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Hervey Bates Sr.

Hervey Bates was born on January 25, 1795, at Fort Washington (now Cincinnati). He was the son of Daniel Bates… Read More »

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Bertita Carla Camille Leonarz De Harding

(Nov. 1, 1902-Dec. 31, 1971). Bertita Carla Camille Leonarz de Harding was born in Hun...

Marguerite Lilly Noyes

(Mar. 1, 1884-May 17, 1973). Marguerite Lilly was born in Indianapolis to Rosalie Bell...

Betty Perry

(Aug 8,1948 -Feb. 11, 2022). Perry was born in Brooklyn, New York, as Betty Jo-Ann Mon...

Richard G. Lugar

(Apr. 4, 1932-Apr. 28, 2019). After gaining prominence as mayor of Indianapolis betwee...

PLACES

Broad Ripple

Broad Ripple is a northeast neighborhood bounded by , Evanston Avenue, Kessler Boulevard, and Meridian Street. Broad Ripple began as… Read More »

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Bates House

, an Indianapolis banker and businessman, built the Bates House in 1852-1853 on the no...

Bush Stadium

After the 1930 season. Norman Perry, owner and president of , announced plans to build...

Salesforce Tower

, chairman of Bank One Indiana, began planning for the building now known as Tower in ...

Roberts Settlement

Roberts Settlement was an African American settlement in western Jackson Township in H...

EVENTS

U.S. v. Board of School Commissioners

United States v. Board of School Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, was rooted in the U.S. Supreme Court’s… Read More »

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Presidential Election of 1860

As the state’s largest city, Indianapolis was the site of unprecedented political ac...

Indianapolis/Scarborough Peace Games

In October 1972, Gene McFadden, an Indianapolis urban planner, and community developme...

Anniversary Celebrations

Although they might have gathered occasionally to remember and honor the pioneers, the...

NCAA Basketball Finals

By 2020, the city of Indianapolis had hosted the National Collegiate Athletic Associat...

ORGANIZATIONS

Indianapolis Urban League

Indianapolis Urban League (IUL) is a nonprofit, non-partisan, interracial, community-based social service civil rights organization affiliated with the National Urban… Read More »

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Chatterbox

The Chatterbox Jazz Club, a tiny 900-square-foot bar located at the heart of the cultu...

Board of Trade

In 1853, 36 of the city’s leading businessmen formed the Indianapolis Board of Trade...

IndyBaroque Music

Founded in 1987 as Ensemble Ouabache (pronounced Wabash), also known as the Ensemble V...

Everett I. Brown Company

Everett I. Brown was Indianapolis’ largest architectural and engineering firm in the...

TOPICS

Pharmacy

The first pharmacy practitioner in what would become Indianapolis was likely an indigenous inhabitant who compounded medications from native plants.… Read More »

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