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Bob Jenkins
Bob Jenkins
Bob Jenkins was born on September 4, 1947, in Richmond, Indiana, and grew up in the nearby town of Liberty.… Read More »Bob Jenkins
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Louis Leon Ludlow
Louis Leon Ludlow

(June 24, 1873-Nov. 28, 1950). Louis Leon Ludlow was born in a log cabin in Fayette Co...
Joseph T. Taylor
Joseph T. Taylor

(Feb. 11, 1913-Sept. 23, 2000). Born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, Joseph T. Taylor ea...
John Bartlow Martin
John Bartlow Martin

(Aug. 4, 1915-Jan. 3, 1987). Born in Hamilton, Ohio, John Bartlow Martin and his famil...
Marion Garmel
Marion Garmel

(Oct. 15, 1936-Oct. 22, 2022). Marion Garmel was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, th...
 
Conner Prairie
Founded in 1964, Conner Prairie’s mission was to study and interpret the world of the early 19th-century settler in the… Read More »Conner Prairie
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Clowes Memorial Hall
Clowes Memorial Hall

Built in the early 1960s at a cost of $3.5 million, its construction was made possible...
Avondale Playhouse
Avondale Playhouse

Regarded as one of the Midwest’s top professional summer stock theaters, the Avondal...
Excluded Cities
Excluded Cities

One of the compromises made to secure passage of the legislation was that all incorpor...
Stringtown
Stringtown

Stringtown is a westside neighborhood roughly bounded by Michigan, White River Parkway...
 
Tony Kiritsis Case
Tony Kiritsis Case
The morning of February 8, 1977, Anthony G. “Tony” Kiritsis, 44, a real estate developer, entered the office of Richard… Read More »Tony Kiritsis Case
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Meet The Artists
Meet The Artists

artist-in-residence Anthony Radford put together the first Meet the Artists showcase i...
Tally Sheet Forgeries

The Tally Sheet Forgeries occurred during the 1886 midterm election in Indianapolis. T...
U.S. v. Board of School Commissioners
U.S. v. Board of School Commissioners

United States v. Board of School Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, w...
Persian Gulf War

Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait in August 1990 led to the formation of a U....
 
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department 
Residents of early Indianapolis prided themselves on the orderliness of the community. The peace was kept with a town marshal,… Read More »Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department 
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department 
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A. H. M. Graves Company, Inc.
A. H. M. Graves Company, Inc.

Graves Realtors began in 1924 when A. H. Merriam Graves teamed with fraternity brother...
Steak ‘n Shake
Steak ‘n Shake

A. H. “Gus” Belt of Morrisonville, Illinois founded Steak ‘n Shake in Normal, Il...
Everett I. Brown Company
Everett I. Brown Company

Everett I. Brown was Indianapolis’ largest architectural and engineering firm in the...
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB)
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB)

An environmental and community nonprofit, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful (KIB) engages di...
 
Latvians
Latvians
Earliest records indicate the presence of Latvian residents in North America around 1680. The greatest migration of Latvian individuals to… Read More »Latvians
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Poles

In 1875, Polish immigrants, probably Kashubes from the Pomerania-Baltic coast region o...
Boxing
Boxing

Very little is known about boxing in early- and mid-19th century Indianapolis. Profess...
Macedonians
Macedonians

Wars, political oppression, and economic instability caused Macedonian individuals of ...
Civil War
Civil War

The American Civil War accelerated the transformation of Indianapolis into a major ind...
 
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