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The Indiana State Fair relocates to a new site on Thirty-eighth Street. [300] Saints Peter and Paul Catholic parish is organized. In 1905 construction begins on its cathedral, which is dedicated in December 1906. [239] [301] 1893 Construction begins on the Das Deutsche Haus (The German House), the city's center for German culture. [302]
The first Marion County fair was held on October 30–31, 1835, and the first Indiana State Fair was held on the grounds of what became known as Military Park, west of downtown, in October 1852. [45] Until the arrival of the first railroads in 1847, few mills and manufacturing facilities were established in Indianapolis. [46]
The Indianapolis Star would have over 40 employees work to have the story quickly added to the next morning's paper before the press deadline of 1:30 a.m. [21] Partial view of the fairgrounds, seen here during the 2006 Indiana State Fair. The coliseum is visible in the left background.
The Indiana State Fair stage collapse was an incident during an August 13, 2011, outdoor concert by Sugarland as part of their Incredible Machine Tour at the Indiana State Fair in which a wind gust from an approaching severe thunderstorm hit the stage's temporary roof structure, causing it to collapse. The structure landed among a crowd of ...
The juice isn’t worth the squeeze for Orange. New York’s Orange County has had enough of being used as an ATM for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and now officials want to drop the ...
317 Project: This dairy farm in Traders Point was once nationally known for its prized cattle. Now it's getting demolished to make way for new housing.
The Pacers were very successful in their tenure at the Coliseum, winning three ABA Championships. They captured the ABA titles in 1969–70, defeating the Los Angeles Stars in 6 games, in 1971–72, defeating the New York Nets in 6 games, and in the 1972–73 season, defeating the Kentucky Colonels in 7 games.
Marjorie Jackson inherited millions from her father-in-law's grocery empire, but word quickly got around that she was hiding it throughout her Indianapolis home