Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Search Underway for New EHS Principal; Greentown Awarded COP Monies; Don't Dump Those Batteries; Town Council Learns Some Expenses Going Up-Some Down; Current Events Club...
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Science Fair Awards; Council Votes to Proceed Toward Grant; School technology Report Heard
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Meeting Scheduled to Discuss Appearance of Downtown; Greentown Elections to be November 7; The President Makes Stop in Greentown
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: First Step Taken Toward "Main Street" Project; Grapevine Photo WIns State Award; Beginning Third Year
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Business Assoc. Elects; School Board Elections Coming; Legion Hall Undergoing Renovation
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Logo Design Sought To Honor 150 Years of Greentown History; Shelter from te Storm; Elections to Be Tuesday May 7
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Election Day to Be May 7; Classrooms to Be Air COnditioned; Scouts Clean Up; New Poliece Car Ordered
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Around 1863 John J. Craig went into partnership with Fred Dubach and opened a dry goods store at this location. The partnership lasted only about one year and John Craig then brought his brother Henry into the business. They formed the Craig and...
James Vawter built his log cabin on the site that the roundhouse would one day occupy. This was not far into the 1800's and the land was first a forest to be cut down and then it was farm and pasture land. The good farmer could not know what the...
The Hebron School was built in the 1850s. It was a substantial building made of stone. There was a cupola built atop the building with a rope extending downward inside so the bell could be rung. We do not know how long the bell was in existence or...
The 1886 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps show this building as a furniture store but we can't be sure who owned it at that time. We do know that by the early 1900s Edward J. Meyers had his business here. Mr. Meyers sold furniture, pianos and musical...
In 1823 Jacob Salmon established one of the first breweries west of the Alleghenies. It was situated on, what was then, the eastern outskirts of Madison. We don't know the exact fate of that early brewery, but in 1856 the Greiner Family had...
This school hack was from the Ryker's Ridge School area. We don't know exactly where or when it was in use. The school hack, despite its primitive looks, was a novel and improved mode of transportation. Without the hack, choices were walking,...
The Sanborn Fire Insurance maps show this building as a dwelling in 1886 and we know from city directories Ernest Downey lived here in 1909. In 1912 George Frank lived here and operated a grocery store on the ground floor. By 1947 it was called...
