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www.myoldtownusa.com. Old Town is an open-air walking district and entertainment complex, located in Kissimmee, Florida. Operating since December 1986, [1] it is the recreation of a classic Florida town [2] featuring historical architecture and distinctive storefronts with some seventy unique shops, restaurants, bars, attractions, and rides. [3]
The land, originally owned by millionaire Skiles Test, was willed to Indianapolis after his death. [2] His house is supposedly a haunted house known as the House of Blue Lights. [3] Skiles Test, a local business man, lived on the property from 1913 to 1964. The property once had a miniature railway and a pool with bathhouses, elevators, and ...
The House of Blue Lights. Coordinates: 39°52′10″N 86°03′00″W. The House Of Blue Lights was the name given to a house on the far northeast side of Indianapolis, Indiana, US. Decorated year round with blue Christmas lights, it was actually the home of eccentric Indianapolis millionaire Skiles Edward Test. [1]
May 29, 1987. The neighborhood of Irvington, named after Washington Irving, includes Irvington Historic District, a historic district in Indianapolis, Indiana. The historic district is a 545-acre (221 ha) area that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. That year, the district included 2,373 contributing buildings, 5 ...
Coordinates: 41.548279°N 87.328295°W. The Ammons haunting case, also known as the Demon House, is an alleged haunting and demonic possession which occurred in Gary, Indiana in 2011. Latoya Ammons, her mother, Rosa Campbell, and her three children claimed paranormal activity occurred in the residence. The story was published in 2014 and ...
The Big Four Railroad, lifeblood of the connecting arteries in Central Indiana and beyond, required a bridge spanning Country Road 625 and White Lick Creek, so the bridge was built in 1906-1907 and double-tracked in 1908. It is about 300 feet long and 70 feet high, an imposing structure whose image graces the Avon town seal today.
September 26, 1997. Washington Street–Monument Circle Historic District is a national historic district located at Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, covering the first two blocks of East and West Washington and Market streets, the south side of the 100 block of East Ohio Street, Monument Circle, the first block of North and South Meridian ...
Oldfields. Oldfields, also known as Lilly House and Gardens, is a 26-acre (11 ha) historic estate and house museum at Newfields in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The estate, an example of the American country house movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2003.