Thursday, November 30, 2023

Emerson Avenue Used to Have a Median Strip

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          In the early twentieth century, local Irvington residents traveled on many brick streets including South Emerson Avenue. Additiona...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Pennsylvania Railroad Had a Double Track Through Marion County.

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       Sometime around the year 1910, a member of the Shimer family crossed South Emerson Avenue and took a photograph of the double tracks ...
Monday, November 20, 2023

New York Street House Visible in Historic Photo

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      Charles S. Townsend took out a building permit for 5821 East New York Street in 1910.  While Mr. Townsend may have been responsible fo...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

Local Woman Operated a Library Near the White House

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     The Anderson Cemetery sits along East Tenth Street north and east of Irvington. Many older families in eastern Marion County are buried...
Friday, August 11, 2023

The Longs Celebrate an Anniversary--1954

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     On September 14, 1954, Robert Bryant Long and Daisy Lee Long sat in their living room at 222 South Ritter Avenue on the day of their 50...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Local Artist and His Wife Moved to Maine

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      Recently, while perusing some historic postcards in a local antique mall, I came across a brief note on stationery postmarked on May 2...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

A Veteran in Ellenberger Park

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      I do not know the name of the young man in this photo. Who is he? On the back of the photo, someone has written "January, 1944...