What’s in a Name?

Posted in: What’s in a Name? What’s in a Name? Totem Lane

Ever wonder how Totem Lane, in the Golden Hill neighborhood got its name? David Parry, the owner of Parry Manufacturing Company, owned land and built his estate on land that today encompasses the neighborhood of...

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Posted in: What’s in a Name? How Spades Park got its name

We pass so many names throughout the city–mostly of people long forgotten. So let’s rescue one from the history books and affirm that Spades Park did get its name from a man who donated the...

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Posted in: What’s in a Name? What’s in a Name: Dorman Street

Dorman St. Location: Near Eastside Namesake: Dorman Davidson, grandson of Noah Noble Governor Noah Noble, in addition to his service as the fourth governor of Indiana, was a major landowner in early Indianapolis and owned...

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Posted in: What’s in a Name? TALBOTT AVENUE, not STREET

The old Tinker homestead, looking north from 16th Street, formerly Tinker Street Once upon a time, before there was a thoroughfare of any name or form, much of current day Talbott Avenue (within Herron-Morton Place)...

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