Betty Waddell Ward showing her horse at Kelsch Dude Ranch. The ranch operated around the late 1930's holding roundups, parades, races, and refreshments.
The Hunter Block was located on the Northwest Corner of Main Street and Green Street. It housed many businesses over the years, including the Kennedy Grocery Store in the early 1930's (seen in photograph) and Harley's Restaurant later.
In the 1930's when this picture was taken, the Madison County Infirmary had a rather extensive farming operation. This barn helped to house 40 cows, 115 hogs and over 1000 chickens. There was a truck garden, an orchard and field crops.
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: 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: Greentown Election Yields Few Changes; Scouting for Food; Glass Museum to Close For Winter
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...
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...
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...
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...
