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History of Indiana

Did you know ...

• the 1820 Indiana Supreme Court decision in the case of Polly v. Lasselle freed all slaves in the U.S. state of Indiana?
• the U.S. Federal Government's largest provider of HIV/AIDS services, the Ryan White Care Act, is named after Ryan White, a teenager who was expelled from his Indiana middle school in 1985 for having AIDS?
• the Indiana-based Upland Brewing Company provided beer bottles and props to lend Indiana authenticity to the "Boys' Club" episode of Parks and Recreation?
• the Potawatomi, a tribe of Native Americans, were evicted from land near Indiana’s Yellow River less than six years after tribal chiefs signed a treaty granting them that land in perpetuity?
• only eight of the planned 296 miles of the Indiana Central Canal were built, due to Indiana being bankrupted by the Panic of 1837?
• half the pioneers who settled in northwestern Indiana used the Michigan Road?
• despite its federal mandate to provide only intercity rail service, Amtrak operated the Calumet commuter train between Chicago, Illinois and the Indiana suburb of Valparaiso from 1979 to 1991?
• during the term of Governor of Indiana Isaac P. Gray, a dispute arose that led the entire Indiana General Assembly to break into a fist fight, with Democrats and Republicans threatening to kill each other?
• former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Isaac Blackford (pictured) described the court's decisions in an eight-volume work that earned him the nickname "Indiana Blackstone"?
• the Battle of Pogue's Run was done to prevent Democrats from rising against the American Civil War in Indiana?
• the Cummins Corporate Office Building in Columbus, Indiana, is constructed on an old railroad yard?
• the establishment of Camp Joe Holt, the first significant act to keep Kentucky from fully seceding to the Confederate States of America, had to be done in Indiana?
• the power of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana was once so great its Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson claimed "I am the law in Indiana"?
• the state of Indiana in 1972 set aside 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of Hoosier National Forest just for the purpose of reintroducing wild turkey to the Hoosier state?
• two-thirds of pioneers arriving in Indiana from Louisville] used the Buffalo Trace to settle the state?
• the efforts of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources have restored Indiana's total forestland acreage to more than double its turn-of-the-20th-century level?
• the architects of the Florida Tropical House (pictured), located in Beverly Shores, Indiana designed the house with Florida residents in mind?
• the Illiana Expressway is a proposed Interstate-standard tollway connecting northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana?
• the 1913 Street Car Strike in Indianapolis, Indiana, lasted eight days and left four dead and hundreds injured?
• the Kintner-Withers House's Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana?
• despite having only $300,000 to the incumbent's $4 million in campaign funds, Greg Ballard won the 2007 mayoral election in Indianapolis, one of the biggest electoral upsets in Indiana history?
• after Tony Kiritsis was declared "not guilty by reason of insanity" in 1977, Indiana legislators amended the law to provide for verdicts of "guilty but mentally ill" and "not responsible by reason of insanity"?
• Indiana's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning?
• Indiana's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?
• Tin Pan Alley song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" by Paul Dresser, Indiana's state song, became its first official state symbol in 1913?
• chocolataires, popular around the late 19th century, were thrown as a novel alternative to tea parties—once even for a kindergarten fundraiser in Indiana, USA?
• Indiana's Eel River once served as informal boundary between the lands of the Potawatomi people in the north and Miami people in the south?
• Indiana state governor Frank O'Bannon stayed at Fort Harrison State Park while the governor's mansion was being made handicapped-accessible?
• abolitionist George Bradburn was with Frederick Douglass on an 1843 anti-slavery lecture tour in Indiana, when they were attacked?
• Kentucky governor William S. Taylor was implicated in the assassination of William Goebel, his political rival, and fled to Indiana to avoid indictment?
• Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully?
• Clark State Forest was Indiana's largest Civilian Conservation Corps cantonment?
• Hardy Lake is Indiana's smallest reservoir at 741 acres of surface area?
• Stream Cliff Farm is the oldest herb farm in Indiana?
• sugar cream pie is being considered to become the official state pie of Indiana, USA?
• a Confederate scouting party entered Indiana in June 1863 dressed as an Union army patrol searching for deserters?
• Short's goldenrod (pictured), one of the world's rarest plants, grows only in parts of Kentucky and Indiana?
• Paula Cooper, sentenced to death at age 15, had her sentence commuted in 1989 after an international uproar ensued and Pope John Paul II appealed to the Governor of Indiana for leniency?
• slavery existed in Indiana as late as 1840, even though Indiana was always a free state above the Mason-Dixon line, and slavery had been outlawed in the region due to the Northwest Ordinance in 1787?
• Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial (pictured) marks where Abraham Lincoln lived in Indiana, and where his sister and birth mother died?
• Marcus Schrenker, after committing pseudocide, may face charges from the Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as Indiana, Alabama, and Florida law enforcement?
• 9 of Indiana's 12 native bat species have been observed in the National Natural Landmark Wyandotte Caves?