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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.

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.

Bailly Nuclear Power Plant

The Bailly Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant project to be located near the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in Porter County, Indiana, United States.

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.

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.

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.

Ceylon, Indiana

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

Charlie Glotzbach

Charles "Charlie" Glotzbach (born June 19, 1938 in Edwardsville, Indiana) is a former ARCA and was a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver.

Cincinnati Celts

Probably the greatest moment in the team's early existence came against a team from Pine Village, Indiana, in 1916.

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.

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.

Darrough

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

Delia Webster

Webster traveled to Madison, Indiana where she was hidden in many city and country locations.

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.

DirectBuy

DirectBuy is a membership buying service headquartered in Merrillville, Indiana.

Eric Schansberg

In 2006, Schansberg ran as a Libertarian and won 4.5% of the votes in Indiana's 9th congressional district race.

Ernest O. Holland

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

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.

Ezra P. Savage

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

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.

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.

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.

George Boxley

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

George T. Goodwin Community Center

individuals, seniors, and children in the Mars Hill and Decatur Township area.

Gladys Hulette

Fort Wayne, Indiana News, Gladys Hulette, September 13, 1917, Page 5.

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.

IN3

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

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'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.

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.

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.

Joseph Baldwin

From 1857 to 1863, Baldwin led normal schools, including the Farmington Male and Female Seminary (Burnettsville, Indiana) and a new institution at Kokomo, 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.

Karl Schaefer

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

L. O. Hartman

He was born in LaGrange, Indiana, Lewis married Helen Marion Nutter 21 December 1922 in Newton, Massachusetts.

Lake Holiday

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Modec

; 2010: Navistar began deliveries of its eStar electric van manufactured in Wakarusa, Indiana under licensed technology from Modec's zero-emissions delivery van.

Montpelier, Ohio

In 1901, the Wabash rail extension from Montpelier to Toledo was completed; in 1907, the railroad moved its shops from Ashley, Indiana to Montpelier.

NEXRAD

The last system of this installation campaign was installed in North Webster, Indiana on August 30, 1997.

Nine Mile, Fort Wayne

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

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.

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

Popcorn

At least six localities (all in the Midwestern United States) claim to be the "Popcorn Capital of the World": Ridgway, Illinois; Valparaiso, Indiana; Van Buren, Indiana; Schaller, Iowa; Marion, Ohio; and North Loup, Nebraska.

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.

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center

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

Richard McKinley

After serving as DFI Director Richard moved to Vincennes, Indiana and helped to found Security Bank and Trust which opened on January 3, 1938 and served as the institution's first President until January 1949 at which time he was elected chairman of the board of directors.

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 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.

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.

Rummagers League

The organization was founded in Terre Haute, Indiana in November 1919 as the Industrial Communists.

Rustle the Leaf

opened a small production studio/office in downtown Anderson, Indiana, on the third floor of the historic Union Building, located at the corner of Meridian and West 11th Street.

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.

Springfield Township, LaPorte County, Indiana

Communities in the township include the incorporated town of Michiana Shores and the unincorporated community of Springville.

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.

Stephen S. Harding

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

Success Automobile Manufacturing Company

So, he took several competitors to court on this matter; among them the Economy Motor Buggy Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the W. H. Kiblinger Company in Auburn, Indiana (a predecessor of the Auburn Automobile Company).

Suedehead

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

Supreme Court of Indiana

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.

The Opposite of Sex

Teenager Dedee Truitt (Ricci) runs away from home after her stepfather's funeral and moves in with her half-brother Bill (Donovan), a gay teacher in a conservative, suburban community in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.

Thomas E. McCall

McCall joined the Army from Veedersburg, Indiana, and by January 22, 1944 was serving as a Staff Sergeant in Company F, 143rd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division.

Thomas F. Ricks House

Thomas F. Ricks (1855–1908) was born in Eureka, California, the son of 49-er Caspar S. Ricks (November 10, 1821 Rome, Indiana - June 21, 1888 San Francisco) who built many business and residential blocks in Eureka and Adaline A. Fouts of Clark County, Indiana who also owned Eureka property independent from that of her husband.

Thomas J. Cason

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Vevay Park, Illinois

Grant Pickett, who operated a pumping station for the railroad, renamed the town after his former home of Vevay, 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.

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.

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.

Bill Shirk

Shirk was the Station Manager, Sales Manager, Program Director, Production Manager and Afternoon Disc Jockey on WERK Radio, in Muncie, Indiana from 1968 to 1972.

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 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.

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.

Franciscan St Anthony Health – Michigan City

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

Francisville, Kentucky

Interstate 275, the beltway around Cincinnati, forms the southern edge of the CDP, with the community of Hebron to the south of I-275.

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)

Freeway service patrol

In some states, the program name is the generic term, as with California's Freeway Service Patrol; in others, the program has an individualized name, as with Indiana's Hoosier Helper program.

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

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.

Indiana Democratic Party

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

Indiana Limestone

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

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.

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 Banks

Jim Banks (born 1979), American politician in the Indiana Senate

John Boehne

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

John Mutz

Mutz has had a long business career including the management of a large group of Burger Chef restaurants and serving as president of PSI Energy, Indiana's largest utility.

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.

Keith Wenning

Ball State’s season opener under new head coach Pete Lembo was an in-state cross conference match versus the Big Ten’s Indiana University at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on September 3.

Ken Williams

Kenneth P. Williams (1887–?), professor of mathematics at Indiana University

Leavenworth, Indiana

His son Zebulon, named after the boy's uncle in Indiana, became a famous riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River and was a friend of Mark Twain before Twain became a writer.

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”.

McNicholas Quadruplets

Lindsay McNicholas is the wife of Adam Krug, Assistant Coach of the Indiana Ice, and her brother in law is Torey Krug who plays for the Boston Bruins.

Mike Rosenthal

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

Mikhail Turovsky

Mikhail Turovsky's work is represented in permanent collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Yad Vashem Memorial Art Museum in Jerusalem, the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in New York, and the Notre Dame University Art Museum in Indiana, as well as many public and private collections.

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

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.

Ruffin Pleasant

Pleasant was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1916, which renominated Woodrow Wilson for president and Thomas Marshall of Indiana for vice president.

Saffo the Greek

In July 1914, he was in attendance with other figures of the Levee including John Torrio (representing Jim Colosimo), John Jordan, Jackie Adler and Harry Hopkins at Port Lamp Burke's roadhouse near Cedar Creek (Indiana) several hours after gunman Roxie Vanilli, a cousin of Torrio whom he had brought in from New York, had shot and killed Chicago detective Sgt. Stanley Birns.

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.

Songs for Older Women

Songs for Older Women is the first live album by progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee, recorded over a two-night stand in Indiana in November 1998 and released in 1999.

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.

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.

Vallonia, Indiana

Vallonia is an unincorporated community in Driftwood Township, Jackson County, Indiana, and as an 18th-century French settlement and 19th-century American frontier fortification known as Fort Vallonia.

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

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.

WMYJ

WDCK, a radio station (88.9 FM) licensed to serve Oolitic, Indiana, which held the call signs WMYJ or WMYJ-FM from 2005 to 2013

WQKC

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