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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IG4_boundary-hill_Metamora-IN.html
This is the point on the line
established by the Treaty of
Greenville, August 8, 1795,
between General Anthony Wayne
and the Indian tribes of the
Northwest Territory. This treaty
opened southern Ohio and eastern
Indiana to white settlement.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19IB_gordons-or-millville-lock-24_Metamora-IN.html
Gordon's, or Millville Lock #24, was one of the 56 locks on the Whitewater Canal constructed to accommodate a 491-foot drop in elevation along its course.
The water level could be raised or lowered eight feet. Mitered gates at both ends of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19IA_whitewater-canal-state-historic-site_Metamora-IN.html
The Whitewater Canal was one of several projects begun by the Indiana Improvement Act of 1836, which was designed to improve transportation and develop commerce state-wide. Constructed to link southeastern and central Indiana, the canal was comple…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14HM_whitewater-canal-state-historic-site_Metamora-IN.html
The Whitewater Canal was one of several projects begun by the Indiana Improvement Act of 1836, which was designed to improve transportation and develop commerce state-wide. Constructed to link southeastern and central Indiana, the canal was comple…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14HA_ben-franklin-iii_Metamora-IN.html
The Ben Franklin III, launched in 1989, was designed and constructed in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Designed as a freighter, the vessel is 75' long and has a beam (or width) of 12'. Constructed of wood and fiberglass, it holds approximately 75 passen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11LA_duck-creek-aqueduct_Metamora-IN.html
An aqueduct is a bridge carrying one body of water over another. The Duck Creek Aqueduct was originally built in 1843 to convey the canal over Duck Creek 16 feet below. Flood waters in 1847 destroyed the aqueduct, which was soon replaced by the pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU6K_jenks-and-martindale-grocery_Metamora-IN.html
Alfred Blacklidge was the original owner of this building. The original building burned in 1885. In the early 1900's. Blacklidge was extending credit to surrounding sharecroppers, when bad times came, forcing many of the farmers to default on thei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU6J_metamora-grist-mill_Metamora-IN.html
In 1845, Jonathan Banes built a three-story frame cotton mill, known as Metamora Cotton Factory, on this site. Banes, a former contractor on the canal, converted the cotton factory to a flouring mill in 1856, and sold the mill to John Curry in 185…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU6I_martindale-hotel_Metamora-IN.html
Built in 1838 by Ezekial Tyner to house his store room and counting room where he acted as agent for canal trade, housing his family in the addition to the rear. He then purchased the land from David Mount in 1841. Thomas Tague acquired the proper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU5L_van-camps-store_Metamora-IN.html
This building was built in the 1850's. Mr. Van Camp housed his drug store here, which had the front blown out by a gasoline explosion in 1851. His Mother and himself perished in this tragedy. The building on either side of this were all part of on…