Showing posts with label International Harvester. Show all posts
Showing posts with label International Harvester. Show all posts
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Brookville Village Opened in 1949

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      Four years after the end of World War II, the city of Indianapolis faced a housing shortage. Prices for existing homes remained out of...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Panoramic Photographs Show Many "Lost" Irvington Structures

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      Throughout 1937 and 1938, a photographer from the Bass Photo Company documented the construction of the new International Harvester fa...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Factory Workers Gift a Bust of Washington Irving

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      There are many busts of Washington Irving, but most of them are located in his home state of New York. He died in 1859 and eleven year...
Monday, March 7, 2022

Milroy Family Moved to Irvington

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      For the first twenty-five years of their marriage, Russell and Leona Harton resided in the village of Milroy in southern Rush County. ...
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Monday, May 28, 2018

The Final Days of the International Harvester/ Navistar Plant

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Irvington has gone through many changes over the years. The neighborhood began as an exclusive enclave, morphed into a college town, and by ...
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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Life Inside the McCleery Home at 317 South Arlington Avenue

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The McCleery family dwelled at 317 South Arlington Avenue from 1944 to 1957.  Lee McCleery worked for decades at International Harvester Cor...