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Leroy Burney

Leroy Burney was responsible for major advances in environmental health, chronic disease, aging, education, research, and international health. Born on… Read More »

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Margaret Moore Post

(Aug. 16, 1909-Oct. 31, 1987). Born Margaret Stephenson in Plainfield, Indiana, Post e...

Charles Werner

(March 23 1909-July 1, 1997). Born in 1909 in Marshfield, Wisconsin, Charles Werner at...

Lawrence S. (Bo) Connor

(Aug. 31, 1925-Feb. 28, 2014). A lifelong Indianapolis resident, Connor graduated from...

Mary Antonia (Mari) Hulman George

(Dec. 26, 1934-Nov. 3, 2018). Businesswoman, racecar team owner, and philanthropist, M...

PLACES

White Castle #3

Indianapolis White Castle #3 opened in 1927. Located at 660 Fort Wayne Avenue, the 600-square-foot square restaurant was a simple… Read More »

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Shortridge High School

Although Indianapolis was served by several private academies in the first half of the...

Monument Circle

The circular street in the center of Mile Square is one of the city’s shortest yet m...

Ben Davis

Ben Davis is located about six miles west of . The community is bounded by Rockville R...

Indiana Women’s Prison

The Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls was founded in 1869 in Indiana...

EVENTS

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War divided Indianapolis as no conflict had since the Civil War. The city experienced its first antiwar demonstrations… Read More »

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Tally Sheet Forgeries

The Tally Sheet Forgeries occurred during the 1886 midterm election in Indianapolis. T...

Talbot Street Art Fair

Originally held on Mother’s Day weekend in 1956, a group of students from the initia...

Black Hawk War

Black Hawk, chief of the Sac Indians, called Ma-ka-tai-she-kia-kiak by his people, rej...

Visit of Chinese Prince Pu Lun

In May 1904, Prince Pu Lun, twice rumored to be heir to the Manchu throne, visited Ind...

ORGANIZATIONS

Westview Hospital

Until the 1970s, local medical doctors did not accept osteopathic methods of treatment using muscle and skeletal manipulation, and osteopaths… Read More »

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Historic Urban Neighborhoods of Indianapolis

In 1980, urban activists from several of Indianapolis’s early historic districts cre...

Propylaeum

The term Propylaeum refers to two buildings and an organization. A committee of seven ...

Center for Leadership Development

Indianapolis community leaders in education, philanthropy, and business who were inter...

Rock Island Refining Corporation

In 1940, Oklahoma and Kansas businessmen L. E. Kincannon, L. E. Winkler, and L. B. Sim...

TOPICS

Mortality And Morbidity

The Indianapolis Board of Health began publishing annual health statistics, including statistics on death and disease, in the 1890s. Such… Read More »

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