Vintage Irvington

      Since 2007, someone has been driving around in a little Google car with a camera on top, photographing streets and alleys around India...

      Editor's Note: After a hiatus of several months, I have returned to Vintage Irvington. I hope to add many more stories and histori...

      For the first twenty-five years of their marriage, Russell and Leona Harton resided in the village of Milroy in southern Rush County. ...

Irvington street names have a complicated history. Many of the avenues have been called by numerous names. In this second part of the series...

Ora and Mildred Heithecker of Brazil, Indiana rented half a double at 5843 Dewey Avenue in the late 1930s and early 1940s.  Mr. Heithecker w...

This modest stuccoed church has been along Good Avenue since 1910.  Begun in 1887, congregants for the First Baptist Church used to meet in ...

Peonies emerged on a beautiful spring day sometime in the 1950s on the side lot of 211 Good Avenue. On this site in 1890, used to stand th...

The Gerens dwelled at 211 Good Avenue from the 1920s to the late 1950s. Harry Geren (1882-1958) was a mechanic and worked with the India...

William McVey built 211 Good Avenue in 1901. Upon his passing in 1922, the McVeys eventually moved away. The next family to dwell in the ...