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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BCH_foundation-rock_Greencastle-IN.html
FromPortland Mills BridgeBuilt 1856Relocated 1960
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BCG_portland-mills_Greencastle-IN.html
This marker stands on the corner of four Townships on the Parke and Putnam Co. line, once the center of the thriving rural town of Portland Mills.Settled in the early 1800'sCHRISTIAN CHURCHEstablished 1838 - Relocated 1959WATER-POWERED MILLBuilt 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12AV_putnam-county-civil-war-honor-roll_Greencastle-IN.html
( Plaque - "One" )
Civil War Veterans who died during the war
W. F. Boyd ▫ J. W. Busby ▫ W. Conklin J. H. McGill ▫ J. Singer
( Plaque - "Two" )
( Row One )
W. Ball ▫ A. C. Batte ▫ S. Baugh ▫ G. B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM127X_minshall-laboratory-depauw-university_Greencastle-IN.html
The early 1930's was a time for great chemical research productivity at DePauw. It was to this decade that William M. Blanchard, Dean of the University, hired Percy Julian as a research fellow. Blanchard had been Julian's mentor during his undergr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM127W_indiana-asbury-depauw-university_Greencastle-IN.html
DePauw University was first named Indiana Asbury University. Within two decades after the founding of Greencastle, the Indiana Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church decided that the time had arrived to establish an institution of higher learnin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM127C_the-ancient-peoples-who-once-walked-here_Greencastle-IN.html
We seldom pause to think of the peoples who long ago (some say 13,000 B.C. - 8,000 B. C.) Moved back and forth across this land. We know nothing, about these "Old Ones" and their times, they left no traces visible to us. They are known to archaeol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM127A_the-founding-of-the-lilly-family-in-greencastle-indiana_Greencastle-IN.html
It is fitting that we pause to remember that a long time ago some most unusual people came out of the East into the wilderness of Indiana to settle in the backwoods town of Greencastle. Here, these pioneers would give freely of their intellectual,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1278_prevo-1900-1992_Greencastle-IN.html
Prevos as we knew it started as the Model Store in 1900 as a men's haberdashery located at 12 E. Washington St., Greencastle, Ind. Owned by Samuel C. Prevo. From his second marriage to Emily Hogue from Clark County Illinois they had three sons, Ed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM126Y_handys-dairy-1916-2002_Greencastle-IN.html
A thriving business started with half a cow on east Anderson Street. In 1916 Grandma Edith Handy started milking a neighbor's cow for half the milk and was unaware that she was opening a new business that would ultimately serve seven counties surr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM126V_the-founding-of-greencastle-indiana_Greencastle-IN.html
The name Indiana means "Land of the Indians". For untold centuries, some say millennia, the Indians moved across the land. It was their hunting ground. Permanent Indian settlements in Indiana were to the north and to the south. And then the white …