Indiana Cities & Towns Thread

[Frosty]

Lizton, Indiana.

There's only ONE Lizton in the world, and that's Lizton, Indiana. And the Dairy Bar is quite awesome.

lizton is a nice little place. I stop at the gas station and eat lunch when I'm up that way. It's not very often I can turn the truck off and listen to the birds sing.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Fort Ritner (now part of Bedford) had a Post Office in the general store. Leipsic (Orleans) had a Post Office in the Massey Ferguson dealership. I remember the Post Mistress (older lady named Katie) also worked in the parts department of the dealership.


I can't find a reference on it, but my Dad always said Bono (not even a wide spot in the road between Saltillo and Mitchell) lost the election to be State Capital by 10 votes.

 

[Mackey]

Santa Claus is a small town in Spencer County, southwestern Indiana with a recorded population of 2,481. The town received approval of the name, Santa Claus, in 1856. Since about 1914 volunteers of the town have been answering letters from Children sent to Santa. The town has a special postmark for Christmas season, and many people like to get their Christmas cards sent out from that town just for that mark. The town is home to numerous attractions including: Holiday World and Splashin' Safari, Santa's Candy Castle, Santa Claus Museum, Frosty's Fun Center, Christmas Lake Golf Course, Santa's Stables and Santa's Lodge and Lake Rudolph Campground & RV Resort.

 

[comanche]

Linton, IN
center of population for 1930-1940

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Fort Ritner (now part of Bedford) had a Post Office in the general store. Leipsic (Orleans) had a Post Office in the Massey Ferguson dealership. I remember the Post Mistress (older lady named Katie) also worked in the parts department of the dealership.


I can't find a reference on it, but my Dad always said Bono (not even a wide spot in the road between Saltillo and Mitchell) lost the election to be State Capital by 10 votes.

I was going to mention this...(well, I didn't know about the vote tally)...but I couldn't find it this afternoon but I do remember reading somewhere, some time ago. I live a couple of miles between Bono and there's not much there now. Makes you wonder what it was about that area that made it appealing enough to be in consideration.

 

[hooky]

Great pic! Thanks for sharing, comanche.

 

[comanche]

I don't (obviously) post pictures often and forgot you can't do it that way....sorry...

 

[comanche]

 

[87iroc]

Seymour Indiana while being pretty well known as the boyhood home of John Mellencamp....it was also the site of the first train Robbery in America. 1863. The perpetrators were captured and lynched at a place known by old timers as Hangman's crossing...a railroad crossing somewhere there in Seymour on US50 I believe. They are buried in the Cemetery off of route 11 down there.

 

[87iroc]

Kouts Indiana was named after the Kouts Family. When the railroad came through the surveyors tried the first house they came to for quarters for the night and were turned away. The 2nd house was the Kouts family and they gave them a place to stay...thus they named town there Kouts.

 

[mrjarrell]

I don't (obviously) post pictures often and forgot you can't do it that way....sorry...

So, fix it.

 

[KellyinAvon]

I was going to mention this...(well, I didn't know about the vote tally)...but I couldn't find it this afternoon but I do remember reading somewhere, some time ago. I live a couple of miles between Bono and there's not much there now. Makes you wonder what it was about that area that made it appealing enough to be in consideration.

I can't imagine Bono EVER having a population that could make it a possible state capital. Maybe they were voting "the Chicago way"??

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I can't imagine Bono EVER having a population that could make it a possible state capital. Maybe they were voting "the Chicago way"??

 

[stephen87]

First of all, great picture.

Second of all, Indianapolis is the birthplace of David Letterman and home to Raggedy Ann.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Fort Ritner (now part of Bedford) had a Post Office in the general store. Leipsic (Orleans) had a Post Office in the Massey Ferguson dealership. I remember the Post Mistress (older lady named Katie) also worked in the parts department of the dealership.


I can't find a reference on it, but my Dad always said Bono (not even a wide spot in the road between Saltillo and Mitchell) lost the election to be State Capital by 10 votes.

A friend of mine at work, worked with his dad in a electrical business a long time ago. (My friend is in his mid-60's now). He told me that for a time, he and his dad would have to periodically go to a place in/near Leipsic to work on some equipment that was part of some 50's era telephone equipment. According to him, it was part of some government/military only communications equipment. The equipment was underground and secured.

(Third hand -- hear say information, I know).

 

[Bunnykid68]

Got a riverboat down here.
Don Mattingly

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I don't (obviously) post pictures often and forgot you can't do it that way....sorry...

Please delete the contents of that post, commanche.

 

[Scout]

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.

The first professional baseball game was played in Fort Wayne in 1871.

The Detroit Pistons were originally the Zollner Pistons, and played in the gym of North Side High School until the Memorial Coliseum was built.

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.

 

[KellyinAvon]

A friend of mine at work, worked with his dad in a electrical business a long time ago. (My friend is in his mid-60's now). He told me that for a time, he and his dad would have to periodically go to a place in/near Leipsic to work on some equipment that was part of some 50's era telephone equipment. According to him, it was part of some government/military only communications equipment. The equipment was underground and secured.

(Third hand -- hear say information, I know).

I heard that same story too, and...
When I was in the USAF I worked at a Major Command (organize, train, equip) Headquarters towards the end of my career. I'm sitting in a meeting where they prioritized what they would do in future years. There was this bunch there briefing upgrading some equipment tht had been in place since the Cold War for communications after a nuclear attack. They threw a US map up that showed where the equipment was. Yeap, I looked for Leipsic, Indiana and it was on the map.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I heard that same story too, and...
When I was in the USAF I worked at a Major Command (organize, train, equip) Headquarters towards the end of my career. I'm sitting in a meeting where they prioritized what they would do in future years. There was this bunch there briefing upgrading some equipment tht had been in place since the Cold War for communications after a nuclear attack. They threw a US map up that showed where the equipment was. Yeap, I looked for Leipsic, Indiana and it was on the map.

Right before you get to the railroad tracks heading east, towards Salem, on highway 60, there's a road on the right that takes you back towards Leipsic. (I don't remember the name). About midway between highway 60 and Leipsic, there's a small white building with a chain link fence around it...Reckon that's it?