Louisville Cement Company (Speed, Ind.); The Speedometer (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); The Speed Way (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); The Warning Star (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Louisville...
The Speedometer was a monthly or sometimes bi-weekly newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. The newsletter was focused on safety issues at the plant but also included human interest stories. The Speedometer began publication...
The Broadway Fountain features a maiden on a pedestal surrounded by four tritons and was built by the Janes, Kirtland Iron Company of the Bronx, New York. It was designed by J. P. Victor Andre of France and appeared at the Philadelphia Centennial...
The Broadway Fountain features a maiden on a pedestal surrounded by four tritons and was built by the Janes, Kirtland Iron Company of the Bronx, New York. It was designed by J. P. Victor Andre of France and appeared at the Philadelphia Centennial...
The original part of the building was built sometime in the early to mid 1800s with a new front being added in 1868. It served as a private home, an inn, and a private seminary in the 1850s, according to Brooklyn Cull, who has researched the...
This Charlestown Cemetery Plat book started as a copy created by J. M. Van Hook in 1903 being brought up to date by J. M. Morrow as is stated on page 1 of the book. There is no date given for when it was brought up to date. This was most likely...
In the early to mid 1880s this address was a photography studio run by Manson R. Lanham and William W. Wagner. In 1889, Crozier Monuments was at the same address havng moved from the SE corner of First and Mulberry Streets. The monument company was...
Fordyce Woolen Mill's slogan said it all, "The Home of Good Blankets." This mill was the original Schofield Woolen Mill, founded in 1877 by J. Schofield. In the mid 1920's when Mr. Scholfield died, the company became the Fordyce Woolen Mills. ...
Fordyce Woolen Mill's slogan said it all, "The Home of Good Blankets." This mill was the original Schofield Woolen Mill, founded in 1877 by J. Schofield. In the mid 1920s when Mr. Schofield died, the company became the Fordyce Woolen Mills. It...
Clinton County (Ind.)--History;
Clinton County (Ind.)--Biography
History of Clinton county, Indiana, with historical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families.
Illustrated
Business enterprises; Transportation; Horse-drawn vehicles
Pearl Packing Company was one of the largest pork packing producers in the area and an offshoot of that business was an ice producing plant. In the early to mid 1900s ice wagons plied the streets with huge blocks of ice. Citizens and businesses...
Daughters of Pocahontas. Delaware Council, No. 259. (Charlestown, IN); Improved Order of Red Men; Charlestown (Ind.)
This is the minutes ledger of Delaware Council No. 259 of the Daughters of Pocahontas (DOP) which met at the Red Men Hall in Charlestown, Indiana. Although daughters is in the title, both women and men were members. This chapter was active from its...
Monroe County (Ind.) -- History; Bloomington (Ind.) -- History; Wylie, Jane Melheme (Jen) (1836 - 1865); Wylie Family -- Correspondence; Women -- Indiana -- Monroe County
Jane expresses frustration with letters unanswered, the war, and the longing for peace. She relays witnessing marching soldiers and discusses the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches, incl. Professor Ballentine. Uses the word "secesh" when speaking...
Louisville Cement Company (Speed, Ind.); The Speedometer (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); The Speed Way (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); The Warning Star (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Speed, Ind.;...
The Speedometer was a monthly or sometimes bi-weekly newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. The newsletter was focused on safety issues at the plant but also included human interest stories. The Speedometer began publication...
Freemasons; Greek letter societies; Clubs; Libraries
The laying of the cornerstone for this building took place on April 13, 1871. Besides official papers such as the charter of the Grand Lodge of the State of Indiana, there were placed in the cornerstone such things as: a paper containing the names...
Louisville Cement Company (Speed, Ind.); The Speedometer (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); The Speed Way (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); The Warning Star (Louisville Cement Company employee newsletter); Speed, Ind.;...
The Speedometer was a monthly or sometimes bi-weekly newsletter of the Louisville Cement Company in Speed, Indiana. The newsletter was focused on safety issues at the plant but also included human interest stories. The Speedometer began publication...
Madison had suffered several setbacks economically. It was once a great pork packing center but that industry waned as the big packing plants in the large cities gained magnitude. The woolen mills had begun to slow or close down and it was the...
