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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 Department of Natural Resources - State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)

SHAARD gives interested parties the opportunity to access the cultural resource data the DHPA holds on historic properties and cemetery resources across Indiana. Researchers can easily search records concerning National Register properties, theaters, historic bridges, county surveys, and cemeteries, gaining information on a resource’s location and site characteristics, as well as viewing photos and maps of the sites and structures. SHAARD can help you know more about historic and active cemeteries within each Indiana county. It allows access to all of the data collected through the DHPA’s Cemetery and Burial Ground Registry, which includes cemeteries’ locations, known number of graves, general assessment of the cemeteries’ condition, ethnic/organizational affiliations, and architectural features, as well as maps and photos.

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

Indiana Landmarks

Indiana Landmarks is a nonprofit organization, fighting to defend architecturally unique, historically significant, and communally cherished properties. We rescue them, we rehabilitate them, and we give them new purpose -- saving our state's shared heritage and bringing new life to communities.

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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