New officer installation Office of Brownsburg Chapter, Order of DeMolay. (left to right) Steve Burris, Lebanon, installing Officer D'Wayne Walters, Master Counselor Gregory A. Hole, Senior Counselor, Frederick Gough, Junior counselor, David Bray...
This scrapbook was given to James T. and Mary Catherine “Kate” Hiestand by Mother Hiestand, April 12, 1884. It contains obituaries, newspaper clippings, picture clippings, and advertising. Most items do not have dates but the latest date found...
United States -- Census, 1880; Registers of births, etc. -- Indiana; Daviess County (Ind.) -- Genealogy; Dearborn County (Ind.) -- Genealogy; Decatur County (Ind.) -- Genealogy; DeKalb County (Ind.) -- Genealogy.; Delaware County (Ind.) --...
Original returns of the assistant marshals for the state of Indiana, recording deaths by county and township for the year ending May 31, 1880, including Daviess through Greene counties. Individual pages for Dearborn, Decatur and DeKalb counties...
This image shows firemen working on a hose in order to spray the fire that is spitting out of the windows of the Tavern Hotel, which they are standing in front of.
Steamboats; Riverboats; "City of Madison"; Dikes (Engineering)
Built in Madison in 1882, the boat was the second "City of Madison," the first having been lost in a devastating explosion during the Civil War. On June 18, 1894, she was returning from a trip to Memphis, with a stop-over in Owensboro, Kentucky,...
South Bend (Ind.)--Description and travel; Mishawaka (Ind.)--Description and travel; Industries--Indiana--South Bend; Elks (Fraternal order). South Bend Lodge No. 235--History
Sellersburg (Ind.); Speed (Ind); El Paso (Tex.); Photography
These photographs are in a 3 ring binder. It is not clear who took or collected the photographs. Many of the images are from the Sellersburg and Speed, Indiana area. There are photographs from other unidentified places. The pages are double sided...
In 1867 the city council decided Madison needed to update and improve its water works. Industrialization and increased population were putting pressure on a deteriorating water system. They instructed A. M. Cornett, City Engineer, to submit plans...
Construction was begun in 1879 and the intended use of the building was as a "school house for the colored pupils." In short order the patrons were unhappy with the location of the school. "The noise and bustle of business localities" seemed to...