Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: Tribute to a “Hero in Overalls”

Classes were dismissed early on the afternoon of April 12, 1907, so that students and teachers at Shortridge High School could attend a funeral in the school’s auditorium, Caleb Mills Hall. The deceased individual was an...

Read More 8 Comments

Posted in: Mailbag HI Mailbag: Indianapolis’ First Public Schools

Reader’s Question: What were the first public schools in Indianapolis, and where were they located?  ~ Ann F., Indianapolis HI’s Answer:  From the time non-native settlers began to populate the area that in 1821 became the City...

Read More 71 Comments

Posted in: Mailbag HI Mailbag: Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne Stevenson (Part I)

Reader’s Question: What can you tell me about the homes in which Fanny Stevenson lived in the years before she left Indianapolis?  ~  Christy S., Meridian Hills  HI’s Answer: For HI readers who may not be aware, the wife of...

Read More 4 Comments

Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: A New Look at Lincoln

Have you ever taken the “one tank trip” to Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood home in southern Indiana, to see the log cabin where our sixteenth president grew up?  Do you remember dressing up in a stovepipe...

Read More 3 Comments