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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SVR_shipshewana-historical_Shipshewana-IN.html
Abraham Summey
1827 - 1900
Summey Town
Hezekiah Davis
1825 - 1891
Davis Town
Hezekiah Davis came to this area with his family in 1836. He was 10 years old. He grew up an ambitious and hardworking young man. Through his industry and fores…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SRN_indiana-state-house_Indianapolis-IN.html
When Alexander Ralston and Elias Fordham laid out the original Mile Square Plan for Indianapolis, they set aside Square 53 for a "State House" two blocks west of what is now Monument Circle. In 1835 a first state house was completed on the site, m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SRM_civil-war-training-camp_Indianapolis-IN.html
Military Park began its existence in the 1820s as a "Military Reservation" where the state militia occasionally trained. In 1852 the first Indiana State Fair was held on the grounds, and other state fairs occurred there over the next eig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SOM_the-lincoln-funeral-train_Indianapolis-IN.html
Side AAssassinated President Abraham Lincoln's funeral was April 19, 1865 at the White House. The funeral train left for Springfield, Illinois April 21 directed by the military; stops en route allowed mourners to pay homage. In Richmond, Indiana, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SO8_site-of-the-central-canal_Indianapolis-IN.html
Authorized by Indiana's 1836 Internal Improvement Act, Central Canal conceived as link in transportation system connecting Wabash and Erie Canal with Ohio River. State's bankruptcy in 1839 prevented completion of Central Canal. Canal has since pro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SO7_indiana-avenue_Indianapolis-IN.html
African Americans, by the 1890s, had established a vibrant social, commercial, and economic community along Indiana Avenue. Black entertainers, entrepreneurs, politicians, and working people developed the Avenue into a thriving, widely-known neigh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SO6_indianapolis-times_Indianapolis-IN.html
Side One The Indianapolis Times (originally published as the Sun in 1888) moved to this site in 1924. In the 1920s, it led a crusade against the Ku Klux Klan, exposing the Klan's influence in Indiana politics and spurring investigations into corru…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SO5_romanian-orthodox-church_Indianapolis-IN.html
Here, at 635 W. Market Street, original Saints Constantine and Elena Romanian Orthodox Church was dedicated in 1911; incorporated in 1916. Church has served Romanian community spiritually, culturally, and socially. Congregation built current churc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SO4_bethel-african-methodist-episcopal-church_Indianapolis-IN.html
Side One A.M.E. Church traces its origins to founding of Free African Society in Philadelphia, 1787. Circa 1836, Augustus Turner, a barber, and other black settlers organized this Indianapolis congregation to worship freely and support their commu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RVJ_james-brown-ray_Brookville-IN.html
Governor of Indiana, 1825 ~ 1831. Erected this house circa 1821 ~ 1822. Palladian window and transom fan~light considered "too aristocratic" by early Hoosiers.