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The Indiana Central Canal was a canal intended to connect the Wabash and Erie Canal to the Ohio River.It was funded by the Mammoth Internal Improvement Act, Indiana's attempt to take part in the canal-building craze started by the Erie Canal. $3.5 million was allocated for the project, the largest piece of the entire $10 million Act.
Andrew Thomas House, in Carroll County First Christian Church, designed by Eliel Saarinen, in Bartholomew County Jeffries Ford Covered Bridge, destroyed by fire in 2002 but still NRHP-listed, in Parke County State Bank of Indiana, Branch of (Memorial Hall), in Vigo County USS LST 325 (tank landing ship), Vanderburgh County St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, designed by Edward D. Dart, in Lake ...
Nashville was laid out and platted in 1834 with 32 lots. Some stores and blacksmith shops were erected. However, a 1916 book on the county's history reports that the stores "disappeared long ago", though the blacksmith shops lasted longer, and all that was left of the community by then was a few houses. [3] [4]
The Survey and Registration Section of the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology oversees this state register. All places within Indiana that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places are automatically on Indiana's Register. Additional sites are on the state register, as the state's register does not require as ...
A History of Indiana. W.K. Stewart co. Indiana State Library, Indiana Historical Society (1909). Indiana Magazine of History; Kleber, John E (2001). Encyclopedia of Louisville. University Press of Kentucky. Shaw, Ronald E. (1993). Canals for the Nation. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-0815-2. Woollen, William Wesley (1975).
Nashville is a town in Washington Township, Brown County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,256 at the 2020 census. The town is the county seat of Brown County and is the county's only incorporated town. [4] The town is best known as the center of the Brown County Art Colony and as a tourist destination.
The district encompasses 149 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing objects in the central business district of Shelbyville. It developed between about 1822 and the 1930s, and includes notable examples of Italianate , Second Empire , Beaux-Arts , Classical Revival , and Art Deco style architecture.
The Indiana World War Memorial, begun in 1926 and finished in 1965, is a building commemorating World War I and II veterans. It is 210 feet (64 m) tall, made of Indiana limestone, and based on the Mausoleum of Mausolus. Within it is a military museum.