History; County government; Pioneers; Families; Farm life; Farming;
Mr. McCormick describes his work as an "An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with an Extended Survey of Modern Developments in the Reclamation of Lands and the Progress of Town and Country".
The "Carmania" was built at Newport News, Virginia in 1896 and was originally of Mexican registry called the "Tlacotalpan". After being sold to Mobile, Alabama she rammed a dock and killed some 50 people. She was then renamed "Margaret". She was...
"City of Jeffersonville"; Steamboats; Riverboats; Rivers; Ohio River; Ferryboat
The "City of Jeffersonville" was built at the Howard Steamboat Works in 1891 and was no longer working by 1914. In this picture she is docked on the Madison Levee.
According to Way's Packet Directory the "Homer Smith" was build by Howard's in 1914. The "Homer Smith" ran excursions on the lower Ohio in 1915 and briefly tried the Louisville and Cincinnati trade. It became a regular excursion boat at Pittsburg...
Steamboats; Riverboats; Excursion boats; "Belle of Louisville"; "Avalon"; Ferries; USO clubs; Rose Island
Built in 1914 this boat went by the name Idlewild from that date to 1947. She then became the Avalon from 1947 to 1962 when she was dubbed "Belle of Louisville". She is a shallow draft boat which enables her to glide over water that would not be...
Steamboats; Mail steamers; "Queen City"; Excursion boats; Riverboats; Steamboat accidents
The "Queen City" was built at Cincinnati Marine Railways for the Pittsburg and Cincinnati Packet Line. Coming back from a Mardi Gras trip she sank at the Falls of the Ohio on February 17, 1914. She laid up in the Kanawha River at Point Pleasant...
Brownsburg High School Class 1914. Top arc: Forrest O. Webb, Guy H. Morgan, Alonzo Herdrick, Chalres McCaslin, Ronald Everett, John Thornburgh, John Lanahan, Lora Dale; Middle arc: Lelia Courtney, Lawrence Henderson (President), Hazel Duncan...
This early postcard of downtown Chesterton was taken looking north from the corner of Calumet Road and W. Indiana Avenue. Gile Livery & Garage, to the extreme right in the photograph, was later demolished and replaced by a series of automobile...
A photograph of the sisters' house for the Church of the Annunciation B.V.M. in Ireland, IN, which was constructed in 1914. Keywords: house, fence, building.
Idlewold Resort/Park, located near Pendleton, had cottages and swimming lake, created by damming part of Fall Creek. The resort was created in 1914 by the McCarty family on what had been the Peter Mingle farm. Today Idlewold is a golf course and...
This photograph shows four women standing in front of the tabernacle at Oakwood Park. This octagonal structure was built in 1914 and torn down in 1960.
