Is there more than corn in Indiana?
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The first regulated speed limit (20 - 25 mph!) was initiated on Indiana roads in 1921. An average of 400 funnel clouds are sighted each year in Indiana. U.S. 231 is the longest highway in Indiana (231 miles). The much sought-after Hoosier Cabinets are an Indiana product.
90% of the world's popcorn is
NBA Superstar Larry Bird was born in West Baden, Indiana (across the tracks from French Lick). This earned him the nickname "the hick from French Lick". West Baden Resort Hotel was, prior to construction of the Houston Astrodome, the largest free spanning dome in the United States and the world (1902-1913).
Garfield the Cat creator Jim Davis lives and works near Albany Indiana.
The steepest railroad grade in the world is in Madison, Indiana. Jefferson County Indiana
The Jackson Five are from Gary, Indiana. Frank Borman, NASA astronaut, born in Gary, Indiana.
Josie Orr, wife of former Indiana Governor Robert Orr, flew bombers and cargo planes during WWII. Vanderburgh County Indiana
Union County Indiana's celebrities.....
One of the first complete bathrooms in
Indianapolis was in the home
of Hoosier poet,
James Whitcomb Crown Hill Cemetery (Indianapolis) is the the third largest cemetery in the United States at 555 acres (2.2 km˛). It contains 25 miles (40 km) of paved road, over 150 species of trees and plants, over 185,000 graves, and services.. The world's first transistor radio was made in Indianapolis. Frank Sinatra first sang with the Tommy Dorsey band at the Lyric Theater in Indianapolis.
Actress
Marjorie Main was
born in Acton, Indiana. She is remember for her portrait of "Ma
Kettle" in the "Ma & Pa Kettle" series.
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart was once a Professor at Purdue University.
L Emmett Kelly, the world famous clown, is buried in Rest Haven Cemetery in Lafayette. Brian Lamb, founder of C-SPAN, is a native of Lafayette. Alvah Curtis Roebuck, co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Co., was born on January 9, 1864, in Lafayette.
The library in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, houses one of the largest genealogy libraries in America. Actress Carole Lombard was born in Fort Wayne, IN. She was married to Clark Gable. Johnny Appleseed is buried at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The inventor of the television, Philo T. Farnsworth, lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Wabash, Indiana, was the first electrified city in the U.S.
Pendleton, Indiana, was the site of the
first hanging of a white man for killing Indians. The incident was The singing McGuire Sisters spent their childhood summers at the Church of God Campground in Anderson, Indiana. Actor Forrest Tucker was from Pendleton, Indiana. The very first prototype refrigerator, was originally designed and developed in the Process Engineering Department of Delco in Anderson, IN, before they took it to General Motors in Detroit, MI for eventual production by "Frigidaire" . The Courthouse roof in Greensburg, Indiana, has a tree growing from it.
The American Beauty Rose was developed at Richmond, Indiana. (Richmond is called "The Rose City"). The main station of the Underground Railroad was the Levi Coffin Home in Fountain County, Indiana.
Elkhart, Indiana, is the band instrument capitol of the World.
It for many years was the Divorce Capital of the United States. Wilbur Shaw won the Indianapolis 500 mile race three times. We can't forget the only functioning rotary jail in the United States at Crawfordsville (one of only 7 ever built and I think one of 3 still standing) The Metal detector ( mine detector) was invented in Crawfordsville.
Florence Henderson is from Dale Indiana.
A Buzz Bomb, believed to be the only one on public display in the nation, can be found on the Putnam County Courthouse lawn in Greencastle.
Thomas A. Hendricks, former vice-president under Grover Cleveland was lived in Shelby County.
Mae West and Claude Akins were from Bedford, Indiana. Lawrence County Indiana
The birthplace of the automobile, the pneumatic rubber tire, the aluminum casting process, stainless steel and the first push-button car radio was in Kokomo, Indiana. Raintree County, a novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr. published in 1948 is based on Henry County. The fictional town of Waycross was based on Straughn, Indiana. Esther Armacost Kellner was born in Henry County and lived in Wayne Co. She was a writer. Her novel, "The Devil and Aunt Serena" was basically the story of her family and set in the Henry Co. and Wayne Co. area.
Vernon in Jennings County was the home of Indiana’s first all female jury trial on July 6, 1921.
Ken
Everyone knows about John
Dillinger but did anyone know that
Arnold , the pig was from
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Tomato juice was first served at a
The world's largest
The
city of Gary, Indiana, was built on fill brought from the bottom of Lake
Michigan through suction
pipes.
afayette
was the site of the first air mail flight by hot air balloon, in 1859. It
didn't get very far due to wind currents, instead of going east it ended
up south near Crawfordsville. From there it was dispatched to New York via
railroad.
called the 
Crawfordsville, Indiana is the
only site in the world where
The
October 6, 1866 the
Seymour, Indiana depot.
They got away with at least $12,000. It was the first recorded peace time
train robbery. Frank, John, Simeon and William Reno were one of the first
outlaw brotherhoods in the U.S. They all were from Rockford, a rural
community 2 miles north of Seymour in Jackson County, Indiana.
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very early movies stars (1920's) were born in Vevay, Switzerland County.
Mooresville, Morgan County . Arnold, the pig on Green Acres,
was born and trained by a man named Freeman. His parents owned the Freeman
Flower Shop in Mooresville. 
