Local news depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: EASTERN TEAM IN TOP 10 OF THE WORLD [photo]; Memorial Program Held at Century Villa [photo]
Local news depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: "Met" Tower Goes Up; All Gave Some...Some Gave All; New Catering Business Offers Good Tasting Food [photo]; Building a Wall [photo]
Local news depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Greentown Develops "Wish List" for Stimulus Money; Patterson Has Triple Perfect Score [photo]; Public's Voice Sought on Extra Curricular Activities; Exhibit on Native Americans at...
Local news depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Scott Comfort is New Deputy [photo]; Historical Society is Place of Activity [photos]
Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: First Step Taken Toward "Main Street" Project; Grapevine Photo WIns State Award; Beginning Third Year
Built in 1898 of red granite, this was home to the August (Gus) Yunker Family, owner of Pearl Packing Company. The brick front porch and the back two-story addition are not original to the house. The original front porch had a gabled roof and...
Business enterprises; Transportation; Horse-drawn vehicles
According to Harry Lemen's commentary, this was the last horse drawn coal wagon in Madison. Notice the smaller wheels in the front of the wagon. This was for maneuvering into tight spaces. Many folks who had coal furnaces will remember the...
George Dickinson had a livery stable here as early as 1886. The site served as a livery under Pickney Craig, James Phillips, Will Moyers, and Robert Bingham until the early 1920s. Between 1923 and 1925 the Coleman-Larimore Motor Company located...
Stables; Livery; Business enterprises; Sale barn; Warehouses
This building was probably built to be a livery stable or at least a building to contain horses. The 1859 city directory lists the building as McCubbin and Sons Livery. It was also called a livery and sale barn at one point. For several years in...
The home was built sometime before 1860 for the Captain Nathan Powell Family, a well known businessman in Madison. It was long known as one of the most beautiful homes in the city. The home originally was set back off the street and boasted...
Darby Davis and his wife, Mae are shown relaxing along the Ohio as the Island Queen floats by. Darby Davis was born in Carroll County, Kentucky in 1886. In his younger days he was a blacksmith and boat tender, and in later years worked in the...
Railroad construction & maintenance; Telegraph; Telegraph lines; People; Telecommunication cables
This is a group of eight men, their hand-car and a cable reel wagon. They are a line crew for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Their boss was a man named Will Johnson and they are likely repairing a telegraph line.
In September, 1937, the City Council agreed to buy the former Trow's Perfection Flour Mill building which had been damaged by the 1937 flood. The original plan, pushed by local businessmen, was to lease the building to a business concern from...
The Madison-Milton bridge is advancing. It will soon reach the last piling. Notice the bracing and support structures used to reinforce the grid. The "Margaret J" is in the foreground.
The inscription on the old picture reads, "Madison & Milton Ferry Landing--1908." The landing at Madison and the ferryboat, "Trimble" looked much like this during the winter of 1917 and 1918 when some of the worst weather of the century hit much...
