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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]
Roughly bound by Westfield Boulevard on the north, the east side of New Jersey Street on the east, 46th Street on the south, and the west side of Pennsylvania Street on the west 39°50′48″N 86°09′26″W / 39.8466°N 86.1571°W / 39.8466; -86.1571 ( North Pennsylvania Street Historic
Indianapolis; specifically, bounded by Michigan and Davidson Sts., New York Ave., and New Jersey St. 39°46′16″N 86°08′52″W / 39.771111°N 86.147778°W / 39.771111; -86.147778 ( Lockerbie Square Historic
John Hall Rankin and Thomas Kellogg, noted Philadelphia architects, secured the design contract, and the Treasury Department accepted the New York-based John Pierce Company's low construction bid of $1,300,000. [2] (The final cost, however, reached nearly $2,000,000.) Begun in 1902 and completed in 1905, the new federal building was massive.
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.
Indiana's code is 18, which when combined with any county code would be written as 18XXX. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county. [5] In Indiana, the most commonly seen number associated with counties is the state county code, which is a sequential number based on the alphabetical order of the county.
In 1970, the governments of Indianapolis and Marion County consolidated, expanding the city from 82 square miles (210 km 2) [3] to more than 360 square miles (930 km 2) overnight. As a result, Indianapolis has a unique urban-to-rural transect, ranging from dense urban neighborhoods, to suburban tract housing subdivisions, to rural villages. [4]