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96 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.

Alma Eldredge

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

Armando Frigo

Armando Frigo (Born: Clinton, Indiana on August 5, 1917. Died: September, 1943) was a former Italian-American soccer player.

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.

Brett Dietz

He was the quarterbacks coach for Cascade High School in Clayton, Indiana for the 2006 season.

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 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.

Cassie Hack

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

Ceylon, Indiana

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

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.

Chuck Bodak

Bodak was born June 3, 1916 in Gary, Indiana where his involvement in boxing began circa 1929 at Schonfield’s Athletic Club.

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.

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

Dave Crooks

In May 2011 Dave Crooks announced his candidacy to represent Indiana's 8th Congressional District in the United States Congress.

Dona Massin

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

Elijah Martindale

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

Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin

She taught in anthropology, history, and folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington, beginning in the fall of 1943.

Ernest O. Holland

1874, in Bennington, Switzerland County, Indiana, the son of Philip Calphy Holland and Ann Atlanta Chittenden Holland.

Ervin

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

Ezra P. Savage

Savage was born in Connersville, Indiana, but his parents moved to Iowa shortly after his birth.

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.

Franciscan St Anthony Health – Michigan City

Franciscan St Anthony Health – Michigan City is a hospital located in Michigan City, Indiana.

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.

Galien Township, Michigan

Indiana is to the south, with Olive Township in St. Joseph County to the southeast and Hudson Township in LaPorte County to the southwest.

George Boxley

Finally Boxley headed to Indiana, pausing first at Strawtown with the idea of continuing westward to settle along the Wabash River.

Glen Rosenbaum

Glen Otis Rosenbaum (born June 14, 1936, at Union Mills, Indiana) is a retired American professional baseball player, coach, and front-office official who spent four decades as a member of the Chicago White Sox organization.

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.

IN3

Indiana's 3rd congressional district, a congressional district in the U.S. state of Indiana

Indiana Northeastern Railroad

In northeastern Indiana, the INR operates a line that runs along the southern edge of Steuben County from South Milford east through Ashley, Steubenville and Hamilton to the Ohio state line.

International Disaster Emergency Service

International Disaster Emergency Service (IDES) is a non-profit organization based in Kempton, Indiana, United States that seeks to meet the physical and spiritual needs of people in times of emergency.

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.

Jill Long Thompson

She lives with her husband Don Thompson, a commercial airline pilot, in Marshall County on a farm near Argos, Indiana, where they planted 2,000 trees in two days as a symbol of their love.

Joe L. Hensley

He served one term in the Indiana General Assembly in 1961-1962, representing Jefferson and Scott counties.

John A. Hiigli

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

John C. McKenzie

Born on a farm near Elizabeth, Woodbine Township, Illinois, Mckenzie attended the common schools, and the normal school at Valparaiso, Indiana.

John Eubank

Eubank continued to play in the minor leagues for several years, concluding his career with the Grays from Goshen, Indiana.

Johnnie Davis

Born John Gustave Davis in Brazil, Indiana, into a family of musicians, Davis developed an interest in music during his childhood.

Jordan Township, Warren County, Indiana

The grain grown was either fed to livestock or hauled by wagon to elevators at Ambia, West Lebanon, or Rossville, Illinois.

Karl Schaefer

He is best known for co-creating the 1990s series Eerie, Indiana with José Rivera.

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 Holiday

Lake Holiday, IN, a large, private, unincorporated community (including several subdivisions) near Crawfordsville, Indiana.

Lake Holiday, Indiana

Lake Holiday can be found five miles (8 km) southwest of Crawfordsville, off Indiana State Road 47, between County Roads 400 W & 550 S., near New Market.

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.

Lena Pierpont

In the 1900 census, Lena L. Pierpont was enumerated in Center Township, Delaware County, Indiana, married within the year.

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.

Louis P. Bénézet

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

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).

MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors

Captain Frank Burns – from Fort Wayne, Indiana, born to affluence, accustomed to authority, adept at cardiac massage, but inept at everything else

May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence

Another person was killed in the St. Louis Metropolitan area while the fifth fatality was northwest of Louisville, Kentucky in the Marengo area where 80% of the town was damaged or destroyed.

Michigan Road

From Madison it went north through Ripley and Jefferson counties straight to Napoleon, Indiana, and from there straight through Shelby County, Indiana to Indianapolis.

Mike Lockwood Memorial Show

It was the first of two memorial shows held in memory of Mike Lockwood, who committed suicide at his home in Navarre, Florida on two weeks earlier, with a second show, the Mike Lockwood Memorial Tournament, run by New Breed Wrestling Association in South Bend, Indiana two years later.

Mississinewa River

The dustjacket explains that this county is located “east of Spoon River, west of Winesburg, and slightly north of Raintree County.” Its county seat is the actual rural town of Somerset next to the Mississinewa (River) Reservoir.

National Prohibition Foundation

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

National Register of Historic Places listings in Marion County, Indiana

Center Township is the location of 165 of these properties and districts, including 5 of the National Historic Landmarks; these properties and districts are listed separately.

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.

Pailton Engineering Ltd

As Pailton were growing their product range so was the market reach, due to the opening in 1999 of Pailton Inc. in Valparaiso, Indiana, USA.

Perry Meridian High School

It is one of two public high schools serving grades nine through twelve in the Perry Township, along with Southport High School.

Point Isabel

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

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.

Rolling 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.

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.

Scecina Memorial High School

The namesake of the first diocesan Roman Catholic high school in Indianapolis was born in Vicksburg, Indiana, on September 16, 1910.

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.

St. Vincent Williamsport Hospital

St. Vincent Williamsport Hospital primarily serves residents in Warren and Benton counties, and maintains a 24-hour emergency service as well as surgical facilities, diagnostic services and clinics.

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.

Suedehead

The video clip for this Morrissey single features the singer walking in the streets of Fairmount, Indiana, the boyhood city of James Dean.

Sunnybrook Acres, Fort Wayne

Sunnybrook Acres, Indiana is a neighborhood in the northeast of Fort Wayne, 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.

The Dixie Bee-Liners

The band has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada, playing such prestigious festivals as Merlefest, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Palisade Bluegrass & Roots Festival, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, FloydFest and Bean Blossom.

Thomas J. Cason

Born near Brownsville, Indiana, Cason moved to Boone County with his parents, who settled on a farm near Thorntown in 1832.

Tim Neese

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

Toby Myers

Myers celebrated his 60th birthday in 2009 with a large party in Nashville, Indiana, where he now lives and has a small recording studio.

Tommy Thevenow

Thomas Joseph Thevenow (September 6, 1903 in Madison, Indiana – July 29, 1957 in Madison, Indiana) was a professional baseball player who played shortstop in the Major Leagues from 1924 to 1938.

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.

Tracy L. Gorman

Rev. Gorman has worked at the following churches: First Church of the Nazarene, Decatur, Illinois; Real Life Community Church, Portage, Indiana; Southside Church of the Nazarene, Richmond, Virginia; First Church of the Nazarene, Washington, Pennsylvania; New Life Church, Newburgh, Indiana; and Southside Church of the Nazarene, Muncie, Indiana.

Triton Junior–Senior High School

The Triton School Corporation, formed in 1963 to consolidate the schools of Bourbon, Etna Green, and Tippecanoe, Indiana, is located in east central Marshall County, Indiana.

Wayne Schurr

Wayne Allen Schurr (born August 6, 1937 in Garrett, Indiana) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who pitched for the Chicago Cubs in 1964.

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 Hayden English

William Hayden English was born August 27, 1822, in Lexington, Indiana, the only son of Elisha Gale English and his wife, Mahala (Eastin) English.


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.

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.

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."

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

Charles Conn

Charles G. Conn (1844–1931) the 19th century U.S. Representative from Indiana and the namesake of the musical instrument company C.G. Conn Inc.

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.

Columbus Indiana Economic Development Board

The Economic Development Board provided additional funding for “Production of Columbus, Indiana: Different by Design”, a production of WTIU, Indiana University in association with Spellbound Productions, Inc.

Council of Conservative Citizens

The CofCC continues protesting speaking engagements by Morris Dees in Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana, and South Carolina, declaring him to be a threat to free speech and a fraud.

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.

Fairchild AC-119

The AC-119Gs were placed in the 71st Special Operations Squadron which was formed from the activated 71st Troop Carrier Squadron, of the Air Force Reserves located in Columbus, Indiana.

Fort Wayne Freedom

He had worked previously as an assistant coach at the University of St. Francis, an NAIA institution, and NCAA Division II Hillsdale College in Michigan.

Frank Cignetti

Frank Cignetti, Sr. (born 1937), American football player and coach, head coach at West Virginia University (1976–1979) and Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1986–2005)

Heinkel He 219

The aircraft was flown to Freeman Field, Indiana for flight testing along with a second of the three He 219s: a He 219 A-5 prototype, Werknummer 290060 and given the foreign equipment number FE-612.

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.

Indiana Limestone

New Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York, opened in 2009, extensively uses Indiana limestone paneling on its exterior facade.

Jackson Bailey

Bailey was also honored with Honorary doctorate degrees from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Wabash College in Indiana, the College of Wooster in Ohio, and Waseda University in Japan.

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.

John Boehne

John W. Boehne (1856–1946), U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1909 to 1913

Johnston Lykins

He became involved with the work being performed among the area's American Indian tribes by Isaac McCoy, joining the McCoy mission to the Wea peoples in northern Indiana in 1819.

Joyful Noise

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

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.

Kirkwood Observatory

It is named for Daniel Kirkwood (1814 - 1895) an astronomer and professor of mathematics at Indiana University who discovered the divisions of the asteroid belt known as the Kirkwood Gaps.

KLAF

Purdue University Airport, a public-use airport in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States

Lubin Manufacturing Company

Aided by French-born writer and poet Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, who served as the studio's publicity manager, in 1910 Siegmund Lubin built a state of the art studio on the corner of Indiana avenue and Twentieth Street in Philadelphia that became known as "Lubinville."

Margaret Hillis

Margaret Hillis was an older sister to Elwood "Bud" Hillis, who served as Representative to the United States Congress from Kokomo, Indiana for eight terms (1971–1987).

Mark W. Moffett

He has been compared to Jacques Cousteau and Jane Goodall, and National Geographic has called him “the Indiana Jones of Entomology”.

Merrillville, Indiana

The development is designated an Indiana Certified Technology Park and includes two Purdue University related facilities: Purdue University Calumet's Academic Learning Center and a business incubator/technology center operated by the Purdue Research Foundation.

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 Rosenthal

He was tabbed as Indiana's Gatorade Circle of Champions Player of the Year as a senior.

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.

Mule Armstrong

In 1912, he and fellow players Dicta Johnson and Bee Seldon moved to the French Lick Plutos of Indiana.

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.

Paddy Baumann

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

Paul F. Bradshaw

He is also a priest-vicar of Westminster Abbey, an honorary canon of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana, a member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission.

Phil Pritchett

His high-energy shows around Texas and the surrounding areas are known for the performances of songs such as "Song of the Doorman", "High Tide in the Heartland", "Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones", "Colorado On Trial," "Tougher Than the Rest" and the all-time fan-favorites: "Maria," "Snuff Machine" (written by ex-Suburbans' member Wes Cunningham), "Antarctica U.S.A." (written by Dewitt now of the Residudes), and "Drink When I Think" and "Rolling" (both co-written with Chip Evans).

Pipe Creek

Pipe Creek Sinkhole (a paleontological site in Grant County, Indiana)

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.

Scott M. Sipprelle

Sipprelle was criticized later in January for his contribution to the congressional campaigns of Blue Dog Democrats Allen Boyd of Florida, Charlie Melancon of Louisiana, Heath Shuler of North Carolina, Baron Hill of Indiana, and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of South Dakota.

Southern Wesleyan University

Ken Schenck, Dean of Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University

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.

WFBM

WNDE, an AM radio station (1260 kHz) licensed to serve Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, which held the call sign WFBM from 1924 to 1973

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.

WQKC

WAYI, a radio station (93.9 FM) licensed to serve Sellersburg, Indiana, which held the call sign WQKC from 1991 to 2008

WSSM

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