Indiana Cities & Towns Thread

[Cpl. Klinger]

Franklin, IN (not my hometown, but where we happened to land) is the home from Franklin College, the first college in the state to admit women. We are also the home to the first Ritters Frozen Custard. You might also check out the Artcraft Theater for some reruns of classic movies. Historic Artcraft Theatre - Franklin, Indiana

 

[nailknocker]

Fairmount Indiana has supposedly placed more people in the book of who's who per capita than any other town in the U.S.
James Dean actor
Jim Davis cartoonist Garfield
Phil Jones CBS news correspndent
Dr. Robert Sheets National Hurricane center
Olive Rush artist
Mary Jane Ward author
Alvin Seale marine biologist
There are others, mostly in the education field.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

Bloomfield used to house live Alligators in it's courthouse (the moved from inside to an outdoor pond next to the courthouse when it was warm enough).

 

[eldirector]

Currently live in Brownsburg. If you want anything to do with auto racing, this is it! John Force has his headquarters here, and there are a LOT of racing teams in and around town. Also voted the #1 place to live in Indiana in 2009.

Was raised in Avon, back before that was even a town (just a flashing light at an intersection). The town was named by the railroad, and that location has also been known as Hampton, White Lick (for the creek), Smootsdale, and New Philadelphia. Pretty sure it only exists because of the Big Four rail yard. The Avon Marching Black and Gold holds more championships than any other marching band in Indiana.

 

[Ruffnek]

Solsberry,IN-Home to the Tulip Trestle,the longest real trestle in the US and the third longest of it's kind in the world.

 

[pjcalla]

Carmel was called Bethlehem until 1874. Carmel also had one of the first automatic traffic signals in the country at the intersection of Main Street and Rangeline Road.

 

[ghuns]

Fairmount Indiana has supposedly placed more people in the book of who's who per capita than any other town in the U.S.
James Dean actor
Jim Davis cartoonist Garfield
Phil Jones CBS news correspndent
Dr. Robert Sheets National Hurricane center
Olive Rush artist
Mary Jane Ward author
Alvin Seale marine biologist
There are others, mostly in the education field.

That book must not sell well, I have only heard of one person on that list.

 

[bakeman]

Linton, IN

Linton has the largest 4th of july parade in Indiana, bringing in over 40,000 people each year. (The towns population is 5,413 according to the 2010 census)

Linton played Hickory High in the movie Hoosiers.

Notable people from Linton:
Gene Porter Bridwell, seventh Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach.
David Butler, first Governor of Nebraska.
Phil Harris, musician, actor, and comedian. (did the voice for baloo in Jungle book.)
Devon Lee, pornographic film actress.
Dorothy Mengering, David Letterman's mother.
Ashley Russell, American sportscaster (Big 10 network i believe)

 

[ccherry]

Corydon, Indiana: Indiana's first state Capitol.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Linton, IN

Linton has the largest 4th of july parade in Indiana, bringing in over 40,000 people each year. (The towns population is 5,413 according to the 2010 census)

We still go, evey year...though it doesn't seem to be as large as it used to be.

 

[bakeman]

We still go, evey year...though it doesn't seem to be as large as it used to be.

You'll Like Linton!

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

Linton, IN

Linton has the largest 4th of july parade in Indiana, bringing in over 40,000 people each year. (The towns population is 5,413 according to the 2010 census)

Linton played Hickory High in the movie Hoosiers.

Notable people from Linton:
Gene Porter Bridwell, seventh Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach.
David Butler, first Governor of Nebraska.
Phil Harris, musician, actor, and comedian. (did the voice for baloo in Jungle book.)
Devon Lee, pornographic film actress.
Dorothy Mengering, David Letterman's mother.
Ashley Russell, American sportscaster (Big 10 network i believe)

At least one of those links is broken

Yeah. I only clicked on one.

 

[Old_grunt]

Most know of French Lick being the home of Larry Bird, but few know that it is where Ketchup was invented.

Pluto Water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[hooky]

Mentone Indiana is known as the Egg Basket of the Midwest.

 

[hornadylnl]

Don't forget Bottle Girl in Terra Haute.

 

[Moparracer89]

Jacob Munster, a young man from the Netherlands in the 1860s opened an area General Store complete with a U.S. postal station. The local farmers and settlers came to rely on the postal station, which soon became a United States Post Office. The post office was named Munster, as it was located in Jacob Munster's general store. In 1907 Munster was incorporated as a town.


During the Cold War, Munster served as the site of the Nike-Zeus Missile defense base C-46. The site was closed in 1971.

Buildings and grounds are still intact, and definitely still look like a missile base.

 

[Rhoadmar]

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.


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.

There is a piece of a bridge I'd always heard came from that ferris wheel. It is/was between sr.49 and sr.421 on the Kankakee. There is a county road right next to it with a little dnr boat launch within rock throwing distance.

 

[hooky]

Greensburg's Tower Tree

 

[sepe]

Mentone Indiana is known as the Egg Basket of the Midwest.

Been to the Bull Dog Saloon a few times. Hung out with the owner's son. There was a pretty good place for biscuits and gravy (giant sized portions) down the street, not that there was much of Mentucky proper that wasn't right down the block.

 

[eldirector]

Old Hickory Chair Company, now in Shelbyville, was originally in Martinsville. They produced "rustic" furniture for just any anyone who was anybody. Disney, Presidents, many National Park Inns, etc....
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