Black and White Photograph. Governor Jackson read the deed for the first purchase of 106 acres for Indiana Dunes State Park while John O. Bowers examined the check for $32,034.00. This photograph is part of the album "First Purchase of the Dunes."
Black and White Photograph. Governor Jackson presented John O. Bowers a check for $32,034.00 in payment for the first purchase of 106 acres of duneland for Indiana Dunes State Park. This photograph is part of the album "First Purchase of the...
Melissa Turpin presents a $365.00 check to Band Booster president, Linda Kallock. The donation was in behalf of Kappa Delta Phi. Original is 5.25 x 3.5".
Debbie Carlton, of Brownsburg, Indiana, won a two minute shopping spree on May 31, 1984, netting $279.18 worth of groceries from the Brownsburg Galyan's Family Market. Her name had been selected in a drawing. Her winning strategy was to concentrate...
Document filed with the Clerk of Court in Hendricks County, for the establishment of the Free Public Library and Reading Room of Brownsburg, Lincoln Township, Hendricks County, Indiana
Lingeman and Adams Company bid to remove the buildings from the site of the current Carnegie Library in Brownsburg, Indiana. They were to pay a sum of $375 for all of the buildings.
A public subscription library was established in Anderson by 1879, but it led a nomadic existence for many years. It found a home on the second floor of the Masonic Temple Building on Meridian Street in the 1890's. After the city voted to support...
Young Men's Christian associations; Anderson, Ind.
Local businessman John Brunt donate $125,000 toward building a YMCA in Anderson in 1915. This facility has been in continuous use ever since. An annex was added in 1972.
This building, completed in January 1878 at a cost of $7200, housed the inmates of the Madison County infirmary (or poor house.) The third of Madison County's three poorhouses, it was built on ground purchase from the Berryman Shafer family. A...
St. John's North Wing, built in 1943. General Motors gave $150,00 toward its construction. In the 1940's and 50's, the words Hickey Memorial were part of the hospital name.
Elwood's City Building was constructed in 1899 at a cost of $35,000. It was based on a model of the Chicago Town Hall. It was replaced in 2003 with a new Municipal Building. In 2005, the Robert Palmer Institute of Biomechanics was announced as...
The Anderson High School Manual Arts and Domestic Sciences Building was built in 1910 at a cost of $150,000. It stood on Lincoln Street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets. Picture is taken looking southwest from 13th and Lincoln. It was...
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Vietnam Vets Purchase Airport; Town Receives $50,000 Grant; Main Street Elects; Council Elects Officers; Men Implored to Throw Away Their Razors
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Greentown Receives $490,000 for Waste Water Improvement Project; Town Experiences Quadrennial Election; Brunk Ditch Cleanup team Conducts 3rd Project
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: New Town Fountain to Be Dedicated; $2.1 Billion, 10-Year Highway Funding Gap Revealed; Guidelines for Outdoor Warning Sirens
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Elden Jarvis Instantly Killed, and Charles Durham Hurt When Ford Turned Over Friday Night; The Funeral of "Billy" Mann; U.B. Dedication Is Next Sunday, Cost of New Church Is...
