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Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

Evansville, Indiana - Local History Database

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Indiana

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.

Indiana Farmer 1851-1917 | Purdue University Libraries e-Archives

The digital Indiana Farmer gives a rare view of rural Hoosier life from 1851 to 1917. It includes the mechanization of Hoosier agriculture, the founding of Purdue University and the first Indiana State Fair.

Indiana Historical Bureau

Indiana History Timeline

Taming The Wilderness: Roads

Early roads in Indiana.

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

Consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky & West Virginia from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.

The Historic National Road

Focuses on the Indiana portion of the National Road.

The History of Indiana

A historical overview of Indiana from Native American inhabitants.

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