roughly 2,800 buildings and about 1,600 parcels of land. Seventy-eight percent of Irvington homes were built before 1960. [4]