Clark County Asylum for Aged and Infirm; Poor Farm (Charlestown, Ind.); Charlestown (Ind.); Ledger; Home for Aged and Infirm
This ledger is for the Poor Farm, also known as the Clark County Asylum for Aged and Infirm, which was located on Highway 62 near Charlestown, Indiana. The building was constructed in 1907 and torn down in 2005. Two pictures of this building are...
The Madison County Infirmary, or Poor Farm, was located between Anderson and Chesterfield. It was closed in the early 1970's and the land was purchased by the Anderson Airport.
Built between Meridian street and Main street around 1887, this passenger depot for the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad was taken over by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (Big Four) when the railroads merged in 1889....
The Rider-Lewis Motor Car Company was founded in 1907 in Muncie, Indiana. In 1909 the company moved to a factory that was built for it on the corner of Sycamore and Third Street in Anderson. The company went into receivership in 910 and the...
Several bridges over the White River have connected Anderson with the suburb called Park Place. The first was a swinging foot bridge, which was replaced in the 1890s by an iron bridge. This concrete structure was built in 1921. It was razed in...
Looking north from 11th Street, the Grand Hotel and Theatre and the Elks Home dominate the foreground of this scene. Interurban tracks run down the middle of Main Street.
Anderson's Meridian Street, seen looking north from 12th Street. The movie marquee opposite the Union Building belongs to the Stardust (later the Times) Theater. The interurban tracks are clearly visible down Meridian.
Business districts ; Anderson, Ind. ; Street railroads;
This street scene of Anderson's Meridian Street, looking north from the Union Building, is a wonderful illustration of change in process. Along the curb, several automobiles are parked, while an interurban heads south down the street. Walking...
Colorized postcard shows mouth of cave in Mounds Park. The caves of Mounds Park are almost legendary. An apocryphal story (currently unverified) from the 1920's holds that a child was once lost in one for several hours. No caves are open to the...
The original cemetery in Elwood was established soon after the town was laid out in 1853. At that time the town was called Quincy. The cemetery ran along Duck Creek south of the Lake Erie & Western railroad from 10th to 13th street. The Elwood...
Church of God (Anderson, Ind.) ; Anderson University
Church of God leaders felt drawn to an unused parcel of land in Park Place between Third and Fifth Streets, bordered by Union (later College Ave) when they visited Anderson in 1905. This three-story was the first building on that property. It...
The Alexandria M. E. Church (now First United Methodist Church of Alexandria) dedicated this building in September of 1902. The next year it was gutted by fire and had to be restored.
In 1889, the first church of United Brethren was organized in Anderson. This church was their second building and is located on the southeast corner of 9th Street and Madison Avenue. Currently this building is the home of Grace Temple Apostolic...
