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...
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Work Begins on Toll Road Park; Two Greentown Men to Drive Car in "The Great Race"; Dealin' Wheels in G'town
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Not "Up to the Minute" but "Back to the Century"; A Chance to Own a Greentown Brick; Cast call; Sesquicentennial Quilt to be Offered; Joe Rice Paperweights to be Issued
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Greentown Election Yields Few Changes; Scouting for Food; Glass Museum to Close For Winter
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.
Charles Hamilton Rousch was born on October 8, 1890 and passed away on November 9, 1978 at age 88. He was a life-long resident of Madison. In 1908, at the age of 18, he founded the C.H. Rousch and Company located at 217-219 East Main Street. His...
W. H. Peters went to work for E. Vogler in 1899 at Vogler's Drug Store in this building. In 1906 he purchased the store from Mr. Vogler. Peters was a pharmacist, having graduated from the College of Pharmacy at Louisville, and he had served as...
Ray, James Brown, 1794-1848--Archives; Indiana--Politics and government
Introduction provides background information on the state during the period of Ray's governorship. Transcriptions of orignal documents from his terms as acting governor and two administrations. Includes index and bibliographic footnotes.
Louisville Cement Company (Speed, Ind.); The Warning Star (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Speed, Ind.; Sellersburg, Ind.; Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc.
This is the 1966 June and October issues of The Speed Way. The Speed Way was a monthly newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. The newsletter was focused on safety issues at the plant but also included human interest stories....
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...
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...
