Stables; Livery; Business enterprises; Sale barn; Warehouses
This building was probably built to be a livery stable or at least a building to contain horses. The 1859 city directory lists the building as McCubbin and Sons Livery. It was also called a livery and sale barn at one point. For several years in...
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.); Gasoline pumps; Automobiles;
Standard Oil Service Station at corner of CR210 and SR10 on Bass Lake's east side. Now home to Bass Lake Restaurante. The gasoline pumps here are non-electric or hand-fed pumps.
The Kaiserhoff Hotel was located at the east end of Bass Lake in what is known as Winona. It was a vacation site for many people from both Indiana as well as Illinois.
Tomassi's Resort was located on CR 700E immediately east of Bass Lake. A dirt road connected the resort with the lake. Most recently it was home to the Ukranian Orthodox Church.
Steamboats; Riverboats; Madison, Indiana; Rivers; "Kentucky"; "East St. Louis"
Here the "Kentucky" and "East St. Louis" pass Madison, Indiana. You can find out more about the boats by using the search feature and typing in the name of each boat.
Slide dated SEP 1986 of two buildings on the east side of State Road 13 in Sidney, Indiana. The two-story building has a sign for ""PAST TO PRESENT"" antiques. A glass globe sign reads ""SIDNEY"" and has a symbol for
Slide dated SEP 1986 of two commercial buildings on the east side of State Road 13 in Sidney, Indiana. The two-story building has a decorative tin cornice and has a sign for ""the country store / ANTIQUES / & collectibles.""
Anderson's Grand Opera house, east of the Grand Hotel, was dedicated in 1895. The Grand became the Granada Theater, hosting vaudeville acts, during the Depression and finally the Starland movie theater. The building was razed in the early 1950s.
This is a ledger of the tolls received at Middle Toll Gate in Clark County, Indiana from 1867-1890. The Charlestown and Jeffersonville Turnpike Company managed the toll gate. The ledger was recorded by Thomas F. Prather, W.M. Gibson, A.J. Hay, J.B....
Several photographs of a fatal truck accident on State Road 56 east of Birdseye, IN. Shown in the lower left picture is Roger A. Vogler, who was killed in the accident. Keywords: man, trucks, accident, wreck, newspaper.
A photograph in the Jasper Herald of the Flat Rock ferry at the east fork of the White River in Boone Township, Dubois County, IN. Pictured from left to right: Hilda Himsel, Helen Deppen, a Deppen child, Lottie Deppen, Samuel Himsel, ferryman Bud...
