The home was built sometime before 1860 for the Captain Nathan Powell Family, a well known businessman in Madison. It was long known as one of the most beautiful homes in the city. The home originally was set back off the street and boasted...
Monroe County (Ind.); Clear Creek (Monroe County, Ind. : Township); Smithville (Ind.); Smithville (Ind.) -- Smithville News; Carter Family; Deckard Family; McCormick Family; Thrasher Family; Trisler Family; Women's Christian Temperance Union
Monroe County (Ind.); Clear Creek (Monroe County, Ind. : Township); Smithville (Ind.); Smithville (Ind.) -- Smithville News; Fox Family; Sylvester Family; Carter, Ralph B., d. 1918; McMillen's Mill; Nixon, Elmer
The Brainerd family home, pictured here, was completely destroyed by the tornado that swept through Porter on April 7, 1948. Trees were downed, and many buildings, including the town hall, school,and several homes, were damaged or destroyed....
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Tour of Homes Includes Many Lights; December Church Events; Santa COmes to Greentown in a Fire Truck
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Historical SOciety "Burns" Mortgage; Too Much Water for Greentown's Plant; Peddler Ordinance Enacted; Change of Ownership in Finreal Homes
William J. Johnson, 1953-1918, and his wife Ida were the first Johnsons to live in this home, though it stayed in the Johnson family from about 1890 until 1945. After William J. Johnson died in 1918 it became the home of his brother David and his...
Buchta's was a popular meeting place at Cedar Point partly because of its location but also because the store sold a little bit of everything for tourists. This structure remained intact until it was torn down for new residential homes in 2005.
A December 7, 1977 article from The Goshen News about a fire on the north shore that destroyed two homes (William Hurst and Mrs. George Hay cottages) and damaged another (Wiley Spurgeon’s). Later, another fire at the Kale Island home of Dr....
Willkie, Wendell L. ; Presidential elections; Homes & haunts;
Elwood's Wendell Willkie is the only native born Hoosier to be a major party candidate for President. Willkie grew up in this house at the northwest corner of North A and 19th Streets in Elwood.
