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To Indiana's Silent Victors
War with Mexico1846 1847 1848Indiana Regiments No's. 1, 2, 3, 4, 54585 men
Indian and British War1811-1812 Battle ofTippecanoeIndians defeated Nov. 7, 1811
War of the RevolutionCapture ofVincennesfrom the British…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VYS_thomas-andrews-hendricks-historical_Indianapolis-IN.html
Plaque 1Vice President of the United States with Democrat President Grover Cleveland, 1885Born September 7, 1819, near Zanesville, OhioDied November 25, 1885, Indianapolis, buried at Crown Hill CemeteryRepresented Shelby County: Indiana House of R…
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Cumberland M.D. toTerre Haute Ind.1806 - 1839
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U19_acton-campground-1859-1905_Indianapolis-IN.html
In June 1859 the Indianapolis District of the Camp-Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church established the 40 acre Acton Campground at this site later known as Acton Park. A hotel, pavilion, man-made lake and cottages were constructe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SRN_indiana-state-house_Indianapolis-IN.html
When Alexander Ralston and Elias Fordham laid out the original Mile Square Plan for Indianapolis, they set aside Square 53 for a "State House" two blocks west of what is now Monument Circle. In 1835 a first state house was completed on the site, m…
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Military Park began its existence in the 1820s as a "Military Reservation" where the state militia occasionally trained. In 1852 the first Indiana State Fair was held on the grounds, and other state fairs occurred there over the next eig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SOM_the-lincoln-funeral-train_Indianapolis-IN.html
Side AAssassinated President Abraham Lincoln's funeral was April 19, 1865 at the White House. The funeral train left for Springfield, Illinois April 21 directed by the military; stops en route allowed mourners to pay homage. In Richmond, Indiana, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SO8_site-of-the-central-canal_Indianapolis-IN.html
Authorized by Indiana's 1836 Internal Improvement Act, Central Canal conceived as link in transportation system connecting Wabash and Erie Canal with Ohio River. State's bankruptcy in 1839 prevented completion of Central Canal. Canal has since pro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SO7_indiana-avenue_Indianapolis-IN.html
African Americans, by the 1890s, had established a vibrant social, commercial, and economic community along Indiana Avenue. Black entertainers, entrepreneurs, politicians, and working people developed the Avenue into a thriving, widely-known neigh…
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Side One The Indianapolis Times (originally published as the Sun in 1888) moved to this site in 1924. In the 1920s, it led a crusade against the Ku Klux Klan, exposing the Klan's influence in Indiana politics and spurring investigations into corru…