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The northern third of Indiana was served by area code 219 for 54 years. By the end of the 20th century, 219 was on the verge of exhaustion of central office prefixes. The decision was made to implement a three-way split of the 219 territory. As the result of a random drawing, the middle portion, surrounding South Bend, received area code 574.
The 219 area code covers the northwest part of the state, including the cities of Gary, Hammond, Merrillville, Valparaiso and Michigan City. The 574 area code covers north-central Indiana, and includes the cities of South Bend, North Judson and Warsaw. The 260 area code covers the northeast section of Indiana, including Fort Wayne and Angola.
In the first change of the original plan in 1948, 317 was cut back to central Indiana, while the northern third of Indiana, including Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, South Bend, Elkhart and Fort Wayne, received area code 219. [1] Despite the presence of the Chicago suburbs, Michiana and Fort Wayne, this configuration remained unchanged for 53 ...
The Truman Home (earlier known as the Gates–Wallace home), 219 North Delaware Street, Independence, Missouri, was the home of Harry S. Truman from the time of his marriage to Bess Wallace on June 28, 1919, until his death on December 26, 1972. Bess Truman's maternal grandfather, George Porterfield Gates, built the house between the years 1867 ...
The property was sold by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend to the YWCA of Fort Wayne in the 1970s. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1] in 1978 the property was purchased by the Fort Wayne YWCA and housed the largest women's shelter in Indiana.
Charles Winslow Miner (January 26, 1866 – May 22, 1912) was a well-known Fort Wayne, Indiana, photographer in the late 1890s and early 1900s.A native of Columbia City, Indiana, Miner moved to Fort Wayne around 1887 and established Miner's Studio on West Wayne Street in downtown Fort Wayne.
WOWO was first licensed in 1925 to the Main Auto Supply Co. at 213 West Main Street, [8] and began broadcasting on March 31, 1925, with 500 watts of power on 1320 kHz. The station was put on the air by Chester W. Keen, owner of Main Auto Supply, and studios were located upstairs in the company building.
St. Charles and St. Louis counties: Benjamin Howard (1760–1814), a Congressman from Kentucky, governor of Missouri Territory and a brigadier general in the War of 1812: 10,101: 466 sq mi (1,207 km 2) Howell County: 091: West Plains: 1857: Oregon County: Disputed – Josiah Howell, pioneering settler 40,735: 928 sq mi (2,404 km 2) Iron County ...