Evansville's West Side Nut Club fall festival is the 2nd largest street festival in the nation, only 2nd to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Evansville Fall Festival - Home
Evansville Fall Festival - Home
i just googled this, that's some crazy stuff, I looked at images, but I'm not convinced that they were all real.Eight Ancient Armor-Clad Giants in Walkerton, Indiana? - JasonColavito.com
Carl Litchfield of Teegarden, and Jesse Lichtfield, who lives just north of Teegarden, recently excavated a mound on the farm of Grove Vosburg, some three miles north of Walkerton.
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Heritage House Museum | Town of Walkerton
No one mentioned New Harmony.
In the movie "Hoosiers", in one of the basketball scenes you can see the name of the opponents on the scoreboard. Oolitic, however you pronounce it, is a real town of about 1200 people.
The first professional baseball game was played in Fort Wayne in 1871.
The Detroit Pistons were originally the Zollner Pistons, and played in the gym of North Side High School until the Memorial Coliseum was built.
I thought that a section of the ferris wheel from the Chicago World's Fair was being used as a bridge somewhere in north west Indiana, but the only info I can find on it's fate is that it was transported to St. Louis and later demolished by dynamite, so maybe that's not true.
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I had a coworker tell me once that there was a POW camp housing German POWS close the Charlestown ammo plant? This true?
Teft is to the south. The hamlet where the bridge is is called Dunn's Bridge. Very nice people there. My aunt and uncle, Dick and Shirley Morgan, used to live in the next to last house on the east drive. I miss it there. I miss Uncle Dick, too. Hope to visit Aunt Shirley soon.
The trailer to this- Welcome To The Kankakee Marsh was very interesting. Thanks for posting it