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unusual facts about Wabash


Wabash, Indiana

Gus Dorais - American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball


Bayless W. Hanna

He lost to fellow Wabash alum and Crawfordsville lawyer Robert B. F. Peirce having only earned 43% of the vote to Peirce's 49%.

Chicago Business College

The Chicago Business College (founded as the Gondering and Virden Business College in 1888) was a for-profit business school located on Wabash Avenue in downtown Chicago, Illinois.

Christian Vegetarian Association

The Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA) was founded in 1999 by Nathan Braun and Stephen H. Webb, Professor of Religion at Wabash College.

City of Kansas City

General Omar Bradley, a native Missourian who as a young man had worked on the Wabash, christened the new train.

Doyle Dykes

Some of his best-known works and interpretations are "Wabash Canonball", "Country Fried Pickin", "Tricky Pickin", "Chet Stuff", "Be Still", "Amazing Grace" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".

Edith Pfau

Throughout her career, Pfau won numerous awards for her work including first prize in oils from the Indiana College Art Exhibit (1935), first prize in painting at the Wabash Valley Art Exhibition held at Swope Art Museum (1946), several awards from the national Art for Religion exhibits (1959 and 1969).

Frank Gould

Frank M. Gould, 11th head college football coach for the Wabash College Little Giants

George Rogers Clark Flag

It is worth noting, however, that whereas Colonel Clark had offered a red (war) or white (peace) belt to Indians in Cahokia, Captain Helm presented the Wabash Indians with a red or green belt.

Goshen Road

The original Goshen Road turned north toward modern Opdyke, following the Big Muddy/Wabash Divide.

Harmony, Pennsylvania

They formally established the Harmony Society in 1805 and lived in Pennsylvania for about 10 years before selling the Harmony property in 1814 to Abraham Ziegler, a Mennonite, and moving west to Indiana Territory, where they built the town of Harmony on the Wabash River (now New Harmony, Indiana).

Hoosier Salon

The Salon has expanded to include three permanent gallery spaces in Indiana, located in Indianapolis, New Harmony and Wabash.

Jacob Zimmerman

From 1860 until 1903, Zimmerman lived near the Grand Rapids Dam on the Hinde family farm in Wabash County Illinois.

Jimmy Daywalt

Born in Wabash, Indiana, he drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1950, 1953–1957, 1959, and 1961–1962 seasons with 20 starts.

Kent Automatic Garages

The Wabash-Harrison Garage was built in connection with the $15,000,000 Carew Tower in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Lewis Salter

He took leave from Wabash from 1958 to 1960 to help establish a research program in theoretical physics at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia.

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.

Nicholas Dinkel

Dinkel's team achieved easy victories over Hillsdale, Wabash and Rush Medical, but struggled to a 0-1-1 mark in a home-and-home series with Albion, thus finishing the year at 3-1-1.

Ouiatenon

On 9 March 1791, U.S. Secretary of War Henry Knox issued orders from President George Washington to Brigadier General Charles Scott of Kentucky to lead a punitive expedition against the Wea settlements in the Wabash Valley.

Reliance Building

The Reliance Building is also part of the Loop Retail Historic District, a collection of over one hundred buildings that reflects the growth of State and Wabash Streets as the central retail district of Chicago.

Southwestern Indiana

1 After Ohio, Patoka, Wabash, and White Rivers or
six including the Little Wabash, and Embarras Rivers
all of which join along the boundaries Knox, Gibson
or Posey Counties.

State Line City, Indiana

For many years the famous Wabash Cannonball ran on the line (then owned by the Wabash Railway), passing through town twice a day on its route from St. Louis to Detroit and back.

Vigo County Home for Dependent Children

Vigo County Home for Dependent Children, also known as Glenn Home, is a historic building at 7140 Wabash Avenue east of Terre Haute in Lost Creek Township, Indiana.

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.

Wabash Blues

Wabash Blues, with words by Dave Ringle and music by Fred Meinken, was the first success for pianist, saxophonist and song composer Isham Jones (1894-1956).

Wabash Valley Seismic Zone

The concern of seismologists Douglas Wiens and Michael E. Wysession of Washington University in St. Louis, is that the New Madrid Fault may be becoming less active, while activity on the Wabash Fault could be increasing.

Westlock, Alberta

The main employers in town include the hotels and inns that cater to oilpatch workers, the farm implement dealerships, and some small manufacturing such as Wabash Manufacturing - Truck Trailers, and a Lafarge cement plant.


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