Indiana: Indiana State Historical Bureau Markers
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMKZB_ball-brothers-glass-manufacturing-company_Muncie-IN.html
Side - A Company incorporated in New York 1886 to manufacture glassware (particularly fruit jars). Brothers Edmund, Frank, George, William, and Lucius Ball all were trustees. Company - promised money, land, and free natural gas - came to Muncie; first glass…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMKZC_shaffer-chapel-african-methodist-episcopal-church_Muncie-IN.html
Structure, circa 1893, is Muncie's oldest standing public school building. Purchased by church congregation, circa 1928. Rallying point in August 1930 when bodies of two African-American men, lynched in Marion, were brought to Muncie for embalmment by churc…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HML1A_nappanee-cartoonists_Nappanee-IN.html
(Side one):Merrill Blosser was first Nappanee artist to gain national recognition as a professional cartoonist. Freckles and His Friends, his most popular cartoon, ran from 1915 to 1973, syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1965, National Cart…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMLUI_goshens-carnegie-library_Goshen-IN.html
Side AIndiana's first Carnegie library opened here 1903 with 3, 000 volumes. Goshen Library Association received $25, 000 in Carnegie grants 1901. Public donations, land purchase, and tax levy met Carnegie grant conditions. Architects Patton & Miller, Chica…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMLUM_e-hill-turnock_Elkhart-IN.html
(Side one):Added many buildings to the architectural significance of Elkhart, Goshen, and Nappanee. Born mid-1850s in England; his family moved to Elkhart early 1870s. In mid-1880s he moved to Chicago; worked until 1890 with architect William Le Baron Jenne…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMLUS_charles-gordone_Elkhart-IN.html
Born in Ohio, 1925, Gordone grew up in Elkhart and graduated from Elkhart High School in 1944. In the 1950s, he moved to New York City where he worked as an actor, director, and playwright. During the 1960s, he acted in the award-winning off-Broadway play, …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMMV9_highland-park_Lafayette-IN.html
Neighborhood in late-Victorian "landscape garden suburb" style, designed by Cincinnati firm, Earnshaw and Punshon. Platted 1891, 1893. Houses are of a wide variety of architectural styles. Important for this suburban development was 1892 spur on existing 18…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMNA4_cairo-skywatch-tower_West-Lafayette-IN.html
U.S. Air Force commissioned observation tower August 16, 1952 for Operation Skywatch, part of Civilian Ground Observation Corps during Korean War. Constructed by community volunteers. Approximately ninety people alternated shifts to maintain twenty-four-hou…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMNCO_tecumseh-trail_West-Lafayette-IN.html
Used by Indian tribes and often traveled by Chief Tecumseh prior to defeat of his warriors by Gen. William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe on November 7, 1811.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMNMT_michigan-road_Rochester-IN.html
Extending from Michigan City to the Ohio River at Madison. Begun by the state in 1832 with funds obtained from sale of land granted by the Potawatomi Indians. Opened northern part of state to settlers.