Articles: The Cabaret The Cabaret is dedicated to elevating and promoting the cabaret art form. Cabaret is a restaurant or nightclub with a… Read More »The Cabaret Central State Hospital In 1844, the famous reformer Dorothea Dix inspected almshouses and jails near Indianapolis that housed mentally ill paupers. Her subsequent… Read More »Central State Hospital Fires The first recorded fire in Indianapolis occurred on January 17, 1825, when Thomas Carter’s tavern burned to the ground. There… Read More »Fires Indiana State Fair and Fairgrounds On February 14, 1851, the Indiana General Assembly passed legislation for the encouragement of agriculture, which also created the State… Read More »Indiana State Fair and Fairgrounds Larue Carter Hospital LaRue D. Carter Hospital was a psychiatric facility that opened in 1952. It was named for Dr. , who was… Read More »Larue Carter Hospital Lincoln Hospital At a time when existing Indianapolis hospitals barred African American doctors from practice and only admitted African American patients, doctors… Read More »Lincoln Hospital Alan T. Nolan (Jan. 19, 1923-July 27, 2008). Alan T. Nolan was the son of Val and author . He and his family… Read More »Alan T. Nolan George Rawls (June 2, 1928-May 16, 2020). Born in Gainesville, Florida, George Rawls graduated as the valedictorian from Florida A&M University. He… Read More »George Rawls Tenth Pan American Games In 1984, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) urged Indianapolis to bid for the Tenth Pan American Games, a celebration… Read More »Tenth Pan American Games
The Cabaret The Cabaret is dedicated to elevating and promoting the cabaret art form. Cabaret is a restaurant or nightclub with a… Read More »The Cabaret
Central State Hospital In 1844, the famous reformer Dorothea Dix inspected almshouses and jails near Indianapolis that housed mentally ill paupers. Her subsequent… Read More »Central State Hospital
Fires The first recorded fire in Indianapolis occurred on January 17, 1825, when Thomas Carter’s tavern burned to the ground. There… Read More »Fires
Indiana State Fair and Fairgrounds On February 14, 1851, the Indiana General Assembly passed legislation for the encouragement of agriculture, which also created the State… Read More »Indiana State Fair and Fairgrounds
Larue Carter Hospital LaRue D. Carter Hospital was a psychiatric facility that opened in 1952. It was named for Dr. , who was… Read More »Larue Carter Hospital
Lincoln Hospital At a time when existing Indianapolis hospitals barred African American doctors from practice and only admitted African American patients, doctors… Read More »Lincoln Hospital
Alan T. Nolan (Jan. 19, 1923-July 27, 2008). Alan T. Nolan was the son of Val and author . He and his family… Read More »Alan T. Nolan
George Rawls (June 2, 1928-May 16, 2020). Born in Gainesville, Florida, George Rawls graduated as the valedictorian from Florida A&M University. He… Read More »George Rawls
Tenth Pan American Games In 1984, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) urged Indianapolis to bid for the Tenth Pan American Games, a celebration… Read More »Tenth Pan American Games