These photographs of the City of Huntington and Huntington County were commissioned by the Huntington City-Township Public Library; Huntington, Indiana. Henry Drover's home. 327 Etna Avenue. Southwest corner of Charles Street and Etna Avenue. Ray...
Mike McLaughlin, life-long resident of Madison, is pictured with his horse and dray. A dray was a utility cart used for hauling mostly heavy, commercial merchandise. Many breweries used drays to transport heavy barrels of beer from one place to...
Mike McLaughlin, life-long resident of Madison, is pictured with his horse and dray. A dray was a utility cart used for hauling mostly heavy, commercial merchandise. Many breweries used drays to transport heavy barrels of beer from one place to...
Color Photograph. The original bathhouse and pool at McCormick's Creek State Park. Bathouse was built by Civilian Conservation Corps (late 1930's); it still stands now as a recreation center. The pool was in-filled in the 1970's and replaced.
This photograph from the 1930's shows the Shorty Searfoss Station at Pickwick Road and Harkless Drive. This is now the location of Miller's Merry Manor.
Built in 1898 of red granite, this was home to the August (Gus) Yunker Family, owner of Pearl Packing Company. The brick front porch and the back two-story addition are not original to the house. The original front porch had a gabled roof and...
Clock Face cities; service Koolmotor Wayne Pump; glass Koolmotor Globe; Dennis Beadle
This is a 1930's Clock Face cities service Koolmotor Wayne Pump with original glass Koolmotor Globe. It is on loan to the Syracuse-Wawasee Museum by Dennis Beadle.
Black and White Photograph. View of the Lower Shelter at Brown County State Park. This two-story shelter is the largest in the park; it was built in the early 1930's by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Madison had suffered several setbacks economically. It was once a great pork packing center but that industry waned as the big packing plants in the large cities gained magnitude. The woolen mills had begun to slow or close down and it was the...
