Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Greentown Sewage Rates to Rise; Lions Club Receives Lilly Grant; Youth Choir Presents Musical; School Corporation and Teachers Agree
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Community Fest to be Sept. 23; Annual Patriot Day Planned for Sep. 10; Plan Commission Coninues Study of Sign Ordinance; Do you have all your ducks in a row??.....; Music at the...
Railroads; Railroad tracks; Public utility companies; Inclined railroads; IKE
In the early 1990s the Indiana-Kentucky Electrical Company (IKE) refurbished the tracks to enable it to haul heavy cargo down the hill to its plant on the Ohio River. This is a picture of a large transformer being taken down the incline. This was...
The newly built "Reuben Wells" sits at the Jeffersonville yards where she was built for the J M & I Railroad under the supervision and to the specifications of Master Mechanic, Reuben Wells, for whom she was named. Her boiler was tilted forward to...
The "Delta Queen" and her sister ship "Delta King" were fabricated in Scotland and disassembled for shipment to San Francisco. She was then sent to Stockton, California where she was reassembled and fitted for work in the Sacramento area. In 1941...
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...