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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/HMTK_three-white-men-were-hung-here_Pendleton-IN.html
Three white men were hung here in 1825 for killing Indians.
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/HM40_wendell-l-willkie_Elwood-IN.html
Republican Presidential candidate delivered his acceptance speech at Callaway Park, August 17, 1940. Wilkie's Democrat opponent, Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the 1940 election and later appointed Wilkie to Britain as a liaison during World War II…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3Z_wendell-willkie_Elwood-IN.html
Here in Callaway Park August 17, 1940, Willkie accepted Republican party presidential nomination after a nationwide grassroots campaign. An estimated crowd of 250,000 was in the park and along adjacent streets. Established campaign headquarters in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3Y_indianas-first-interurban_Alexandria-IN.html
Charles L. Henry's Union Traction Company, the first electric rail line specifically designed for interurban service, began operating through here on January 1, 1898. It ran from Alexandria to Anderson. Indiana became the traction center of the Un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3L_massacre-of-indians_Markleville-IN.html
In 1824, nine Indians were murdered by white men near this spot. The men were tried, Found guilty and hanged. It was the first execution of white men for killing Indians.
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