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Plainfield, with a population of 1,400, is the second largest town in the county. It is on the Vandalia and the traction line running between Indianapolis and Terre Haute. It has two banks, two newspapers, two school buildings, four churches, electric and water works plants and is the home of the Keeley Institute. The Indiana Boys' School is one mile southwest of the town, and is probably the most interesting thing from the visitor's standpoint in the county. It was estab- lished with the Legislative Act of March 8, 1867, and opened January 1, 1868. The grounds contain 527 acres.
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MARION COUNTY.
Marion county, named in honor of Francis Marion, of Revolutionary War fame, was organized December 21, 1821, with its county seat at Indianapolis. The county is practically in the center of the state and was not organized until after a commission had selected the present site of Indianapolis for the new state capital. While the history of the county is largely the history of Indianapolis, yet the county is in the center of the best farming land of the state. Its land area of 254,080 acres is drained into White river which meanders through the county from north to south. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $273,385,310. It has 140 schools, 1,258 teachers and 44,529 pupils. The population of the county in 1830, the first censns of the county, gave it 7,192; by 1860 the population had increased to 39,855; and in 1910 it was 263,661.
Indianapolis, the largest inland city in the United States, had a population of 233,650 in 1910 and an estimated population of 291,940 in 1916. It is a great rail- road center, no less than seventeen trunk lines passing through the city. It is the greatest interurban center in the world and its thirteen interurban lines enter a central station, the finest in the United States, and radiate to all parts of the state. The city has an area of 37.97 square miles, an assessed valnation of $244,217.280, 343 miles of sewers, twenty-six parks, 165 miles of paved streets, 170 miles of street car tracks, public market, three high school and 70 ward buildings, 63 hotels, 37 banks, 79 newspapers and periodicals, six theaters, 72 moving picture houses, 284 churches and 632 saloons.
The city has three direct steam roads to the coal fields of Indiana and with an abundance of cheap fuel the growth of manufacturing has been phenomenal. It now ranks second in the United States in the mannfacture of automobiles. In this con- nection it should be stated that the city has the finest motor speedway in the world. It is a great meat packing center, manufactures more quartered oak veneer than any city in the country, produces more hominy than any city in America and pro- duces more than a thousand different manufactured articles which are shipped to all parts of the world.
It is the seat of the following state institutions: School for Deaf, School for Blind; Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana Girls' School, Indiana Woman's Prison, Central Hospital for the Insane and Indiana State Fair. Among its colleges and special schools may be mentioned Butler College, Benjamin Harri- son and Indiana Law Schools, three business colleges, Indiana Central University, Indianapolis Conservatory and Metropolitan schools of Music, Normal College of the North American Gymnastic Union, Indiana Dental College, Indiana Veterinary Col- lege, Tudor Hall, Brooks School for Boys, Bogue's School for Stammerers, Indiana School of Pharmacy and even a barbers' college.
The city is unusually well supplied with hospitals. The city maintains one large hospital and Indiana University owns the Robert W. Long Hospital. Others are as follows: St. Vincent, Methodist, Deaconess and Eleanor hospitals. Besides there is a hospital for the incurable insane at Julietta, Marion county, which was opened in 1900. A number of private hospitals and sanitarinms are also found.
Another feature of the city's life is seen in the large number of institutions of a religious, charitable or benevolent nature. Included among such institutions are the white and colored Y. M. C. A. buildings and the Y. W. C. A. building; Salva- tion Army; Volunteers of America; the Bertha Ballard Home; homes for aged white and colored women and a separate home for aged Catholic women; Indian-
apolis Orphans' Asylum, Fairview Mission, German General Protestant Orphans' Home, German Lutheran Orphans' Home, Home for Friendless Colored Children, Rescue Mission, Summer Mission for Sick Babies, Friendly Inn, Flanner Guild, Woman's Relief Corps, Indiana Humane Society, Red Cross Society, Day Nursery for Working Mothers, Bureau of Justice and, finally, the Indianapolis City Charity Organization.
Indianapolis has many notable buildings. The state capitol, Mariou county court house aud federal building are all handsome structures. There are 25 modern office buildings of more than six stories. The Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Eagles, Knights of Columbus, and several other fraternal orders have magnificent buildings. The Columbia Club, Marion Club, Democratic Club, Country Club, Canoe Club and University Club have buildings of their own, while union labor men have a Labor Temple. The John Herron Art Institute has one of the finest buildings devoted to art to be found in the United States. Various German organizations have handsome buildings. The Das Deutsche House, Southside and Independent Turnvereins and Indianapolis Maennerchor organizations have build- ings which would be a credit to any city in the country. Another building of an unusual character is the Propylaeum, built and owned by the women of Indi- anapolis, and devoted to literature, art and general enlture.
Any description of Indianapolis would be incomplete without mention of its beautiful Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, which is conceded to be the most beau- tifnl monument of its kind in the world. It was dedicated in 1902 and stands in the circle formerly occupied first by the goveruor's house and later by the statue of Gov- ernor Morton, which now stands iu the State House yard. The monument is 284} feet high and is adorned at the base with the statues of George Rogers Clark, James Whitcomb, William Henry Harrison and Oliver P. Morton. Other statues of eminent Indiana men to be found in the city arc those of Thomas A. Hendricks, Henry W. Lawton, Schuyler Colfax and Benjamiu Harrison and a bust of Robert Dale Owen. A bronze tablet on the south side of the Claypool'Hotel informs the passers- by that Abraham Lincoln stood on that spot and delivered an address during the Civil War.
Indianapolis is becoming known as the "Convention City" because of the in- creasing number of national conventions of every kind which meet here. Tomlin- son Hall, the largest in the city, has a seating capacity of five thousand, and is amply large enongh to accommodate any kind of a convention except a presidential convention. The colosseum at the fair ground is used for horse shows, automobile exhibits, musical concerts and also for speaking occasions.
The incorporated cities in Marion county outside of Indianapolis are Beech Grove, Castleton, Southport, University Heights, Broad Ripple and Clermont. None of the towns, with the exception of Beech Grove, have a population of more than five hundred. Other villages in the county include Nora, Mt. Comfort, Friendswood, Camby, West Newton, Cumberland, Flackville, Alliance, Antrim, Glen Valley, Wana- maker, New Augusta, Oaklandon, Southport, Bridgeport, Gallaudet, Ben Davis, . Lawrence, Malott Park, Acton, Maywood, Valley Mills, Olinville and Carter.
A United States Army post is located in the northeastern part of the county, eleven miles from Indianapolis. It was established in 1907 and named Fort. Ben- jamin Harrison, in honor of the only President elected from Indiana. The post is connected with Indianapolis by an electric line.
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Hancock county, named iu honor of John Hancock, was organized December 24, 1827, with the county seat at Greenfield. It joins Marion county on the east and contains 196,480 acres of as fine farming land as can be found in the state. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $19,378,600. There are 75 schools, 139 teachers and 3,793 pupils. The county has 10 banks. The county had a population of 12,802 in 1860 and 19,030 in 1910.
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HENRY COUNTY.
Henry county, named in honor of Patrick Henry, was organized December 31, 1821, with its county seat at New Castle. It has a land area of 254,080 acres of good farming land. the census report of 1910 returning all but 10,000 acres of it as under cultivation. It is drained south to the headwaters of White river. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $25,167.500. It has 70 schools, 204 teachers and 5.661 pupils. The county has 15 banks. The county has sbown a sub- stantial gain in population each decade since 1860, at which time it had a popula- tion of 20.119. Its greatest increase was in the decade from 1900 to 1910, when it had a population of 29,578.
New Castle, tbe county seat, has had a phenomenal growth since 1900. At that time it had a population of only 3,406, but by 1910 it had increased to 9,446, while in 1916 it was estimated at 12,500. It is situated in the center of the county on the P., C .. C. & St. L., L. E. & W. and C., C., C. & St. L. railroads. It is also reacbed by two interurban lines, the I. U. T. and T. H., I. & E. The city has four banks, two daily and two weekly papers, fine schools and churches of the leading denomina- tions, public library, hospital, and all the improvements of the modern city. Among its many important industries are the manufacture of kitchen cabinets, automobiles and automobile parts. pianos, caskets, bridges, flour and timber products of various kinds. The city is known as the "Rose City." because of the large amount of American Beauty roses which are grown there, the greenhouses covering several acres of land, and the roses being shipped in car load lots to all parts of the United States. Its Hoosier kitchen cabinets are known all over the world. being the most extensively advertised product of its kind now on the market. The Indiana Village for Epileptics is located about five miles northeast of the city. It was established by the legislative act of March 6, 1905, and opened September 16, 1907. The farm contains 1,246 acres.
Other incorporated towns in the county are Middletown, Knightstown, Spice- land, Lewisville, Mooreland, Sulphur Springs, Mt. Summit, Kennard, Greensboro, Straughn, Cadiz, Dunreith and Shirley. Unincorporated villages include Blounts- ville, Ashland, Millville, Messick, Luray, Hillsboro, New Lisbon, Ogden, Mechanics- burg and Honey Creek. The Old National Road runs across the southern part of the county.
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WAYNE COUNTY.
Wayne county, named in honor of Geu. Anthony Wayne, was organized November 27, 1810, with its first couuty seat at Salisbury. In 1817 it was changed to Centerville, where it remained until 1873, when it was removed to Richmoud. The struggle between Centerville and Richmond over the county seat was a question which often affected state politics and it is safe to say that no other county in the state has had such a prolonged fight before it got its seat of justice permanently located. The county contains some of the best farming land in the state aud there is very little of its 263,040 acres which cannot be tilled. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $35,997,824. It has 77 schools, 265 teachers and 7,792 pupils. There are 16 banks in the county. In 1820 Wayue county had a population of 12,119, the largest population of any county in the state, and it continued to be the ranking county in population up to and includ- ing 1850. At that time it had 25,320 inhabitants, as against Marion county's 24,103. In 1860 it ranked second with 29,558, Marion being first with 39,855. Since 1860 the county has shown a steady increase at each decennial census, the 1910 census giving it a population of 43,757.
Richmond, the county seat, a flourishing city of 24,000, is located on the G. R. & I., C. & O. aud the Pennsylvania railroads, and the Ohio Electric and the T. H., I. & E. traction lines, 69 miles east of Indianapolis. It has four banks, two daily and three weekly newspapers, 11 school buildings, five churches, public library, eight hospitals and homes, and all the improvements of the modern city.
It is the seat of Earlham College, a Quaker institution of learning, which has a national reputation for the character of its work. There are also a number of business colleges, conservatories of music, private and parochial schools in the city. Glen Miller Park, on the western edge of the city, is one of the most picturesque parks in the state.
Richmond is an important manufacturing center, its chief manufactured products including the following: Pianos, fencing, cigars, wagons, brass products, ice cream, automobiles, mattresses, fertilizer, razor hones, medicine, lawnmowers, ventilating apparatus, clamps, caskets, gloves, baking powder, brooms, beer, candy, porch shades, furniture, chairs, elevators, safety gates, fireproof doors, packing house products. agricultural implements, roller skates and ice.
The other incorporated towns in the county are Cambridge City, Centerville, Dublin, Mount Auburu, East Germantown, Boston, Milton, Hagerstown, Fountain City, Whitewater and Spring Grove. Of these towns, Cambridge City and Center- ville are the only ones with a population in excess of a thousand. The unincor- porated villages include Abington, Druley, Wolfe, Chester, Cox Mills, Bethel, Dalton. Economy, Williamsburg, Webster, Woodford, Beesons, Greens Fork aud Smithfield.
The Eastern Hospital for the Iusane, located a short distance west of Rich- mond on a tract of 769 acres, was provided for by the legislative act of March 7, 1883. Some of the buildings were completed in 1887 and the same year the feeble-minded children then at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home were temporarily housed at Richmond. They were moved to Ft. Wayne in July, 1890, and on the 4th of the following August the first insane patients were received at Richmond.
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