The "Hattie Brown" was built in 1884 and made a regular run from Warsaw to Madison, Indiana and back daily. She was converted to an oil engine in 1915; two years later she was lost in the terrible freeze of 1917-1918 when the Ohio River froze for...
The showboat, "Water Queen" was once host to, and co-star with, Gloria Swanson during the filming of 'Stage Struck'. The "Water Queen" looks like anything but a movie star while resting along side the levee at Madison, Indiana. She sank at her...
Here the old depot bell is displayed on the Lanier home's lawn. It was just one resting place for the bell before it was given to the Jefferson County Historical Society where it now resides.
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This view of the incline was taken in about 1900. Notice the young boy sitting on a log alongside the tracks. Perhaps he is waiting to see the train go by or just resting before going on his way.
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Revolutionary War veteran, John Ward, Sr., was moved to a new resting place in the Brownsburg Cemetery, Brownsburg Indiana, on Friday, June 15, 1984. Ward died at the age of 95 in 1845 and had been buried on his son's farm in Lincoln Township, then...
