Category: History
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Adding the Michigan Road to the modern Indiana highway system
The story of how the Michigan Road was added to the state highway system, bit by bit.
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Mysteries solved, puzzles revealed in the route of the Michigan Road through Indiana
Looking at maps of the original Michigan Road surveys reveals that the route of the Historic Michigan Road Byway isn’t quite right in a couple places. We’re choosing to be okay with that.
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The Klan in Indiana
Actor Adam Driver claims to have seen Klan rallies during his Indiana childhood. That’s shocking news to this lifelong Hoosier.
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The Shepard Bridge on the Michigan Road
You’ll find this 1913 stone-arch bridge in southwest Ripley County, Indiana, on the Michigan Road.
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The bridges that carried the National Road and US 40 over the White River in Indianapolis
The history of the bridges carrying the National Road (US 40) across the White River in Indianapolis.
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It’s about 1948, and you’re looking over the National Mall in Washington, DC
Among my mother-in-law’s Kodachromes are images of the National Mall from atop the Washington Monument — in about 1948. How the Mall has changed!
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Puzzle solved: The National Road at Pleasant Gardens and Reelsville in Indiana
Thanks to some excellent research by Richard Simpson, the puzzle of the old National Road alignments at Reelsville, IN, is solved!
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The story of Story, Indiana
A surprising amount is known about the little village of Story, today a tourist destination off Brown County, Indiana’s, beaten path. I tell the village’s history in thumbnail.
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single frame: City of Mineral Water
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The incredibly sticky sense of place
The land on which my home stands was farmland not 20 years ago. It’s typical: thanks to sprawl, many American neighborhoods occupy land that produced crops sometime within the last hundred years. In my town, a suburb of Indianapolis, neighboring subdivisions and shopping centers are brand new. I remember well the farmland that was there…
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A sense of place: Going home to Twelve Points
Thirty years ago I lived in Terre Haute’s Twelve Points neighborhood. In this post, which I first shared in 2013, I returned to Twelve Points to see how it had changed.