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
Flooding and Flood Control Because flood-producing precipitation is highly variable, floods may occur on a section of a single stream or many streams over… Read More »Flooding and Flood Control
Flora And Fauna The biological landscape of Indianapolis is a product of both postglacial climatic change and human activity, set in the varied… Read More »Flora And Fauna
Football College Butler and DePauw played the state’s first intercollegiate game at the old 7th Street Baseball Grounds in Indianapolis in… Read More »Football
Foundations And Trusts Several types of foundations and trust exist in Indianapolis: community, private, conversion, and corporate. Together, these grant makers support a… Read More »Foundations And Trusts
Freethought Freethought aims to approach all matters objectively and rationally, although this definition oversimplifies. Principally antireligious, thus its atheistic and humanistic… Read More »Freethought
Fresh Air Schools Fresh Air Schools (FAS), or open-air schools, were initiatives of the Indiana State Board of Health, the Indiana Society for… Read More »Fresh Air Schools
Fusion Movement The Fusion Movement was a political coalition that evolved into the Indiana . The Kansas-Nebraska dispute of 1854 triggered an… Read More »Fusion Movement
Gallahue Plan In an attempt to help alleviate the shortage of nurses following World War II, Edward E. Gallahue, president of American… Read More »Gallahue Plan
Gatling Gun The Gatling Gun was an early rapid-firing weapon, or machine gun, invented by . Gatling was a physician and real… Read More »Gatling Gun
