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unusual facts about Evansville, IN–KY Metropolitan Statistical Area



Aces Brass

The ensemble performs at all Evansville men's basketball games hosted at Roberts Municipal Stadium.

Adeline Glasheen

Born Adeline Erlbacher in 1920 in Evansville, Indiana, her parents were Irene Tenney Jenner and Frederick Erlbacher.

Allentown Portland Cement Company

The firm was founded in 1906 and completed its first plant in Evansville, Pennsylvania, in 1910.

Bosse Field

It was named in honor of Benjamin Bosse, mayor of Evansville from 1914 to 1922, who bought Garvin Park and helped to build the stadium.

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.

Chic Anderson

A native of Evansville, Indiana, Anderson got his start in horse racing in 1951, working part-time in the mutuel department at Dade Park (now Ellis Park Racecourse) in nearby Henderson, Kentucky.

D. Omer Seamon

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

Don Ahn

His work is in private and public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Dayton Art Museum, Ohio, and the Evansville Museum, Indiana.

E. S. Babcock

Babcock was raised in Evansville, Indiana, and graduated from Evansville High School.

Evansville Regional Airport

On December 13, 1977, Douglas C-53 N51071 of National Jet Services crashed on take-off from Evansville on a non-scheduled passenger flight to Nashville Metropolitan Airport, Tennessee.

Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

The old Central Library in downtown Evansville was an Art Deco building.

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.

Fleetwood Area School District

The district serves students in the community of Fleetwood as well as Richmond Township (Walnuttown, Richmond, Moselm Springs, and Virginville) to the north and Maidencreek Township (Blandon, Maidencreek, Evansville, Molltown and Kirbyville) to the south.

Four Freedoms Monument

In Evansville, Indiana there is another Four Freedoms monument designed by Rupert Condict built in 1976, four Indiana Limestone columns.

Francis Raymond Shea

Francis Raymond Shea served as the third Roman Catholic Bishop of Evansville, Indiana from 1969 to 1989.

Francis Shea

Francis Raymond Shea (1913–1994), Roman Catholic Bishop of Evansville, Indiana, 1969–1989

Harry P. Dees

Harry Dees began his legal career in 1935 as an attorney working for Isidor N. Kahn in Evansville, Indiana.

Illinois Route 141

Illinois 141 serves as a connector between southeastern Illinois and the greater Evansville, Indiana area.

Indiana gubernatorial election, 2004

The first was held on September 28, 2004 at Franklin College with the candidates clashing over the state's economy, prescription drugs and the extension of Interstate 69 from Indianapolis to Evansville.

Jerry Sloan

He played college basketball under Evansville coach Arad McCutchan even as he worked part-time making refrigerators for Whirlpool.

Jerry Wilkerson

His works are represented in several public collections including the St. Louis Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, the Tucson Museum of Art, and the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science in Evansville, Indiana.

John W. Boehne

Born in Scott Township, Indiana, Boehne attended the district schools, the German parochial school of the Lutheran Church, and Evansville Business College.

KTVE

However, J. B. Fuqua, who owned KTVE at the time, wanted to get that station in line with WTVW in Evansville, Indiana and KTHI (now KVLY-TV) in Fargo, North Dakota, both of which were ABC affiliates he had just purchased.

Louis P. Bénézet

From 1916 to 1924 Bénézet was head of colleges in Evansville, Indiana and, from 1924 to 1938, in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Main Event Championship Wrestling

Prior to this inception, MECW events spanned from Vincennes to Marion, Lafayette, and Evansville, Indiana, as well as Nashville, Kingsport and various other cities in Tennessee.

August 14, 2010, which featured Former NWA/TNA Tag Team Champion, Chase Stevens vs Former WWE Superstar, 'Psycho' Sid Vicious in Evansville, IN.

Minnesota State Highway 79

State Highway 79 serves as an east–west route in west-central Minnesota between Elbow Lake and Evansville.

Mino, Kagawa

Mino had a sister city relationship with Evansville (Indiana), Unadilla (New York State), Sanyuan County in the city of Xianyang (Shaanxi China) and Florenville (Belgium).

New Madrid Seismic Zone

The quake damaged virtually all buildings in Charleston, creating sand volcanoes by the city, cracked a pier on the Cairo Rail Bridge and toppled chimneys in St. Louis, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, Gadsden, Alabama and Evansville, Indiana.

Racine Belles

Although the 1992 film A League of Their Own features the Racine Belles, all of the characters playing on the team were fictional, and ballpark scenes were filmed in Evansville, Indiana.

Raymond Geuss

Raymond Geuss (born 1946 in Evansville, Indiana, United States), a Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy.

Roberts Stadium

Roberts Municipal Stadium, an defunct indoor arena located in Evansville, Indiana.

Russell Lloyd

Russell G. Lloyd, Jr. (born 1950), American politician, mayor of Evansville, 2000–2004, son of Russell G. Lloyd, Sr.

Russell G. Lloyd, Sr. (1932–1980), American politician, mayor of Evansville, 1972–1980

Seth Galloway

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

St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center

Mary's Medical Center and Warrick Hospital are a dual campus Healthcare and Trauma-Care Institution with its main campus located on the east side of Evansville, Indiana and the other located in Boonville, Indiana in Warrick County.

St. Vincent's Day Care

Vincent's Day Care Center', of Evansville, Indiana is a non-for-profit agency under the sponsorship of the Daughter’s of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, and has a long history of service to families, parents, children and to the civic community, that dates back to the time of World War I. At that time, 1918, women were called upon to assume roles in industry to replace men who had been called to military service.

Stephen G. Jennings

Officer T Siebert, an off-duty Evansville Police officer, observed a White 2006 Toyota Avalon, Indiana license UE 1, driving erratically eastbound on the Lloyd Expressway.

Surf Ninjas

The studio New Line Cinema released Surf Ninjas two weeks earlier than its commercial release date in Evansville, Indiana and Lubbock, Texas as part of a test of regional markets.

Thomas Enright

He, along with Corporal James Bethel Gresham of Evansville, Indiana, and Private Merle David Hay of Glidden, Iowa, all serving in Company F, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division (“The Big Red One”), were the first Americans to die in combat during the First World War when on November 3, 1917, German troops trench raided their position near the village of Bathelémont les Bauzemont in the Lorraine (region), east of Nancy.

Toni Carr

She is married to Dan Carr, an announcer for the Naptown Roller Girls as well as Demolition City Roller Derby in Evansville, IN.

U.S. Route 460

Between St. Louis and Frankfort, it was a major highway in the pre-Interstate era, passing through Evansville, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky.

Wabash and Erie Canal

The canal known as the Wabash & Erie in the 1850s and thereafter, was actually a combination of four canals: the Miami and Erie Canal from the Maumee River near Toledo, Ohio to Junction, Ohio, the original Wabash and Erie Canal from Junction to Terre Haute, Indiana, the Cross Cut Canal from Terre Haute, Indiana to Worthington, Indiana (Point Commerce), and the Central Canal from Worthington to Evansville, Indiana.

West Side Nut Club Fall Festival

Evansville's West Side Nut Club Fall Festival is held the first full week of every October on Franklin Street in Evansville, Indiana by Evansville's West Side Nut Club.

WTHI-DT2

The move came after Nexstar was stripped of its Fox affiliations for WTVW in Evansville, WFFT-TV in Fort Wayne and KSFX-TV in Springfield, Missouri following a dispute between Nexstar and Fox during affiliation renewal negotiations over the amount of local stations' retransmission consent fees that Fox demanded the stations share with the network.

WTSN

WYYW-CD, a television station (channel 36) licensed to serve Evansville, Indiana, United States, which held the call signs WTSN-LP, WTSN-LD, or WTSN-CD from 2009 to 2012

Zesto Drive-In

Among the cities where locally owned Zestos currently operate include Evansville, Indiana; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Seattle, Washington; Atlanta, Georgia; Columbia, South Carolina; Fremont, Nebraska; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Omaha, Nebraska (where it operates across from Rosenblatt Stadium, former home of the College World Series).


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