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| Indiana (Wabash County), Wabash — 85.1962.1 — Camp Wabash | | | Site of 11th Congressional District military camp used to rendezvous, recruit and organize the 75th, 89th, 101st, 118th and 153rd Indiana Regiments during the Civil War. — Map (db m1456) | | Indiana (Wabash County), Wabash — 85.1966.1 — First Electrically Lighted City | | | On March 31, 1880, officials of Wabash began experimenting with Charles F. Brush’s carbon-arc lights. Four 3,000 candlepower lamps were placed atop the courthouse and used to illuminate the town until September, 1888. — Map (db m1457) | | Indiana (Wabash County), Wabash — 85.1992.1 — Paradise Spring Treaty Ground | | | At treaty ground (two blocks east) in October, 1826, Potawatomi and Miami tribes signed treaties with the United States ceding lands north of the Wabash River. The treaties included provisions for land for a canal and the Michigan Road. — Map (db m1458) |
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