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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EPY_medora-shale-brick-plant_Medora-IN.html
(Side One)West Lee Wright laid out Medora 1853. Sample of local shale was made into brick "excellent for building and paving" 1904. Medora Shale Brick Company organized 1904. Construction began by 1910, one south of here along Baltimore & Ohio Sou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EPX_ferry-bridge_Gosport-IN.html
(Side One)Pennsylvania through truss iron bridge built 1903 by Lafayette Engineering Co.; crosses West Fork of White River, spans 316 feet, and rests on concrete and stone abutments. One of longest single-span iron bridges in Indiana; longest high…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EPV_indiana-oolitic-limestone-quarries_Oolitic-IN.html
Largest building stone quarries in the world, in continuous operation since the 1830s. These quarries have produced stone for many of the world's largest and finest memorials, buildings and bridges.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EPM_site-of-james-gregory-house_Bedford-IN.html
Here on March 11, 1818, Ambrose Carlton, Thomas Beagley and James Scotts, commissioners, organized Lawrence County and its first five townships, appointed officers, fixed Palestine as county seat and ordered first elections. The first court conven…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EPL_pine-hall_Bedford-IN.html
Built 1865-7 by Wm. Ragsdale. Cost $25,000. Occupied by his family 11 years. Bought 1878 by Nathan Hall, pioneer quarryman. Occupied by his family 21 years. Bought and run as a dairy farm 1899 by Alvin Tobe Hert who named the estate Pine Hall. Own…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EPK_otis-park_Bedford-IN.html
Presented to the City of Bedford October 31, 1935 by Fred B. Otis, editor of the Bedford Daily Mail. An area of 145.81 acres of beautiful landscape, including the fine old mansion, Pine Hall. Dedicated to refined recreation and pleasure of all the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EPJ_otis-park_Bedford-IN.html
A gift of newspaperman Fred B. Otis, May 13, 1937. The mansion was built circa 1865 by William A. Ragsdale. Pioneer stone worker, Nathan Hall purchased the property in 1875 and named it "Pine Hall." Later it was owned by industrialist Alvin T. Her…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EOZ_dunn-memorial-hospital_Bedford-IN.html
(Side One)Lawrence County Hospital Association was organized July 15, 1903 to build, maintain, and manage a hospital in Bedford. Opened first building 1904. State, district, and local Works Progress Administration officials and city and county off…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EOY_birthplace-of-edward-rector-attorney_Bedford-IN.html
Lawrence County's greatest philanthropist, he endowed the Rector Scholarship Foundation at De Pauw University with $2,250,000 in 1919. To date 5,100 awards have been made, 22 to Lawrence County natives.
"To youth of ability and courage in Ameri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EOS_freemans-corner_Orleans-IN.html
This point marks the junction of three important Indian land cessions.?????Treaty of Fort Wayne, 1803?????Treaty of Grouseland, 1805?????Treaty of Fort Wayne, 1809The corner was established by Surveyor Thomas Freeman in 1803.