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97 unusual facts about Indiana


1961 Indianapolis 500

John Masariu, 38, of Danville, Indiana was serving as a member of the fire/safety crew.

Adler Seeds

After a fire at its seed facility, Adler Seeds sold its facility and farm ground to Beck's Hybrids, based in Atlanta, Indiana, in 2009.

Adler Seeds is an American company that was founded in 1937 by Howard Adler, in Sharpsville, Indiana.

Albert Henry Vestal

Born on a farm near Frankton, in Madison County, Indiana, on January 18, 1875, he attended common schools, worked in steel mills and factories and attended the Indiana State Normal School, now Indiana State University, at Terre Haute.

Alma Eldredge

Eldredge was born in Warren Township, Marion County, Indiana.

Avery Craven

Avery Odelle Craven (August 12, 1885 near Ackworth, Iowa – January 21, 1980, Chesterton, Indiana) was a historian who specialized in the study of the nineteenth-century United States and the American Civil War.

Bertrand Township, Michigan

St. Joseph County, Indiana, lies to the south, with Olive Township to the southwest, Warren Township due south, and German Township with the city of South Bend to the south on the east side of the township.

Bill Vernon

He MC'd at many a bluegrass performance or festival, including Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom Festival in Indiana, and festivals of Ralph Stanley and Carlton Haney.

Blanche Stuart Scott

On October 24, 1910, she made her debut as a member of the Curtiss exhibition team at an air meet in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Brandt Hershman

He currently serves as the Majority Whip and represents Senate District 7, which includes parts of White, Tippecanoe, Jasper, Clinton, Carroll and Howard Counties.

Bud Tinning

After leaving baseball, Tinning worked for Mace Service in Terre Haute, Indiana and then owned and managed a motel in Evansville, Indiana with his wife, Inez Barnett of Terre Haute, whom he married in 1932.

Cal Collins

Cal Collins (May 5, 1933-August 27, 2001) was an American jazz guitarist born in Medora, Indiana.

Cal Crum

In 1916, Crum again played for two teams: the Terre Haute Highlanders of Terre Haute, Indiana, and the Muskegon Reds of Muskegon, Michigan.

Carlos Almaraz

Almaraz was born in Mexico City, but his family moved when he was a young child, settling in Chicago, Illinois, where his father owned a restaurant for five years and worked in Gary steel mills for another four.

Casqui

Due to this controversy some claim that the town of Pacaha was actually located on the present day site of Terre Haute, Indiana with the Casqui tribe living near present-day Vincennes, Indiana.

Cassie Hack

Some time later, the pair investigate a series of murders around a veterinary clinic in Eminence, Indiana.

Center Grove, Indiana

Center Grove is an unincorporated community located in White River Township, Johnson County, Indiana.

Ceylon, Indiana

Ceylon is an unincorporated town in Wabash Township, Adams County, Indiana.

College Township

The village of College Corner takes its name from its position in the northwest corner of this section and the Indiana town of College Corner took its name from its Ohio counterpart.

Corbett Davis

Richard Corbett "Corby" Davis (December 8, 1914 in Lowell, Indiana – May 28, 1968 in Houlton, Maine) was an American football fullback.

Covington Dells, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limits on January 1, 2006 as part of Fort Wayne's Southwest Extended Annexation of parts of Wayne and Aboite townships.

Crash Craddock Live!

The album was recorded at the Little Nashville Opry in Nashville, Indiana.

D. Omer Seamon

Early jobs included trimming windows for a department store in Evansville, Indiana, and preparing posters for a dry goods store.

Darrough

Darrough Chapel, Indiana, an unincorporated town in Center Township, Howard County

Derek Curry

Curry was formerly a Senior Leader and Pastor of Next Gen and Families at Granger Community Church in Granger, Indiana where he oversaw the 6th-12th grade ministry.

Don Nelson Laramore

Born in Starke County, Indiana, Laramore studied law at the predecessor of the now Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and the University of Chicago.

Dona Massin

In Dona's later years, she and daughter Jodie would visit the Wizard of Oz Festivals in Chesterton, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Chicago.

Duane Richards

Duane Lee Richards (born December 16, 1936 in Spartanburg, Indiana) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

Edgar Whitcomb

Whitcomb was born on November 6, 1917 in Hayden, Indiana, the second child and first son of John Whitcomb and Louise Doud Whitcomb.

Elijah Martindale

In the spring of 1832 Martindale moved with his wife to Flat Rock, near New Castle, Indiana, in Henry County, Indiana.

Ervin

Ervin Township, Howard County, Indiana, one of eleven townships in Howard County, Indiana, USA

Eunice White Beecher

When Henry Ward Beecher, a clergyman, settled in his pastorate in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, in 1837, he returned east to claim her as his bride, having been engaged to her over seven years.

Federal Contested Elections Act

Prior to the Dornan v. Sanchez contest, the House last considered a contested election in 1985: McIntyre v. McCloskey in the Indiana's 8th congressional district.

Fintan Mundwiler

When St. Meinrad's Abbey was destroyed by fire on 2 September 1887, he rebuilt the monastery on an even greater scale, founded a commercial college at Jasper, Indiana, and assisted in the foundation of the Priory of St. Gall in North Dakota.

Frances Tilton Weaver

She was reported to be the youngest woman attorney to have licenses to practice law in the state supreme courts, and she was the first woman ever to practice law in Porter County, Indiana.

Frank K. Edmondson

He also negotiated the donation of the privately owned Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana to Indiana University.

G-W Invader

G-W Invader is a line of small recreational power boats that were manufactured by Arne Gray and George Wooldridge of Sharpsville, Indiana, United States.

Gemini 3

The spacecraft is on display within the Grissom Memorial of Spring Mill State Park, two miles east of Grissom's hometown of Mitchell, Indiana.

Gerald Miller

Miller also spearheaded the creation of the EMS in Wells County, Indiana that continues to serve the citizens of Wells County.

Henry W. Moore

He played for Chicago teams Chicago Giants and Leland Giants almost exclusively for the rest of his baseball career, with exception of part of a season he played for the French Lick, Indiana Plutos in 1913.

Herr

Herr, Indiana, an unincorporated town in Perry Township, Boone County, Indiana, USA

High School Rock

Recorded December 2–December 16, 1997 at the Sonic Iguana in Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

Illinois Route 32

Illinois 32 overlaps Illinois 33 from Shumway to Effingham, where Illinois 32 terminates and Illinois 33 continues east through Effingham to the Vincennes, Indiana area.

Indiana Landmarks

Indiana Landmarks helped lead the effort to bring riverboat gaming to Orange County, Indiana as a way to revitalize the French Lick Resort Casino and the West Baden Springs Hotel.

Indiana, Pennsylvania

Arguably the most celebrated and notorious environmentalist author of the twentieth century, Edward Abbey (1927–1989), was born at the Indiana hospital and raised in Indiana and near the Indiana County towns and villages of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, Tanoma, and Home, Pennsylvania.

Indiana's NewsCenter

Part of the plan to win back viewers included the introduction of new technology such as text messaging, an improved website with more online video, and upgrading weather equipment including the introduction of a VIPIR radar system.

James Johnston Thornton

Thornton excelled in his studies and was named justice of the peace for Warrick County, Indiana (1842).

James M. Hamilton

Hamilton enrolled at Union Christian College in Merom, Indiana.

Jefferson Township, Cass County, Indiana

Davis Cemetery is located a mile east of Burnettsville and a half mile east of the White County-Cass county line, and is commonly referred to as the Davis Cemetery Burnettsville in obituaries.

John A. Hiigli

On June 1, 1943, John A. Hiigli was born into a small farming community in Union Mills, Indiana.

Josh Devore

Devore resided in Seelyville, a small community in Vigo County, Indiana during his early pro baseball career, getting his start in what was known as the Trolley League in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Keith O'Conner Murphy

When he was a sophomore, the family moved to Sweetser, Indiana in Grant County, where his father worked at the local Fisher Body plant.

Lake Papakeechie

Lake Papakeechie is a small man-made lake of 179 acres (0.72 km²) located in Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States.

Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel

The village of Hessen Cassel, Indiana near Fort Wayne, founded by German immigrants, is named for the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel.

Liberty Hills, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limts as part of Fort Wayne's Southwest Extended Annexation of parts of Wayne and Aboite townships.

Linden Depot

The old stage road between Crawfordsville and Linden was given to the railroad as an inducement to get them to build through Linden.

Lonely Ol' Night

The song was recorded at Belmont Mall in Belmont, Indiana, was produced by Mellencamp (under the alias "Little Bastard") and Don Gehman, engineered by Gehman and Greg Edward.

Ludwig Park, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limits on March 6, 1979 as part of Fort Wayne's Ludwig Park Annexation.

Mabel Leigh Hunt

She was raised in Greencastle and, from age ten until her physician father died, in Plainfield (a center of Indiana Quaker activity).

Maclyn McCarty

McCarty was born in 1911 in South Bend, Indiana, the second of four sons of a branch manager for the Studebaker Corporation while it was still a firm for horse-drawn carriages.

Mike Lockwood Memorial Tournament

The Mike Lockwood Memorial Tournament was a professional wrestling memorial event produced by the New Breed Wrestling Association (NBWA) promotion, which took place on March 18, 2005 at ZB Falcons in South Bend, Indiana.

Montgomery Township, Gibson County, Indiana

Something delayed his return with family to claim that land, so he ended up settling on the west bank of Black River near the present site of Owensville.

National Prohibition Foundation

The National Prohibition Foundation is a non-profit Colorado corporation established in 2001 and originally incorporated in Indiana in 1952.

Nine Mile, Fort Wayne

Nine Mile is an unincorporated town southwest of Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States near the Fort Wayne International Airport.

Ohio State Route 122

The route also used to continue west of the Indiana state line as Indiana State Road 122 west to its terminus at US 27 east of Abington, Indiana.

Oscar Raymond Luhring

Born in Haubstadt, Indiana, Luhring attended the public schools and received a B.L. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1900.

Otis R. Bowen

Vernie also owned a hardware store in Leiters Ford, was a trustee for Aubbeenaubbee Township, President of the Woodlawn Hospital Board of Trustees, and President of the Leiters Ford Merchants Association.

Phillip Hinkle

In 1978, he was elected Wayne Township, Indiana Assessor, a position to which he was re-elected three times.

Pike Township, Warren County, Indiana

The township's only town is West Lebanon; it has a population of 793 and contains two-thirds of the residents of the township.

Point Isabel

Point Isabel, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Grant County, Indiana

Preble County, Ohio

After finishing fifth grade, Preble County students attend Union County Middle School and Union County High School, both located across the state line in Liberty, Indiana.

College Corner Union School (grades K-5) is physically located in both Ohio and Indiana (the state line runs through the middle of the building) and serves students from both College Corner, Ohio, and West College Corner, Indiana.

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center

Holy Cross Medical Center was founded in 1961 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross from Notre Dame, Indiana.

Renner, Indiana

The northern half of Indiana, including what became Licking Township and Renner, was flattened by two glaciers millions of years ago.

Richard McKinley

In July of the same year, he was appointed director of Department of Financial Institutions of the State of Indiana under the new banking code of 1933.

Robert Francis Catterson

After completing his medical studies, Catterson established a medical practice in Rockville, Indiana, just prior to the start of the American Civil War.

Robert O. Fink

Robert Orwill Fink (4 November 1905, Geneva, Indiana – 17 December 1988, Mount Vernon, Ohio) was a papyrologist with a special interest in Roman military papyri.

Rolland D. McCune

He earned the Bachelor of Arts degree at Taylor University, Fort Wayne Campus (Indiana), and the Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Theology, and Doctor of Theology degrees at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana

WLYV "Reedemmer Radio" 1450 AM in Fort Wayne,plus audiostream.

Rotolactor

As of 2013, a working Rotolactor is open to the public as a part of the "Dairy Adventure" tour at Fair Oaks Farms in Fair Oaks, Indiana.

Royal Oaks, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limits on September 21, 1991 as part of Fort Wayne's Northeast Phase I Annexation.

Seth Galloway

Seth Jordan Galloway (born January 12, 1987 in Evansville, Indiana) is an American Samoan association football player.

Stan Coveleski

In 1929, after leaving major league baseball, Coveleski relocated to South Bend, Indiana.

Stanley Armour Dunham

The most recent native European ancestor was Falmouth Kearney, a farmer who emigrated from Moneygall, County Offaly, Ireland, during the Great Irish Famine and settled in Jefferson Township, Tipton County, Indiana, United States.

Stephen S. Harding

He died on February 12, 1891 in Milan, Ripley County, Indiana and was buried in the Greendale Cemetery, Greendale, Indiana.

Supreme Court of Indiana

In December 1816 Jonathan Jennings, Indiana's first governor, nominated John Johnson of Vincennes Knox County; James Scott of Charlestown Clark County; and Jesse Holman of Aurora Dearborn County, to serve as the first panel of judges on the Indiana Supreme Court.

Initially the Court shared space on the second floor of the Marion County Courthouse, before moving to the third Indiana Statehouse.

Thomas McMurtry

Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on 4 June 1935, McMurtry attended elementary school in Rockville, Indiana, and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in June 1957.

Tim Neese

Neese is also the Director of the Solid Waste Management District of Elkhart County.

Tommy Thevenow

He had operated a grocery store in his hometown of Madison, Indiana following his retirement from baseball.

Tony Kanal

While most of his early years were spent in London, Kanal and his family also spent brief periods living in Toronto, Canada, and Munster, Indiana, before eventually returning to London.

Watersheds of Indiana

Many towns of this area have "Watermelon Festivals" such as Owensville, Poseyville and Vincennes (Knox County) usually at harvest time (first weeks of August).

Waynedale, Fort Wayne

Waynedale is a neighborhood area in the southwest quadrant of Fort Wayne, Indiana in Allen County.

Whitewater Memorial State Park

Four counties gave up part of their land so that the state of Indiana could create the memorial park: Fayette, Franklin, Union and Wayne.

William H. Sylvis

In 1990 the state of Pennsylvania honored Sylvis with the dedication of a historical marker at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

William J. Schroeder

William J. Schroeder (1932, Jasper, Indiana – August 7, 1986), was one of the first recipients of an artificial heart at the age of 52.

Zachariah Cicott

He left Warren County immediately and went down the river, returning later with the army and passing back through Warren County to reach Tippecanoe County where the Battle of Tippecanoe took place on November 7, 1811.


1998–99 New York Knicks season

Game 5 @ Market Square Arena, Indianapolis (June 9): New York 101, Indiana 94

Albert Berg

After leaving the Indiana Institution for the Deaf, Berg enrolled at the "Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb" (later renamed Gallaudet University), run by Edward Miner Gallaudet in Washington, D.C. He was a halfback and captain of the football team at Gallaudet.

Augustin de La Balme

In northeast Indiana, near the Allen – Whitley County line, along the Eel River, A brass and stone marker placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1930, reads: "In memory of Col. Augustin de La Balme and his soldiers who were killed in battle with the Miami Indians under Little Turtle at this place, November 5, 1780."

Bass Mansion

John H. Bass Mansion, Fort Wayne, Indiana, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Catherine Eddy Beveridge

Much to the chagrin of her role models and mentors, her mother Abby Eddy and her aunt Delia Caton Field, Catherine married Albert J. Beveridge, an Indiana Senator, in 1907.

Charles Cathcart

Charles W. Cathcart (1809 – 1888), United States Representative and Senator from Indiana

Culp's Hill

He sent a small party to reconnoiter, and they encountered the 7th Indiana Infantry of the I Corps, part of Brig. Gen. James S. Wadsworth's division, which had been in the rear guarding the corps trains and was now linked up with the Iron Brigade, digging in following their fierce battle on Seminary Ridge.

David L. Cornwell

Although an unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress, Cornwell was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth Congress, representing Indiana's 8th congressional district.

Evansville, IN–KY Metropolitan Statistical Area

Because it includes counties in both Indiana and Kentucky, the Evansville metropolitan area is sometimes referred to as Kentuckiana.

George VIII of Georgia

Ronald Grigor Suny, The Making of the Georgian Nation: 2nd edition (December 1994), Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-20915-3, page 45-46

Harvey N. Middleton

Middleton was a member of several national, state, and local medical associations: the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American College of Physians, the American Thoracic Society, the Indiana State Medical Association, the Aesculapian Society, the Indiana Thoracic Society, and the Marion County Medical Society.

Henry Elliott Hudson

In 1901 the various volumes of his manuscript collection were privately sold, though it is now publicly available at the National Library of Ireland, the Boston Public Library, and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Henry's brother William Elliot Hudson (1796-1853) was a barrister noted for his philanthropy and his support of the Irish language.

Henryville, Indiana

The town is mentioned the 2007 song "Up In Indiana" by Lyle Lovett and his Large Band.

Indiana Democratic Party

In 1913, Thomas Marshall, Governor of Indiana, became yet another Democratic Hoosier to be a Vice President (under Woodrow Wilson).

Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods

Writer Rob Williams noted Indiana's character in the first two films is very different, pointing out a scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indiana lowers his bazooka aimed at the Nazis, declaring he would give up the Ark of the Covenant for Marion Ravenwood.

Williams felt Indiana from the prequel Temple of Doom would not do this, and wanted to explore why Indiana becomes less materialistic.

Indiana Pacers

It is owned and operated by the Capital Improvement Board, City of Indianapolis, Indiana and its groundbreaking was on July 22, 1997 by Ellerbe Becket Architects & Engineers.

James Baskett

After abandoning his studies of pharmacology for financial reasons, James Baskett supported himself as an actor, moving from his home town of Indianapolis, Indiana to New York City, New York and joining the company of Bill Robinson, better known as Mr. Bojangles.

Jane E. Henney

She received her undergraduate training at Manchester University, an MD degree from Indiana University School of Medicine and did postgraduate work at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Jeffersonville, Indiana

In February 2011, Kentucky governor Steve Beshear and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced that the two states, along with the City of Jeffersonville, would allocate $22 million in funding to complete the Big Four Bridge project– creating a pedestrian and bicycle path to link Louisville and Jeffersonville.

John Lakian

He has served on the boards of Merchants Capital, Mr. Coffee, JoS. A. Bank Clothiers, Peoples Department Stores, Apparel Marketing Corporation, FNEDC, Sheffield Medical Technologies, The Molloy Group, and Standard Life of Indiana.

Joyful Noise

Joyful Noise Recordings, an independent record label founded in Indiana in 2003

KCAC

Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex, a convention and athletic center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Kevin R. Wilson

Indiana athletic director Fred Glass announced the dismissal of Bill Lynch and the rest of the coaching staff on November 28, 2010, following a third straight season with only one conference victory.

Metabolife

Metabolife took an active role in lobbying against regulation of ephedra, forming an advocacy group called the Dietary Supplement Safety and Science Coalition and contributing heavily to Congressmen Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) and Dan Burton (R-Ind.), among other politicians.

Mike Bonifer

Born on December 31, 1953, in Jasper, Indiana, Bonifer grew up on a farm near Ireland, Indiana, the oldest of six children of Bob and Fern (Henke) Bonifer.

Mount Albion Cemetery

Gilbert De La Matyr, (1825–1892), Methodist Episcopal Church elder who served a single term as U.S. Representative from Indiana after the Civil War.

New Richmond, Indiana

In 1985, New Richmond was turned into Hickory, Indiana for the filming of the motion picture Hoosiers, starring Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, and Dennis Hopper.

Otterbein, Indiana

Richard Atha, OHS Graduate, NBA player, member Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame

Paddy Baumann

Baumann died in Indianapolis, Indiana at age 83 and is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery.

Parke County, Indiana

The architects for this building were Thomas J. Tolan and his son Brentwood of Fort Wayne; they designed seven Indiana courthouses, as well as several in Ohio, Iowa, Illinois and Tennessee.

PrimeCo

The Illinois-Indiana PrimeCo territories were purchased by Clarity Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm in 2001, who successfully improved the company's operations and later sold it to U.S. Cellular.

Ratzinger Foundation

Reverend Professor Brian E. Daley, S.J., an American Jesuit who is Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana.

Rich Field

He was born in Indiana, and had been instructed to fly by Lt. Frank P. Lahm in May 1913, then crashed his Wright Model C into Manila Bay on November 14, 1913, the tenth U.S. pilot to die in a flying accident.

Robert d'Escourt Atkinson

Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (born April 11, 1898, Rhayader, Wales – died October 28, 1982, Bloomington, Indiana) was a British astronomer, physicist and inventor.

Royal Masonic School for Boys

Both schools were commonly used for films (such as Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Lucky Jim (twice), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and numerous TV shows) from the 1950s until recently.

Shanghai Foreign Language School

The so-called "going out" means that a number of students are provided with opportunities to study abroad as exchange students at locations like Sukura Nobirin College in Japan, Christina College in Hamburg, Germany, La Salle College, Hong Kong, and The Culver Academies, in Indiana US.

Shelli Yoder

She was the Democratic Party nominee for the United States House of Representatives in Indiana's 9th congressional district in the 2012 race and is currently a member of the County Council for Monroe County, Indiana.

Steve Alford

In his senior year, the Alford-led 1986-87 Hoosiers won Indiana's fifth national championship against Syracuse in the 1987 NCAA tournament.

Tri-state area

Three other prominent areas that have been labeled tri-state areas are the Cincinnati tri-state area, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; the Pittsburgh tri-state area, covering parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; and the Chicago tri-state area, also known as Chicagoland, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Vigo County, Indiana

Holmes is part of Indiana's 8th congressional district, which is held by Republican Larry Bucshon.

WFGA

Although its city of license is in Ohio, WFGA now primarily concentrates on serving the Auburn and Garrett area in northeastern Indiana, where its signal is much stronger than in Fort Wayne.

William A. Koch

With so many projects going - seemingly all at once - Bill Koch discovered in the late 1950s that Indiana's segment of Interstate 64 was going to run from Vincennes to New Albany.

WSSM

WZOW, a radio station licensed to serve Goshen, Indiana, United States, which held the call sign WSSM from 2011 to 2013