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Marie Webster of Marion (pop. 30,046) wrote the nation’s first book on quilting—Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them—in 1915.

first appeared: 6/10/2001

With 32 covered bridges, Parke County claims to have the most covered bridges of any county in the nation.

first appeared: 6/3/2001

The state’s largest American Indian cemetery, once part of the state’s last Indian reservation, is two miles southwest of La Fontaine (pop. 902). Descendants of Miami Chief Metocinya are among those interred at the unmarked burial sites.

first appeared: 5/27/2001

Schuyler Colfax, who bought a South Bend newspaper and renamed it the St. Joseph Valley Register in 1845, served as vice president under President Ulysses S. Grant from 1869-73.

first appeared: 5/20/2001

Over a 30-year stretch beginning in 1960, residents of Clay City (pop. 996) who played in basketball and fast-pitch softball adult leagues won more than 2,500 games, 350 tourney-league trophies, and six state championships. They were known as the Clay City Comets.

first appeared: 5/13/2001

Last October, the state Department of Natural Resources released 32,000 young bass and channel catfish in the White River near Noblesville (pop. 28,602) to help replenish fish stocks.

first appeared: 5/6/2001

The first Mennonites in Indiana settled in Adams County in 1835. Some of their descendants still live near Berne (pop. 3,847).

first appeared: 4/29/2001

Hoosier Hill, a wooded rise on private property northwest of Bethel in Wayne County, is the highest point in the state—1,257 feet above sea level. The point is marked by a cairn of field stones.

first appeared: 4/22/2001

At one time, Switzerland County had more than 200 hay presses. Now, only five remain. Weighing about 5 tons each, the presses were the first mechanical means to bundle hay and were used extensively in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

first appeared: 4/15/2001

In 1954, Milan High School in Milan (pop. 1,739), with an enrollment of 161 students, won the state championship basketball title. The victory inspired the 1986 movie Hoosiers.

first appeared: 4/8/2001

Abraham Lincoln was almost 8 years old when his father, Tom Lincoln, moved the family from Kentucky in 1816 to begin a new life on a 160-acre farm in Spencer County.

first appeared: 4/1/2001

The state’s oldest continually used school is Myers Grade School in Cannelton (pop. 1,771), built in 1869.

first appeared: 3/25/2001

In 1798, when Miami chief Little Turtle—born near present-day Fort Wayne—listened to French historian Constantin Volney speculate how Asians had migrated to North America to become the first Native Americans, Little Turtle asked Volney if it were possible that Indians were the first humans and had gone west to populate Asia.

first appeared: 3/18/2001

William H. Hays, born in Sullivan (pop. 4,521) in 1879, became president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America in 1922 and established the “Hays Code” which, from 1930 to 1966, set morality standards for what could be shown in American films.

first appeared: 3/11/2001

The name Dublin (pop. 827) was derived from an early stagecoach stop called the “Double Inn,” which had two log cabins connected to each other.

first appeared: 3/4/2001

In 1931, Miles Laboratories of Elkhart created an antacid (alkaline) tablet that made water fizzy (like seltzer water). They named the tablet Alka-Seltzer.

first appeared: 2/25/2001

Ralph Sechler & Son Inc. has been canning pickles in St. Joe (pop. 554) since 1923 and offers 41 varieties available throughout the region, including jalapeno dilled gherkins, apple cinnamon chunks, and candied sweet raisin crispies, as well as dill, garlic, and sweet pickles.

first appeared: 2/18/2001

Purdue University in West Lafayette (pop. 27,177) was named after John Purdue, a Lafayette businessman and principal benefactor of the land grant college founded in 1869.

first appeared: 2/11/2001

—Katie Hall of Gary served in Congress from 1983-85, becoming the state’s first African-American representative and its first congresswoman.

first appeared: 2/4/2001

—Lewis Wallace, the author of Ben Hur, began writing the famous novel in Crawfordsville (pop. 18,849) after serving as a Union general in the Civil War.

first appeared: 1/28/2001

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