| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — 54.2009.1 — Crawfordsville (Indiana) Carnegie Library — First Carnegie Library in Indiana |
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[Side one:]
In 1897, the Current Events Club, like many women’s clubs during this era, helped organize city’s public library. Andrew Carnegie donated $25,000 in 1901 for library building construction; city provided land and annual funding. Local architect W. F. Sharpe designed this Renaissance Revival building.
Continued on other side.
[Side two:]
Continued from other side.
This was first Carnegie Library opened in Indiana, . . . — Map (db m18825) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — Elston Memorial Home — Col. Isaac C. Elston Home |
| | [Small Upper Brass Plaque - by Front Door]:
This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. United States Department of Interior.
[Large Middle - Brass Plaque]:
In Memory of the Soldiers of the Revolutionary War of 1776 Buried in Montgomery County
Jacob Miller •
Alexander Foster •
Sebastion Stonebraker •
Presly Sims •
Samuel Gregory •
John Hardee •
William Mason •
John McNulty •
James McArthur •
Samuel Newell •
Robert . . . — Map (db m9396) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — Federal Land Office |
| | Public lands from the New Purchase of 1818 were sold from Ambrose Whitlock's cabin located on this site.
Whitlock, who platted Crawfordsville in 1823, was receiver for the Federal Land Office until 1829.
Williamson Dunn was register for the office which was moved from Terre Haute. — Map (db m13274) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — 54-1962-1 — Lane Place |
| | Home of Henry S. Lane (1811-81), Congressman, Governor, and Civil War senator. Chairman of the first Republican National Convention, 1856, he was a strong supporter of Lincoln and the Union. — Map (db m3882) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — 54.1963.1 — Major General Lew Wallace — 1827–1905 |
| | As Indiana’s adjutant general he organized the state for war. He saw action at Ft. Donelson, Shiloh and Monocacy. Later served as governor of New Mexico Territory and minister to Turkey. Author of Ben Hur. — Map (db m992) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — 54-2000-1 — Montgomery County Rotary Jail |
| | This jail and sheriff’s residence built 1882. First rotary jail built in U. S. constructed to plans based on patented design of William H. Brown and Benjamin F. Haugh of Indianapolis. In use until 1973. Opened as museum and restoration begun 1975. Listed in National Register of Historic Places 1975.
Circular cell block has sixteen wedge-shaped cells on a two-story turntable around a central shaft. Design promised better prisoner security and jailer safety. Cell block immobilized 1930’s as . . . — Map (db m3872) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — Montgomery County's Tribute to her Heroic Dead |
| | [Front Side - in Stone]:
Montgomery County's
Tribute to her Heroic Dead
Mexican War 1846 - 1948
Men Enrolled 98
War for the Union 1861 - 1865
Men Enrolled 2,971
Spanish American War 1898
Men Enrolled 264
[Under Both Statues:]:
"Lest We Forget"
[Back Side - In Stone]:
Montgomery County's Tribute to her Heroic Dead
War For Independence 1776
French and Indian War 1811 - 1812
Black Hawk War 1832
War with Grt. Britain 1812 - 1845 . . . — Map (db m9394) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — Otto Schlemmer Building |
| | This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by The United States
Department of The Interior — Map (db m9125) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — Saint John's Episcopal Church |
| | 1837
Indiana's Oldest Episcopal Church — Map (db m9398) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — Soldiers Buried in "Old Town Cemetery" - Crawfordsville, Indiana |
| | This Memorial erected in Memory of the following soldiers who are buried in this Cemetery.
The exact location of some are unknown. ———————————
Revolutionary War
Thomas Mason • James McArthur ——————————
War of 1812
Janson Cory ——————————— Black Hawk War
Elijah Mills . . . — Map (db m13280) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — Spanish American War Memorial — Crawfordsville - Montgomery County Indiana |
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[Left Side - Entry]
(Small Stone)
April 26, 1898
(Large Stone)
Remember the Maine Destroyed Feb. 15, 1898
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[Right Side - Entry]
(Small Stone)
July 4, 1902
(Large Stone)
To All Montgomery County Veterans of the War with Spain
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[Front of Obelisk]
Co. M. 158th Ind. Vol. Inf. War with Spain
[Right of Obelisk]
Charles O. Wilhite Captain
[Left of Obelisk] . . . — Map (db m18838) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — 54-1995-1 — Speed Cabin |
| | Site of house reputed to be a stop on the "Underground Railroad." Reconstructed cabin, which was portion of house owned by John Allen Speed, now located on grounds of lane Mansion. Speed, active in abolitionist movement, was Mayor of Crawfordsville, 1868 - 1869. — Map (db m3870) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — The Elston Homestead |
| | Built in the year 1835 by Major Isaac Compton Elston. A soldier in the War of 1812 and Black Hawk War. He was then in his thirty-ninth year, a pioneer merchant, banker and financier.
Presented to Wabash College by Major Elston's grandson, Isaac Compton Elston, Jr., 1873-1964. Veteran of the Spanish-American War, banker, broker and long a good friend and trustee of the college. — Map (db m6427) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Crawfordsville — Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church |
| | In 1824, Presbyterians worshipped together for the first time in Montgomery County in an unfinished log cabin. Expressing their religious mission through education, Presbyterians founded Wabash College in 1832 and the county's first free preschool program in 1969. The present sanctuary was constructed in 1881, and the education wing was added in 1961. In 2001, this church sponsored the Nation's first rural gun exchange. — Map (db m9126) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Ladoga — 54-1981-1 — Chief Cornstalk’s Village |
| | Chief Peter Cornstalk's village of Snakefish (Eel River) tribe of Miami Indians was located three miles from here along Cornstalk Creek. Wigwams and Indian furial ground were near the little Harshbarger family cemetery. The Indians lived at peace with settlers moving here in the 1800's. — Map (db m3884) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Linden — Linden Indiana Railroad Depot — Linden Railroad Museum |
| | This Property has been Placed on National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. — Map (db m9368) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Waynetown — Old Pioneer Cemetery |
| | Estab. Dec. 1829, the Cemetery predates Waynetown (then Middletown) which was estab. July 1830. The last burial was in 1908. William Bratton, the only member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804 - 1806) to be buried in Indiana, is buried here. The Cemetery is the final resting place for these vetrans:
WAR of 1812:: William E. Bratton - Simeon Osborne - Arthur Hicks - Phillip Moore - Christopher DeVoore.
MEXICAN WAR:: George A. Bratton - Joseph T. Hendricks - Frederick Zuck - Sylvester . . . — Map (db m3869) |
| Indiana (Montgomery County), Waynetown — 54-2002-1 — William Bratton — Lewis and Clark Expedition Member |
| | (Obverse): Bratton (1779 - 1841) is buried in this cemetery. With U.S. Army rank of private, he joined Lewis and Clark Expedition's Corps of Discovery near Clarksville, Indiana 1803. Corps explored lands of Louisiana Purchase and Pacific Northwest.
(Reverse): Bratton's duties included hunter, blacksmith, saltmaker. He completed entire journey; discharged October 10, 1806. Settled on farm in Wayne Township 1822; held various county and township offices, including Justice of the Peace. — Map (db m3868) |
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