Gennett Walk of Fame
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Gennett Records, an offshoot of the Starr Piano Company of Richmond, Indiana, recorded many of the jazz greats in the late 1910s and 1920s. The......
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Minnetrista's 40-acre campus includes a modern museum facility and historic homes in addition to a nature area, children’s play spaces and beautiful......
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The Overbeck Pottery Museum in Cambridge, Indiana, houses a collection of pottery and figurines made by the six Overbeck sisters. They started making......
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This beautiful red-brick building has been the home of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church since 1868. [1] It is the oldest Black......
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Built in 1901, the Cincinnati, Richmond, & Muncie Depot is a symbol of the key role of rail transportation in the area’s development. Before......
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Most of the railroads along the Great American Rail-Trail are literal ones. But perhaps the most important railroad in America during the early to......
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Now a guest house and retreat center for Earlham College’s School of Religion, this Italianate home was built by Thomas and Mary Birdsall in 1859.......
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Along Main Street in Gas City, Indiana, the street signs on each corner—those flat metal rectangles bearing names and sometimes block numbers—do not......
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In front of the J. Wood Wilson House—now better known as Hostess House, a restaurant, event venue and gift shop—is a state historical marker for......
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Losantville, Indiana, is the birthplace of a little-remembered baseball player named Claude Elzy Berry (1880–1974). Berry was a catcher for......
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In 1985, the film crew for the Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper hit “Hoosiers”—a film about Indiana’s long-standing love affair with basketball—stumbled......
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Minnetrista's 40-acre campus includes a modern museum facility and historic homes in addition to a nature area, children’s play spaces and beautiful......
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The plaques around this quarter-mile loop in Muncie’s Heekin Park commemorate “individuals through history that helped fight racism and discrimination......
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Washington, DC 2008
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Free admission and host of brand new exhibits featuring both abundant and endangered species from around the world. Don’t forget to drop by the Zoo’s most famous residents: giant pandas!