Articles: 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic From September 1918 to the late spring of 1919, Indianapolis suffered from a viral influenza pandemic that killed nearly 1,000… Read More »1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Indiana Bell Now known as AT&T, Indiana Bell was a telecommunications company that served Indianapolis and most of Indiana since 1920. Although… Read More »Indiana Bell Indiana Gas Company Indiana Gas began as the Indiana Gas & Water Company, which was formed in September 1945 from the natural gas… Read More »Indiana Gas Company Indianapolis Water Company The Water Works Company of Indianapolis, the predecessor to the Indianapolis Water Company, began operation on June 1, 1871. The… Read More »Indianapolis Water Company National Starch and Chemical Company William F. Piel Sr. began the Union Starch Company near the downtown area in 1867 as the city’s first starch… Read More »National Starch and Chemical Company Public Service Indiana Public Service Indiana, one of the state’s largest electric utilities, was headquartered at the in Indianapolis for its first four… Read More »Public Service Indiana Reilly Tar & Chemical Corporation Peter Celestine Reilly came to Indianapolis in 1895 to run a small tar-distilling plant on 737 Miley Avenue in the… Read More »Reilly Tar & Chemical Corporation Religious Press The growth of Indianapolis during the mid-19th century led to the establishment of a thriving newspaper industry in the Hoosier… Read More »Religious Press Stokely-Van Camp Stokely-Van Camp is the successor to Van Camp Packing Company, an Indianapolis packer founded in 1861, and Stokely Brothers and… Read More »Stokely-Van Camp William Burnett Stokely Jr. (Mar. 9, 1900-Oct. 17, 1966). William Burnett Stokely was born in Newport, Tennessee. He was two years younger than the… Read More »William Burnett Stokely Jr.
1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic From September 1918 to the late spring of 1919, Indianapolis suffered from a viral influenza pandemic that killed nearly 1,000… Read More »1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
Indiana Bell Now known as AT&T, Indiana Bell was a telecommunications company that served Indianapolis and most of Indiana since 1920. Although… Read More »Indiana Bell
Indiana Gas Company Indiana Gas began as the Indiana Gas & Water Company, which was formed in September 1945 from the natural gas… Read More »Indiana Gas Company
Indianapolis Water Company The Water Works Company of Indianapolis, the predecessor to the Indianapolis Water Company, began operation on June 1, 1871. The… Read More »Indianapolis Water Company
National Starch and Chemical Company William F. Piel Sr. began the Union Starch Company near the downtown area in 1867 as the city’s first starch… Read More »National Starch and Chemical Company
Public Service Indiana Public Service Indiana, one of the state’s largest electric utilities, was headquartered at the in Indianapolis for its first four… Read More »Public Service Indiana
Reilly Tar & Chemical Corporation Peter Celestine Reilly came to Indianapolis in 1895 to run a small tar-distilling plant on 737 Miley Avenue in the… Read More »Reilly Tar & Chemical Corporation
Religious Press The growth of Indianapolis during the mid-19th century led to the establishment of a thriving newspaper industry in the Hoosier… Read More »Religious Press
Stokely-Van Camp Stokely-Van Camp is the successor to Van Camp Packing Company, an Indianapolis packer founded in 1861, and Stokely Brothers and… Read More »Stokely-Van Camp
William Burnett Stokely Jr. (Mar. 9, 1900-Oct. 17, 1966). William Burnett Stokely was born in Newport, Tennessee. He was two years younger than the… Read More »William Burnett Stokely Jr.