Monroe County (Ind.); Clear Creek (Monroe County, Ind. : Township); Smithville (Ind.); Smithville (Ind.) -- Smithville News; Clear Creek (Ind.); Carter, Ralph B., d. 1918
Monroe County (Ind.); Clear Creek (Monroe County, Ind. : Township); Smithville (Ind.); Smithville (Ind.) -- Smithville News; Trisler Family; Monroe County Telephone Company; Telephone Exchanges -- Indiana; Harrodsburg (Ind.)
This photograph shows sisters Aunt Mary Neerman and Martha Neerman Hirschman with fish at Oakwood Park. This photograph was taken on September 5, 1901.
Salmon; Fishing; Speedometer (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Correspondence; Trout; World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Indiana--Speed
The Jesse G. Dorsey Collection of World War II Correspondence consists of correspondence from 348 service members and their relatives, written to Jesse Dorsey during World War II. Mr. Dorsey was the Director of Recreation and Welfare and editor of...
Silver Creek High School (Sellersburg, Ind.)--Basketball; Speed (Ind.)--Social life and customs--1940-1950; Fishing
The Jesse G. Dorsey Collection of World War II Correspondence consists of correspondence from 348 service members and their relatives, written to Jesse Dorsey during World War II. Mr. Dorsey was the Director of Recreation and Welfare and editor of...
Soldiers--Correspondence; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives; United States Army in World War II. War in the Pacific; Indiana Army Ammunition Plant--Indiana--Charlestown
Ernest talks about getting home faster. He remembers fishing back home and fishing just isn't the same on this island in the Pacific. He gets to swim but not in the ocean. The Powder Plant is expanding in Charlestown. Beer and coke are rationed but...
Soldiers--Correspondence; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives; United States. Navy--Military life; United States Navy in World War II. War in the Pacific; Peleliu Island (Palau); Indiana Army Ammunition Plant--Indiana--Charlestown; Prisoners...
William is at Peleliu Island. He talks about the DuPont plant in Charlestown. Frank's tobacco crop wasn't so good. He asked about Frank's squirrel hunting and would like to join him. He says he gets to fish. They use hand grenades in the ocean to...
Speed (Ind.)--Social life and customs--1940-1950; Squirrel hunting; Fishing
The Jesse G. Dorsey Collection of World War II Correspondence consists of correspondence from 348 service members and their relatives, written to Jesse Dorsey during World War II. Mr. Dorsey was the Director of Recreation and Welfare and editor of...
The Jesse G. Dorsey Collection of World War II Correspondence consists of correspondence from 348 service members and their relatives, written to Jesse Dorsey during World War II. Mr. Dorsey was the Director of Recreation and Welfare and editor of...
For many years there were commerical boat rides available at Bass Lake and even boats that delivered vacationers to their hotels from a railroad spur that existed. Many people from northern Indiana and Illinois used these modes of transportation...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Boats; Lakes & ponds; Vacations; Fishing;
Cranberry Point is located on the east side of Bass Lake and was once the home of the Bass Lake Country Club. The Country Club was built in 1890. In 1933 a gentleman named Ced White reopened the club as Camp Gridley. Camp Gridley was a place for...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Fishing; Lakes & ponds; Fish hatcheries;Purdue University
In 1912 the Bass Lake Businessmen & Anglers Society built a pond on the site of the future state fish hatchery and began raising fish for stocking the lake. By 1913 the Bass Lake Fish Hatchery was operated and maintained by the State of Indiana. In...
