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  • Ghosts of North Central Indiana

    Series series Haunted America
    North Central Indiana is rich in farmlands, wind turbines, and small towns. It is also thick with ghosts.Ghastly apparitions roam the town of Battle Ground, where the infamous Battle of Tippecanoe occurred. A woman trying to put her life back together soon found herself disturbed by inexplicable events in a Fountain County apartment. Roads in Newton, Clinton, and Grant counties are but a few such ... Read more

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  • Ghosts and Mysteries of Broward County

    Series series Haunted America
    Residents of and visitors to Broward County might not realize how many haunting tales are connected to the many popular beaches, roadways and destinations here. What really happened to six aircraft that went missing in what might be one corner of the Devil's Triangle? Does a shape-shifting panther man lurk in the wild places off the Dixie Highway? Just how many startling specters have appeared ... Read more

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  • Monticello

    by W. C. Madden ...
    Series series Images of America
    Monticello was founded by the White County commissioners in 1834 on a bluff above the Tippecanoe River. They named it after the mansion ofThomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. It was incorporated as a town in 1862. The county seat grew more rapidly when the railroads cameto town before the Civil War. Then the town grew large enough to become a city in 1909, and a mayor was ... Read more

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  • Lost White County, Indiana

    Series series Lost
    White County has been acquainted with loss since its very beginning. First formed in 1834, the county saw its first citizens, the Potawatomi, removed to Kansas in September 1838. As time went by, communities like Wyoming never developed, and others like Headlee died out. Numerous high schools, including Buffalo, Idaville, Round Grove, Wolcott and six others, disappeared with consolidation in the ... Read more

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  • Baseball in Indianapolis

    by W.C. Madden ...
    Series series Images of Baseball
    Victory Field, built in 1996 as home to the Indianapolis Indians, is considered by many today as the best minor league ballpark in the nation. But baseball has deeper roots in the Circle City, as fans of the Tribe will discover in the pages of Baseball in Indianapolis, which tells the story of the American pastime in the state capitol from the post-Civil War era up to the present day. Legends like ... Read more

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  • Tecumseh’S Curse

    by W. C. Madden ...
    From the author of more than thirty other titles comes his first mystery fiction that is all set to absorb readers. This time W.C. Madden will take them on an exciting journey through time to witness mysteriously compelling events in Tecumsehs Curse.This story unfolds in the modern day of Battle Ground, a small town where the Battle of Tippecanoe took place two hundred years before. Through the ... Read more

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  • Crown Hill Cemetery

    by W.C. Madden ...
    Series series Images of America
    Indianapolis' Crown Hill Cemetery is noted for its unique beauty and historic significance. Dedicated on June 1, 1864, the cemetery, at more than 555 acres, is the final resting-place to over 185,000 citizens and is one of the most historically significant areas in the city. Many of the country's great leaders, soldiers, entrepreneurs, and artists are buried within the cemetery's confines ... Read more

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  • Indianapolis

    by W.C. Madden ...
    Series series Then and Now
    Inaugurated as the state capital in 1825, Indianapolis was patterned after the nation's capital and laid out on a mile-square grid with Monument Circle at its center. As the city grew and experienced the tumult of the Civil War, legislators decided to erect a monument to the war's fallen servicemen. In 1902, one of the world's most outstanding memorials was completed-the Soldiers and Sailors ... Read more

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  • The Rotary Jail

    Escape-Proof Cells on a Carousel, 1882-1966

    by W.C. Madden ...
    The rotary jail was a very unusual architectural design. In response to a need for better control over prisoners, 18 of the revolving, escape-proof structures were erected in the United States from 1882 through 1889.There were problems. There were mechanical difficulties due to the extreme weight of the components. Unwary prisoners lost digits or limbs when carousels were rotated without warning- ... Read more

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  • The College World Series

    Series series Images of Baseball
    Since 1950, Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium (formerly Municipal Stadium) has hosted the nation's top college baseball programs in the College World Series. Baseball fans from every corner of the country have taken the annual "Road to Omaha" and packed the seats to see championship baseball at its best. In 1954 thousands saw Jim Ehrler of Texas toss the tourney's first no-hitter en route to the ... Read more

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  • Wood County, West Virginia

    Series series Images of America
    Nestled in the midst of the Mid-Ohio Valley along the Ohio River, Wood County exists as one of West Virginia's most populous areas. A unique history drives forward the county's diverse communities, and today's residents enjoy a varied palette of opportunities offered by both metropolitan centers and smaller, more rural hamlets. Wood County, West Virginia honors an integral chapter of The Mountain ... Read more

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  • Ogden and Spencerport

    Series series Images of America
    The town of Ogden and the village of Spencerport were considered pioneer country when the first settlers arrived in 1801 from Connecticut, seeking more fertile farmland. The two communities witnessed the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 and survived through the rise and fall of the importance of that waterway. Throughout much of the nineteenth century, many farms produced and sold vast amounts ... Read more

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