History; County government; Pioneers; Families; Farm life; Farming;
Mr. McCormick describes his work as an "An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with an Extended Survey of Modern Developments in the Reclamation of Lands and the Progress of Town and Country".
LaGrange County (Ind.)--Biography; LaGrange County (Ind.)--History; Noble County (Ind.)--Biography;Noble County (Ind.)--History
Part I, History of La Grange county, y J.H.Herick with township histories by various contributors. Part II, History of Noble county, by Weston A. Goodspeed with biographical sketches edited by Charles Blanchard.
Rose Island (Charlestown, Ind. : Amusement Park); Brochures; Charlestown, Ind.
This binder contains a copy of the pamphlet “Rose Island 14 Miles Above Louisville on the Beautiful Ohio”. The pamphlet is an advertisement for the amusement park and contains a history of the land on which it was built. Rose Island was founded...
Table of Contents: Hutchins, Thomas A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, 1778; Imlay, George A Topographical Description of the Westtern Territory of North America, 1793; Volney, C. F. A View of the Soil and...
Lawrence County (Ind.)--History; Lawrence County (Ind.)--Biography; Lawrence County (Ind.)--Genealogy; Orange County (Ind.)--History; Orange County (Ind.)--Biography; Orange County (Ind.)--Genealogy; Washington County (Ind.)--History; Washington...
Fort Wayne (Ind.)--History;
Allen County (Ind.)--History;
Allen County (Ind.)--Biography
Pictorial history of Fort Wayne, Indiana; a review of two centuries of occupation of the region about the head of the Maumee river; also the story of the townships of Allen county by Mrs. Samuel R.Taylor
Illustrated.
Green-towned photographic postcard. The Pavillion at Mounds Park was a popular place to dance during the summer when the Union Traction Company operated Mounds Park as an amusement park.
Earthworks (Archaeology) ; Parks ; Indians of North America;
Colorized Photographic postcard incorrectly identified as a fort, which is in reality one of the smaller Adena-Hopewell mounds from which Mounds Park takes its name.
Colorized postcard shows mouth of cave in Mounds Park. The caves of Mounds Park are almost legendary. An apocryphal story (currently unverified) from the 1920's holds that a child was once lost in one for several hours. No caves are open to the...
Mounds State Park was originally part of the Bronnenberg family lands. The park was sold to the Union Traction Company and operated as an amusement park into the 1920's. When the UTC could no longer maintain the park, the Madison County...
Indiana--Pioneer life; Indiana--Soldiers and sailors--War of 1812; Pigeon Roost massacre, 1812;
Narrative history of Indiana from the French colonization to early statehood. Individual chapter topics include: schools, animals, Internal improvements, the underground railroad, and the mound builders.
History of Gibson County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions, with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families.
