Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Country Cook Inn Closes; Fair Dates Set; Town Council Notes, Eastern Howard County SHows Growth
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Students Participate in Veterans History Project; Town To Buy Dump Truck; Save Items for Rummage Sale
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Tour of Homes Includes Many Lights; December Church Events; Santa COmes to Greentown in a Fire Truck
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: The Palm Sunday Tornado of April 11, 1965 Remembered; Top Artists; Eastern Elementary Fun Night
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Higginbottom Christmas Village Provides Pleasure For Designer And Visitrs Alike; Council Membership to Change by 2008; Chili Supper adn Antiques Appraisals Scheduled for Jan 16;...
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Thieves Ransack 2 Local Stores Tues.; Owen Owens Succumbs Sunday Eve.; Quarterly Association At Fairfield; Jerome Merchant Missing Since Feb.; Home Talent Play of Thirty-seven...
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Local A. C. Stages Batting Orgy Sun.; Reminiscences Bring OUt Another Home Talent Play; H. S. Commencement Excercises Fri. Eve.; Local Robbery Beleived SOlved; 1931 Emerald Now...
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Minstrel To Be Given At H.S. Auditorium; "No Saloon" Rally At Peru Sunday; High School Annual Out Tuesday Morn; Much Confusion of Delinquent Taxes
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Search Underway for New EHS Principal; Greentown Awarded COP Monies; Don't Dump Those Batteries; Town Council Learns Some Expenses Going Up-Some Down; Current Events Club...
The "Princess" and "Island Queen" are shown in the grip of ice during the winter of 1917-1918. The "Island Queen" surivived only to face the inferno at the Cincinnati docks on November 4, 1922. The "Princess" was lost when the ice gorge broke. ...
Steamboats; Riverboats; Marks and Benson; ice gorge; Steamboat accidents
The "Loucinda" was built in 1910 and was one of the casualties of the 1918 ice gorge that claimed several boats in Cincinnati. The inscription says, "Marks and Benson, American Boy excursion to Fern Grove, July 13, 1910.
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...
The "Princess" has a front row seat for the 1910 Madison Regatta. The "Princess" was sister to the "Island Queen" in the Coney Island trade. She was built in 1900. During the terrible winter of 1917-1918 she was wintering at the mouth of the...
Here you can see some of the devastation the ice caused during the harsh winter of 1917-1918. The ferryboat "Trimble" is caught and nearly buried in the thick ice. She did survive but was badly damaged. On February 20, 1918 the newspaper reported,...
This is the Pennsylvania Railroad freight station after the east end of the building had been taken off and a new frame structure had been constructed in its place. This took place sometime around 1918. The doors that you see down the side of the...
In 1823 Jacob Salmon established one of the first breweries west of the Alleghenies. It was situated on, what was then, the eastern outskirts of Madison. We don't know the exact fate of that early brewery, but in 1856 the Greiner Family had...
William J. Johnson, 1953-1918, and his wife Ida were the first Johnsons to live in this home, though it stayed in the Johnson family from about 1890 until 1945. After William J. Johnson died in 1918 it became the home of his brother David and his...
