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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K3T_the-bronnenberg-family_Anderson-IN.html
The Bronnenbergs represent true pioneer spirit and a preservationist ethic. Frederick Brandenburg was born in 1775 in Germany. As a youth he apprenticed as a tanner. Brandenburg immigrated to America as a young man, changing his name to Bronne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1678_the-bronnenberg-house-and-family_Anderson-IN.html
The Bronnenberg House German immigrant Frederick Bronnenberg arrived in this area with his wife, Barbara, and several children in 1821. While traveling to Illinois, one of the oxen in their team gave out nearby. The Bronnenbergs decided to make…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU5E_madison-county-veterans-memorial_Anderson-IN.html
( Panel - - W. W. I - "A - Z" ) In memory of Madison County Veterans who paid the Supreme Sacrifice in W. W. I ( Row One ) Carl Abel · Sim Anderson · Henry Auler · Clarence Austin · Forrest Baker · Benja…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR9T_the-anderson-street-railway_Anderson-IN.html
At this site Anderson's original street railway line extended northward to the PanHandle Railroad depot located at Main and Fifth Streets. Two mule-drawn street cars, each seating twenty persons; first operated over the 3-mile route on the evening…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVC_madison-county-historic-home_Anderson-IN.html
The home is located on Lot 3 of the original plat presented by President Monroe in 1823 as Andersontown by William Conner, son-in-law of Chief Kikthawenund (Chief Anderson). Here Captain John Berry built a log cabin. In 1865 Alfred Makepeace erect…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV1_public-square_Anderson-IN.html
This Public Square was part of Chief Anderson's Delaware Indian Village. In 1827, thirty acres were donated to Madison County by John and Salley Berry to relocate the county seat from Pendleton to Anderson. The remaining acreage was sold by the Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUR_the-first-methodist-church-in-anderson-was-built-here_Anderson-IN.html
—1827-1977— The pioneer Methodist Church of Anderson began meeting in homes in 1821 and was organized as a congregation in 1827. Their first primitive log church was on the southwest corner of 11th and Delaware Streets. In 1849 a new c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Z_the-great-mound_Anderson-IN.html
The outer embankment of this earthwork was constructed about 160 B.C. by the Adena people. Later, the Hopewell people added a small mound containing four human skeletons, cremations, bone awls, pottery shards, projectile points and a platform pipe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3G_historic-west-eighth-street_Anderson-IN.html
This shaded boulevard, once named Anderson Street, remains a legacy of this city's Gas Boom Era. Bound by German St. (now 7th) on the North and Washington St (now 9th) Southward, the homes of this District attest to the people and events that have…
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