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1914 postmarked postcard view of buggies and wagons parked alongside the courthouse square in Lebanon, Indiana.
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The following additional information is provided courtesy of David Enyart from his “Data Base of Indiana Court Houses.”
Lebanon was founded in 1833 to be the county seat. This is the fourth Boone County court house and has been in use since 1912.
Details: Castle style architecture; National Historic Place
142x105 feet
Cost: $265,000
Architect: Joseph T. Hutton
Ordered: 4/7/1909
Plan approved 8/16/1909
Builder: Caldwell & Drake
Contracted: 10/4/1909
Accepted: 12/20/1911
Opened to public: 1/1/1912
Dedicated: 7/4/1912
The 1912 Courthouse has 2 sets of 4 massive exterior columns that are said to have been the tallest single piece limestone columns in the world when manufactured. They are 35’ 5 ¾” in length and weigh about 30 tons each. The courthouse is constructed of Bedford (Oolitic) Limestone and has a beautiful octagonal rotunda.
David has compiled additional information for this and the other 91 Indiana counties. Through David's generosity, all of that information can be found at the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. The web address is www.genealogycenter.info/search_incourthousehistories.php.
Uncle Walters recollections -
"That was in Berlin. The wagons weren’t always that clean! We were still working, we did a lot of work. That must have been just after the Victory Parade, the wagons have been painted.”
Uncle Walter would have just turned 20 here.
Some interesting recollections from Peter Sleeman who worked at the factory :-
The article by Jon Everett in the Civic Society magazine of May 2022 reminded older residents of the excitement the Glenbur submarines, made in Formby by Burroughs, generated.
As the article stated Allan Thorpe held the patents for the models both in the UK and USA. Production was at it’s peak in the late 1940’s post war and early 1950’s.
Mr Isherwood, who sold the toys from his shop in Embassy buildings, one year had a tank erected at the Formby Show in Duke Street where he and an assistant spent all day demonstrating the toys
Unfortunately for most of us, the cost, (21/6 for the larger model), was well beyond our and our parent’s incomes so we had to be content with the demonstration. In fact not one of my friends had the pleasure of actually owning a model!
Back at the factory on Liverpool Road, myself and a friend managed to secure holiday jobs in the 50’s during the annual factory shutdown. We were tasked with the job of repainting the factory interior and it was a large space. We were supervised by the works manager who apparently had given up his own holiday to see the job completed.
Afterwards we were kept on to help in the factory witch specialised in making spade handles, in a format known as “D” referring to the type of handle. After making the basic handle, girls in the factory welded metal plates onto the handle to give them extra strength. The factory turned out thousands of these and they were sold all over UK and abroad. I recall accompanying the factory driver to Gladstone Dock Liverpool to deliver a load for USA. We joined a massive queue and spent all day waiting to offload. The advent of containerisation made a massive difference to quayside waiting times.
The factory was an important source of employment especially for ladies, although the noise made by the continuous riveting was deafening.
Working in a factory was a unique experience for me and subsequent holiday jobs were much more traditional Formby jobs, working on local farms during Easter and Summer and the post at Christmas
PETER SLEEMAN
May 2022
June 12, 1914 postcard view of a large crowd watching a parade in downtown Logansport, Indiana. The "Rodgers Cut Price Store" is at the left in the view. In the background is a banner for an event happening on June 18. On that same building above the banner, the name of a bakery has been painted, but is unreadable.
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1914 postmarked postcard view of State Street in Pendleton, Indiana. There were a few pedestrians in this scene and a handful of horse-drawn buggies and wagons. One vehicle in the distance may be an automobile. The photographer was standing west of Main Street and facing east when he took the photograph. The Main Street intersection is in the foreground.
Although this postcard has a postmark from 1914, the photograph was taken prior to 1910. The K. of P. (Knights of Pythias) Building at 16-18 West State Street (using the old street address system) was built in 1910. That building did not yet exist when this photograph was taken.
The hand water pump on the northeast corner of the Main Street intersection is shown in the 1914 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Pendleton, but not in the 1908 map set. The sign above the awning on that corner advertised DRY GOODS, SELZ SHOES and GROCERIES. Both map sets show this type of business at that location (40 West State Street). The Redmen’s Hall was on the second floor of that building. The 1908 map set shows the small wood frame building with the barber’s pole, but the building had been replaced by a single-story brick structure by the time the 1914 map set was being prepared. The 1908 and the 1914 map sets both identify the next building east (single-story brick construction) as the Pendleton Post Office (36 West State Street). Beyond the post office, the single-story wood frame building was a 5c theatre according to the 1908 map set. However, that building had also been replaced by a single-story brick structure (34 West State Street) by 1914.
Farther east, very few business signs were visible. The name on the _______ OFFICE sign east of the 5c theatre isn’t quite readable. Both map sets show a millinery shop and a grocery store in that building (30 West State Street) with a stairway between the two businesses. The sign was probably hanging above the stairway entrance and advertising a professional office on the second floor. The only other visible sign on the north side of the street is the RESTAURANT sign. The 1908 map set shows a restaurant in a single-story wood frame building west of the IOOF (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) Building. The distinctive IOOF façade is easy to identify in this photograph. However, the four small wood frame buildings to the west of it are difficult to see in this scene. The K. of P. Building and a bank replaced those small buildings and businesses in 1910.
The railroad crossing arms in the background identify the location of the C. C. C. & St. L. (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis) Railway crossing. The crossing is between Pendleton Avenue and Broadway Street. The location of the HARNESS sign on the south side of State Street matches a harness and implements business at 11 East State Street in the 1908 map set. The DENTIST sign may have been on the building at the southwest corner of Pendleton Avenue or possibly above the bank on the southeast corner. The 1908 map set shows two saloons in the building on the southwest corner (1 and 3 West State Street). A Third saloon was located at 11 West State Street, but none of the three was identifiable in this photograph. The CIGAR STORE sign advertised a store located at 5 West State Street when the 1908 map set was published. That building and several other wood frame buildings (5 West State to 15 West State) were gone by the time the 1914 map set was being prepared.
The large barber’s pole in this scene stood in front of the two-story brick building at 25 West State Street. A cigar store was located in that building when the 1908 map set was being prepared, but the 1914 map set shows a barbershop. It is unclear on which building the PENDLETON LAUNDRY sign is posted. Neither map set lists a laundry business in that vicinity. The name on the ______ OFFICE UP STAIRS sign is not quite readable. The three-story building (27-29 West State Street) housed a furniture store in 1908. The K. of P. Hall was on the second floor and the Masonic Hall was on the third floor. The small wood frame building next door (31 West State Street) was occupied by a confectionery business when both map sets were published. The word HAIR was painted on the next building west (35 West State Street). However, both map sets show a photo gallery in that building. The sign next door (37 West State Street) advertised a cobbler’s business that is shown in the 1908 map set, but was gone by the time the 1914 set was being prepared. The business sign used images of a boot and a shoe as part of the sign. A tailoring business occupied the building on the southeast corner at Main Street. The building also served as a dwelling.
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1912 dated postcard view of Decatur, Indiana. The 1912 date was derived from the OTHELLO poster on the building in the foreground. The performance date was THURSDAY OCT 10. A perpetual calendar gives the year as 1912.
This aerial view was looking northwest from the intersection of Jefferson and Second Streets. The photographer was probably on the two-story building at the southeast corner of that intersection (201 South Second Street). The 1907 and 1914 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets for Decatur show that building to be the tallest in the immediate vicinity. Interestingly, a photography studio was located on the southwest corner of that intersection (200 South Second Street) and is identified in both map sets.
The building with the Othello poster (136 South Second Street) was the location of a marble works business when the 1907 map set was being prepared. It was being used for storage when the 1914 map set was produced. All the brick buildings in that block are in both map sets and were still standing as of 2011. The three-story building was on the southwest corner at South Second and Court Streets. The Elks and I. O. R. M. (Improved Order of Red Men) meeting halls were in that building in 1907. The Fort Wayne and Decatur Railway Co. interurban station was located on that corner when both map sets were published. The track is visible in Second Street.
The tall steeple in the background above the Othello poster belonged to the St. Marien Roman Catholic Church on the northwest corner at Madison and Fourth Streets. The steeple, according to the 1907 map set, was 140 feet tall. The other tall structure in the background was the Adams County Courthouse clock tower rising above the three-story building. The courthouse square is north of Court Street and the clock tower is 110 feet tall according to the Sanborn™ map sets.
From the collection of Jane Lyle.
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1913 postmarked postcard view of the post office in Oswego, Indiana. The gentleman in this photo is probably John F. Pound. He owned a general store in Oswego and was initially appointed postmaster in 1889. An online history says that he resigned in 1898 to become township trustee. At that time, his wife, Sarah D. Pound, became the new postmistress. Mr. Pound succeeded his wife and again became postmaster in 1914. Although his wife was probably postmistress when this photo was taken, this is probably John Pound in the photo.
Identifiable advertising in the top portion of the view includes: RELIABLE COFFEE, KEMP’S BALSAM for throat and lungs, WE SELL THE FAMOUS HE-MI-LA _____ MADE BY HEIT-MILLER-LAU CO. FORT WAYNE, IND., LOVELESS MAGIC RAZOR STROP, and PAY CAR SCRAP tobacco. I haven’t been able to determine what the sign behind the stove pipe is advertising.
The calendar in the center of the view is advertising L_______ LONDON GLOBE. There is a SMOKE TANSILL’S advertisement in a case behind the stove. The box in the lower left-hand corner is from P. LORILLARD COMPANY and advertises A PLEASANT CHEW. The box standing on end on the other side of the store is from the DAYTON SPICE MILLS CO. of Dayton, Ohio. It was used to ship OLD RELIABLE FANCY ROASTED COFFEE.
There is a scale on the counter at the left. The clock on the back wall appears to be a Regulator. The case with a glass front that is sitting on the counter in front of the clock appears to be the post office mail boxes.
This image was created by Thomas Keesling from a postcard courtesy of the Indiana Postal History Society.
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everything seemed to be going downhill; i was literally down to my last three quarters. i even contemplated going to outside sources for help. i had to fix the situation. but then,
BAM!
i remembered there was a pouch of toll-booth quarters in the car from the last trip home. i was once again free to wash the laundry! TAKE THAT, DIRTY TOWELS! TAKE IT AND SUCK IT! yeeeeah, i'll show YOU unscented tide with baking soda! i need 6 quarters to wash a single pile of laundry, and as 3 quarters and no clean clothes left equals hippie time, i was understandably worried. but now all is well. until next time.
on a funny note, tonight's laundry event has nothing to do with this photo, which is from thursday. the shot just seemed like a kind of "but wait..." moment. this also started as a color then went to a b&w then a different b&w and then a color again and then a texture and now a sepia with texture. i still can't decide.
spinnnnn!
330/365
From Josephine Neill's scrapbook.
There so many things (flowers, corsage ribbons, cigarettes) with Bud's name on them in Josephine's scrapbook, so the romance between Bud and Josephine during their college days must have been quite a serious one. Wish I knew what happened to their little love affair. Was she too flirty with other boys? Was he too quiet? Did they get bored with each other, argue too much? Whatever happened, neither of them married during college, I know that. Bud went off to New Mexico, and I don't know when he got married. Josephine didn't marry until long after college when she was 27 (in 1935).
“Portobello ReCollection” is a six month arts project in Notting Hill launching this Autumn 2010. We begin with transforming the 100 metre long Portobello North Wall on the Portobello Road into “Wall of Sound”, a giant shelf of records with the titles reproduced on 2 metre high album cover spines, creating an explosion of colour and type design. The celebration of the rich musical heritage of Notting Hill in this wall of sound, will emphasize the connection between the place, its people and its music; as if the wall was Notting Hill’s own private record collection.
Portobello Road. Chelsea, London.
c1907 postcard view of automobiles lining Main Street in Brook, Indiana. Three license plates are readable on the parked automobiles in this scene. The license on the first automobile on the left appears to be L 150 IND and the first one on the right was Z-3-8-IND. About half way back on the right, the license was 566 IND. Those first two match the 1907 style of Indiana license plates while the third matches the 1906 style.
The photographer was standing in the middle of Main Street about half way between Railroad and Jefferson streets and looking west. Numerous automobiles were parked on both sides of the street. The porch at the left edge was part of a hotel that was identified as such in a 1916 Newton County atlas.¹ Several women were on the porch waiting for the festivities to begin. That building still stands on the south side of Main Street.
The 1916 atlas shows an unnamed street just beyond the hotel that extended the short distance south to the railroad. That street is still there. Beyond that street to the west was a small triangular block that extended west nearly to the railroad. The three buildings in this scene beyond the hotel were in that block. The two-story brick building closely resembles the two-story brick building standing at that location as of 2009. The railroad depot sat at the far end of that block along the east side of the railroad. The north end of the depot is visible in this postcard scene and an oval railroad crossing sign is visible above the last car on the north (right-hand) side of the street.
The railroad was the C. & I. C. (Chicago and Indiana Coal) Railway. It was associated with the C. & E. I. (Chicago and Eastern Illinois) Railroad and the 1916 atlas labels the railroad as the C. & E. I. This route had been abandoned by the early 1960s. The USGS topographic maps show the old railroad grade from Wadena in Benton County through Goodland, Brook and Morocco to Momence, Illinois.
The three signs posted on utility poles advertised IN A BIG TENT. Those signs included the numeral 16, but the remainder of the sign is unclear. They were probably advertising a chautauqua or other event. Maybe the gathering of automobiles was related to that event.
1. Standard Atlas of Newton County, Indiana (Chicago, IL: George A. Ogle and Company, 1916).
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The third panel in the LULUBELL Toy (Re)collections triptych. In this one I recreated my earliest toy experiment when I attempted to make a mold of my Greedo figure with a bar of soap and cast it in Green crayon.
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c1906 (?) postcard view looking south on Walnut from Main Street. The stack of bricks in the foreground may have been there for the remodeling of the Opera House Building or for street paving. All the vehicles appear to be horse-drawn. The nearest readable business sign on the south (left) side of the street is for Peoples' Drug Store. A 1911 business directory indicates the drug store was located on the corner. Perhaps the store moved after this photo was taken? There's another drug store sign a few doors further down the street, possibly Andrew's Drug Store at 124 South Walnut.
On the southwest corner of the intersection stood the Opera House Building. There is a jeweler's watch hanging from the building at the corner. The banners hanging from the building are for Hagenbeck's Circus. The white sign on the Walnut Street side of the building is for the Star Drug Store. After this photo was taken, Jacob H. Wysor added three stories to the building and it became known as the Wysor Block.
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Romare Bearden created the 1984 Pittsburgh Recollections mural for the underground Gateway Center light rail station. Bearden went to high school in Pittsburgh, and the mural depicts the history of the region.
Along Jefferson Street, at the entrance of the Hope Gardens neighborhood, a man teeters over his bicycle and watches the cars roll past on a Sunday afternoon. He was more than happy to tell of his memories of Jefferson Street and how things have changed over the years.
...and reflections. Title is a song by From Autumn to Ashes.
Photo was taken on a beautiful morning at Packwood Lake in the Gifford Pinchot/Goat Rocks National Forest in Washington State.
1915 postmarked postcard view of the Yellow Banks Hotel “Lookout” on Webster Lake near North Webster, Indiana. The lake is in Kosciusko County. This view was looking from the dock up the steps to the hotel’s “Lookout.” Boats were tied to the dock and guests were posing on the steps and at the “Lookout” railing. The hotel was in the background at the left edge of this view.
A 1915 report from the Indiana Department of Fisheries and Game had this to say about the hotel. “The hotel has accommodations for about one hundred and fifty guests, and enjoying the large popularity that has come to it deservedly, one does wisely by writing previously to his coming to the lake to have his quarters reserved for him. The building this year is a new one, the old one having burned down last December. For those who come to fish, about forty-five boats are kept in readiness at the pier.”¹
This is a John Inbody photograph (Elkhart, Indiana). He was an excellent photographer and very good when it came to getting people into his photographs.
1. Department of Fisheries and Game, Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries and Game for Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: Wm. B. Burford, 1908), page 166. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=UIkmAQAAIAAJ&printsec=front....
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1907 copyrighted postcard view of the French Lick Springs Hotel lobby at French Lick, Indiana. Several guests were standing along the sides of the room while others were seated at the back and on the mezzanine. The photograph was taken at night.
From the collection of Thomas Keesling.
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1910 postmarked postcard view of the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction Company Station in Rushville, Indiana. The car in the foreground was the Local Rushville and Connersville car. The station was located on the northeast corner of West Third (West Elizabeth) and North Morgan Streets. The photographer was looking northeast across that intersection when he took the photograph. Both trolley cars were turning east onto West Third Street from Morgan Street.
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c1910 view of the Spring Lake Park interurban station. The station was located along the Old National Road (US 40 today) between Greenfield and Indianapolis. I produced this print from a photograph and added the title. The cemetery in the background in this scene is still located south of US 40 and east of Sugar Creek. Smith-Johnson Ditch ran along the south side of the road in this area toward Sugar Creek. That ditch may explain why the station is elevated between the two tracks. The photographer was standing on the south edge of the road and looking east-southeast.
The nearest sign in the shelter informed visitors to SEE THAT YOUR TICKETS ARE STAMPED AT SPRING LAKE PARK _______ THE CAR. The other sign is unclear. The privately owned park was located about half a mile south of this station. Spring Lake is a residential community today.
Trolley car number 30 was in front of the station and car number 45 was behind the station. The name GREENFIELD was printed in large letters on the side of car 45 and the name above the windows appears to include the word RAPID. It is highly likely these cars belonged to the Indianapolis & Greenfield Rapid Transit Company. That company was incorporated in 1899 and operated seven passenger and express cars and a work car on 17 miles of track east of Irvington.¹ A 1903 financial securities publication included the following information about the first phase of interurban railway consolidation between Indianapolis and Richmond.
“Indianapolis & Eastern Railway.—Incorporated under laws in 1902 as a consolidation of the Indianapolis & Greenfield Rapid Transit and the Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Co. Operates about 30 miles of track extending from Knightstown to Irvington, where it connects with the Indianapolis Street Railway, over whose tracks it operates into Indianapolis under a 31 year contract. An extension is being built to Dublin, Ind.”²
The Dublin extension became operational in 1905 and was the final interurban link between Indianapolis and Dayton, Ohio. The R. S. & I. (Richmond Street & Interurban) Railway Co. had already extended their line west to Dublin, and that 16-mile line connected with the Dayton & Western Traction Company system that operated between Richmond and Dayton, Ohio (40 miles). The following report was published in January 1905.
“The remarkable extent to which construction and connection of electric railways in central Indiana and Ohio has been accomplished is well illustrated by an article in the Street Railway Journal, recording a trip of Indiana managers of electric roads, taken recently under the auspices of the Ohio Interurban Railway Association. The tour as made by the official party in special cars, starting from Indianapolis, covered a total of 781 miles, over which the actual running time was about 27 hours, giving an average speed of 27.96 miles per hour for the entire trip.³
That trip took the group east from Indianapolis, through Dublin and Richmond to Ohio, and brought them back to Indianapolis via that same route after visiting several Ohio cities.
In 1907, the T. H. I. & E. (Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern) Traction Company was formed via the consolidation of the I. & E., the R. S. & I. and several other central Indiana interurban companies. The T. H. I & E. ultimately operated one of the largest interurban systems in Indiana.
1. The Quotation Supplement of The Commercial & Financial Chronicle (New York, NY: William B. Dana Company, 1901), page 46. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=2TlOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
2. Moody’s Manual of Corporation Securities (New York, NY: Moody Publishing Company, 1903), page 1041. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=J2U3AQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
3. The Railway Age, Volume 39 (Chicago, IL: Railway Age Company, 1905), page 78. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=RINPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
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Marsden Hartley's New Mexico Recollection #6, an oil paint on canvas, was executed in 1922. Hartley strove to capture what he called the "solidity" of the landscape aroound Taos and Santa Fe. "The country of the Southwest is essentially a sculptural country," he wrote.
The Denver Art Museum, a private, non-profit museum, is known for its collection of American Indian art. Its impressive collection of more than 68,000 works includes pieces from around the world including modern and contemporary art, European and American painting and sculpture, and pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial art. The museum was originally founded in 1893 as the Denver Artists Club. In 1918, it moved into galleries in the Denver City and County Building, and became the Denver Art Museum.
In 1971, the museum opened what is now known as the North Building, designed by Italian architect Gio Ponti and Denver-based James Sudler Associates. The seven-story structure, 210,000-square-foot building allowed the museum to display its collections under one roof for the first time. The Frederic C. Hamilton Building, designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind and Denver firm Davis Partnership Architects, opened on October 7, 2006 to accommodate the Denver Art Museum's growing collections and programs.
30 years of photography at the NY public library
Nearly all the photographs were portraits in comparison to now I think our materialistic minds tend to capture things more often than people.
Sears TLS | Sears (Mamiya Sekor) 55mm | Kodak Gold
May 2000. Vietnam War Memorial. Heck Park. Monroe, Michigan.
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Indiana History Prints
I began creating a series of Indiana History Prints in 2002. These are mostly digital collages based on authentic original antique postcards, photographs and other paper items. I also began experimenting with the production of prints based on individual postcards and advertisements, but didn’t get serious about this aspect of the project until 2005.
All of my prints depict some aspect of the epic changes occurring in Indiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This was the era when railroads crisscrossed the state and the interurban system was beginning to spread rapidly along many of the same routes. These two transportation systems were competing in some respects, but provided excellent choices for passenger, freight and mail services. The telephone was not yet widely available and postcards became a common method of communication between 1905 and 1910. The postcards were functional and collectible. After the turn of the century, the automobile began slowly replacing the horse and buggy, and that process ultimately led to the decline of the interurban as well. Tens of thousands of items—postcards in particular—memorialized that era in every part of the state. The very best examples of the postcards and photographs offer some amazing views of that era.
I am entirely responsible for the creation and production of the prints. They have been produced with care and each element used in the prints looks at least as good as the original. Each print is produced in very small quantities on 100% cotton rag watercolor paper (Hahnemühle Photo Rag®). The paper has a slight warm tone rather than being bright white, making it particularly suitable for printing historical objects. The prints will look good for decades, but need to be matted, framed and displayed behind glass to protect them from physical and environmental damage.
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This is a circa 1910 view of Spring Lake Park. The privately owned park was located about half a mile south of the Old National Road (US 40 today) between Greenfield and Indianapolis. I produced this print from a photograph and added the title. Spring Lake is a residential community today.
The Spring Lake interurban stop adjacent to the Old National Road made it easy for visitors to get to the park. The interurban line was originally owned by the Indianapolis & Greenfield Rapid Transit Company that was incorporated in 1899. It operated seven passenger and express cars and a work car on 17 miles of track east of Irvington.¹ However, the company name changed as a result of consolidation. A 1903 financial securities publication included the following information about the first phase of interurban railway consolidation between Indianapolis and Richmond.
“Indianapolis & Eastern Railway.—Incorporated under laws in 1902 as a consolidation of the Indianapolis & Greenfield Rapid Transit and the Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Co. Operates about 30 miles of track extending from Knightstown to Irvington, where it connects with the Indianapolis Street Railway, over whose tracks it operates into Indianapolis under a 31 year contract. An extension is being built to Dublin, Ind.”²
The Dublin extension became operational in 1905 and was the final interurban link between Indianapolis and Dayton, Ohio. The R. S. & I. (Richmond Street & Interurban) Railway Co. had already extended their line west to Dublin, and that 16-mile line connected with the Dayton & Western Traction Company system that operated between Richmond and Dayton, Ohio (40 miles). The following report was published in 1905.
“The remarkable extent to which construction and connection of electric railways in central Indiana and Ohio has been accomplished is well illustrated by an article in the Street Railway Journal, recording a trip of Indiana managers of electric roads, taken recently under the auspices of the Ohio Interurban Railway Association. The tour as made by the official party in special cars, starting from Indianapolis, covered a total of 781 miles, over which the actual running time was about 27 hours, giving an average speed of 27.96 miles per hour for the entire trip.³
That trip took the group east from Indianapolis, through Dublin and Richmond to Ohio, and brought them back to Indianapolis via that same route after visiting several Ohio cities.
In 1907, the T. H. I. & E. (Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern) Traction Company was formed via the consolidation of the I. & E., the R. S. & I. and several other central Indiana interurban companies. The T. H. I & E. ultimately operated one of the largest interurban systems in Indiana.
1. The Quotation Supplement of The Commercial & Financial Chronicle (New York, NY: William B. Dana Company, 1901), page 46. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=2TlOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
2. Moody’s Manual of Corporation Securities (New York, NY: Moody Publishing Company, 1903), page 1041. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=J2U3AQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
3. The Railway Age, Volume 39 (Chicago, IL: Railway Age Company, 1905), page 78. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=RINPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
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