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Brown County State Park
Opened in 1929, Brown County State Park is the largest of Indiana’s state parks. Known for many decades as the “Little Smokies” because of the area’s resemblance to the Great Smoky Mountains, the park…
Mounds State Park
From Native American mounds to merry-go-rounds, Mounds State Park attests to the varied history of Indiana. Named after the numerous Native American-constructed mounds dotting the park, these features…
McCormick's Creek State Park
Eyeing the state’s centennial, Colonel Richard Lieber and others helped organize the creation of McCormick’s Creek State Park in 1916, making it Indiana’s first state park. McCormick’s Creek earned…
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Strife in the Hoosier State: The Civil War in Indiana
21 Locations ~ Curated by Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and ArchaeologyIndianapolis: LGBT+ History
9 Locations ~ Curated by Alyssa Boge, Braden Catt, Carolyn Harris, Meghan Hillman, Callie McCune, Adrienne Nirde, Stephanie Schulze, Laura Weiss, Jordan Ryan; Jeannie Regan-Dinius and Rebecca ShrumIndiana Bicentennial: Art as Dialogue
7 Locations ~ Curated by Annette Scherber, Rebecca Denne, Jenny Holly; Edited by Rebecca ShrumHoosiers and the Arts
17 Locations ~ Curated by Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and ArchaeologyNew Albany: A River City
9 Locations ~ Curated by University of Louisville Public History ProgramRandom Stories
James Whitcomb Riley Home
James Whitcomb Riley’s writing opportunities increased with his move to Indianapolis. He worked for the Indianapolis Journal and continued writing on his own. His first real success came with a series entitled “Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone”. Riley…
Hazelden (George Ade House)
Hazelden, known as “The House Where Laughter Dwelt”, was the home of writer George Ade. He started as a weather reporter for the Chicago Record in 1890. In 1893, he was assigned to cover the Columbian Exposition in Chicago and his series “All Roads…
Highland Golf and Country Club
The creation of Highland Golf and Country Club started in 1903. The club spent much of the early 1900’s growing and developing before coming together as the entity that it is recognized as now in September 1919. Highland was one of several country…
Carnegie Hall at Moore’s Hill College
Through the efforts of John Collins Moore, a college called the Moores Hill Male and Female Collegiate Institute (later known as Moores Hill College) was founded in Moores Hill, Indiana and opened to students in 1856. John C. Moore was the son of…
Shirk-Edwards House
Marie Stuart Edwards, a leader in suffrage and other social movements, was born in 1880 in Lafayette. Her youth included many “firsts”. She was the first girl in Lafayette to ride a bike and the first to attend a women’s college. In 1904, she married…
Sherman Minton Bridge
The Sherman Minton Bridge is a two-deck, two-span steel through-arch bridge that carries Interstate I-64 across the Ohio River west of Louisville. Completed in 1962, the bridge dramatically improved automobile transportation between New Albany and…
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A project by Discover IndianaDiscover Indiana has been made possible by a Public Projects grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its development has been previously funded by the Public History Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, the Indiana Historical Society, Indiana Humanities, and Indiana Landmarks. Discover Indiana gratefully acknowledges their support of for this project. Read more About Us