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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
RAY HOUSE,
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
South-East Corner South and Delaware Streets.
James M. Lambert, Prop'r.
This house is one of medium size, pleasantly located near the Union Passenger Depot and the different Railroad Freight Depots, yet far enough away from the rush of business to be a pleasant hotel and public boarding house, affording fair accommodations to either strangers or business men from neighboring cities and towns, commercial travel- ers, railroad men and others.
The proprietor, Mr. Lambert, being a gentleman of large experience, a practical. =
hotel keeper, burthens his table with everything the country affords or the market pro- duces.
Persons visiting Indianapolis or traveling through the western country should try the Ray House.
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
D. ROOT & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Ware, 5
STOVES,
HOLLOW-WARE, CASTINGS,
Portable and Stationery Engines,
MILL GEARING AND IRON FRONTS.
AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
TIN PLATE, SHEET IRON,
COPPER AND COMPOSITION BOTTOMS,
PIG AND BAR TIN, LEAD, WIRE, SHEET ZINC,
RIVETS, KETTLE EARS, &C.
Tinners' Tools & Machines.
OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE :
No. 66 East Washington St.,
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
FRANKLIN Type and Stereotype Foundry,
BRANCH OF THE JOHNSON TYPE FOUNDRY, NO. 168 VINE ST., BETWEEN FOURTH AND FIFTH,
CINCINNATI, OHIO optic Libr ry Indianape
HOUNDRY
168 FRANKLIN 168 TYPER STEREOTYPEFOUNDRY.
ALLISON, SMITH & JOHNSON,
MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN
NEWS, BOOK AND JOB TYPE,
Printing Presses, Cases, Gallies, &c. INKS AND PRINTING MATERIAL OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. STEREOTYPING OF ALL KINDS, Such as Books, Music, Patent Medicine Directions, Jobs, Wood Engravings, &c. Brand and Pattern Letters of Various Styles.
ELECTROTYPING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
public
GIBSON
HOUSE.
HOUSE
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STILL
IAN
ADAMS. CIN!
WALNUT STREET, BETWEEN FOURTH AND FIFTH, OPPOSITE MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE,
CINCINNATI, OHIO. DAVIDSON & SINKS, PROPRIETORS.
FREI
LITTLE MIAMI R. R
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MARINE
Insurance
Company.
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Capital,
$500.0
ASSETS, $808,892 33.
CONDENSED STATEMENT, APRIL 1, 1868.
Cash. $ 48,178 24
Loans on Real Estate
76,321 66
Loans on Collateral.
37,363 54
Real Estate
60,000 00
Bank Stocks
137,232 00
Railroad Stocks and Bonds.
166,352 00
U. S. Registered Bonds.
271,000 00
Springfield Aqueduct Co. Stock
5,000 00
Accrued Interest and other Cash Items
7,444 89
$808,892 33
DIRECTORS.
EDMUND FREEMAN, EDWARD SOUTHWORTH,
CHARLES MERRIAM,
LOMBARD DALE,
JAMES BREWER,
MARVIN CHAPIN,
GEORGE A. HULL,
WAITSTILL HASTINGS,
CHESTER W. CHAPIN,
DANIEL L. HARRIS,
WILLIAM BIRNIE,
HENRY E. RUSSELL,
GEORGE WALKER,
WILLIAM STOWE.
D. R. SMITH,
E. FREEMAN, President. J. N. DUNHAM, Sec'y.
D. R. SMITH, Vice Pres't. S. J. HALL, Ass't. Sec'y.
W. T. GIBSON, AGENT, Office, No. 5, Up-Stairs, Odd Fellows' Hall, Indianapolis.
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
INDIANAPOLIS
STEAM LAUNDRY
J. L. SPAULDING, PROP'R.
NOS. 22 AND 24 SOUTH NEW JERSEY STREET,
OPPOSITE LITTLE'S HOTEL,
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.
Having the latest improvements in Laundry Machinery, we are prepared to do all kinds of
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Washing on Short Notice,
And in the NEATEST MANNER. Particular attention given to fine work, such as Ladies' Fancy Dresses and Underwear, Gents' Fine Shirts, White Suits, etc. Parcels called for and delivered to any part of the city.
SEND FOR PRICE LIST!
WE TAKE SPECIAL ORDERS FOR THE
" Quaker City Fine Shirt,"
And will give you a perfect fit and satisfaction in quality of goods. Try them.
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
CITY GROCERY!
J. N. CONKLIN,
Successor to Horn, Anderson & Co.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES,
FOREIGN FRUITS,
T
T
YOUNG
HYSON
FINE
BLACK TEAŞ
TEAS,
-AND-
The Finest Wines, Liquors & Cigars, NO. 31 WEST WASHINGTON STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Depot of LONGSWORTH'S NATIVE WINES of all Brands.
Orders from the country, for anything in our line, shipped promptly. Goods deliv- ered to any part of the city free of extra expense to purchasers. 19-
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
St. Nicholas Hotel,
library
Public
ianapolis
ST.
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BAKER-CHICAGO.
SOUTH-WEST COR, MADISON AND FOURTH STS.,
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.
JOHN MCCREERY, PROPRIETOR.
This Hotel is one of the oldest in the city of Springfield, Illinois, and under its present management is fully equal if not superior to the past, combining all the modern accommodations surrounding a first-class Hotel, being situated in a retired part of the business portion of the eity, but three blocks from the Post Office and State House, near the Chicago and St. Louis railroad depot, convenient to the different churches, publie places of amusement, banks and principal business houses. The house is large and handsomely finished, well furnished, lighted with gas, easily heated in Winter and ventilated in Summer. The office, reading rooms, reception rooms and parlors, are handsomely decorated ; being on same floor with the dining hall are conveniently ar- ranged. On the ground floor is superbly fitted up a large billiard room and bar, where those who desire ean enjoy a lively game of billiards, a quiet smoke, or a pleasant drink of the best wines, liquors, ale or beer, the market produces. The whole combined affording a comfortable Hotel, at all seasons of the year, for business men, commercial travelers, tourists and all others, who as guests will find the kindest attention to their wants promptly proffered by the proprietor, employees and servants, who are at all times courteous, obliging and attentive to the wants of guests. All will do well to give the St. Nicholas at least one trial and be satisfied with the truth of the above state- inent.
JOHN MCCREERY, PROPRIETOR.
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
LOGAN & CO., PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS ! -OF -- DIRECTORIES -OF-
Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Richmond and Lafayette, Ind., COLUMBUS AND DAYTON, OHIO, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, AND OTHER CITY DIRECTORIES AND GAZETTEERS.
&Directories of different cities and States for sale at publishers' prices, including POST OFFICE DIRECTORY of the United States and Canadas, and LIVINGSTON'S LAW REGISTER of the United States.
OFFICE, NO. 16 1-2 EAST WASHINGTON STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. LOGAN'S GENERAL
Newspaper Advertising Agency.
Cards of any size inserted in any of the leading Journals in the West. Issued Monthly : " Wes- tern Commercial Review and Railroad Journal," having a circulation in the Western States, at one dollar a year.
LOUIS LANG'S WINE HOUSE. DEALER IN Bottled Liquors, Ale, Cider, &c NO. 29 SOUTH MERIDIAN STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
A pleasant place to enjoy a quiet talk and invigorating smile.
White Fawn Saloon, NO. 33 WEST WASHINGTON STEEET, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Nim K. Knotts & Co., Proprietors.
The White Fawn is a new institution just opened in fine style, at which will be afforded the best WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS in the market. A cool and comfortable place, either in Summer or Winter, to enioy a quiet talk, pleasant smoke or an invigorating smile.
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
BERKSHIRE
LIFE
Insurance Company,
PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.
ALL POLICIES MUTUAL AND NON-FORFEITABLE.
Annual Cash Dividends Paid on Renewal of all Policies that have been in force two years.
Dividends added to the Policy often exceed the amount of premiums paid and are non- forfeitable, and will be redeemed in cash on demand. Premiums may be paid annually, semi-annually or quarterly.
OUR CASH ASSETS ARE NEARLY $1,000,000.
Dividends, September, 1866, forty-four per cent. and payable the same year as declar- ed, always adding, in many cases, to the Policy more than the Premium paid, and on Endowment and ten Annual Life Policies, from sixty to one hundred and twenty per cent. of the annual life rate. The Berkshire was chartered in 1851, and is
One of the Oldest in the Country !
No company stands higher in the ratio of assets to liability. (See Massachusetts Reports, 1865.) For the same money or less, we insure you twice the length of time of most companies. For instance, a party by paying one year's premium, insures for two years and three days from the date of his Policy, giving you one year and three days more than ordinary companies. Be sure and see our agents before insuring.
AGENTS WANTED. EXTRA INDUCEMENTS OFFERED.
J. N. Greene, Gen'l. Agent,
NO. 25 WEST WASHINGTON ST., INDIANAPOLIS.
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
SPENCER HOUSE,
J. W. Canan, Prop'r. OPPOSITE NORTH-WEST CORNER UNION DEPOT, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.
W. D. SAPP, J. T. CANAN, CLERKS.
J. E. SHOVER. W. F. CHRISTIAN.
SHOVER & CHRISTIAN, Carpenters & Builders
JOB WORK PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. No. 278 North Delaware Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. P. O. BOX 1,209.
ANSON REED. JAMES BOYLE.
A. REED & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF Superior Bottled Soda Water. WAREHOUSE AND MANUFACTORY :
No. 212 West Washington St.,
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Bottled Soda Water delivered to any part of the city or country, or shipped to sur- rounding towns on order left at the manufactory, or addressed to P. O. Box 813.
DR. U. T. WOODBURY, URGEON DENTIST.
OFFICE, 39 1-2 WEST WASHINGTON STREET, Next to Palmer House, Up Stairs, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Special attention given to fitting in artificial teeth, in the highest style of the art, on Vulcanite base, at reduced prices, viz: Single tooth, $5,00; $1,50 each additional to eight ; full upper set, $18,00; full mouth denture, $35,00. Extracting, 50 cents each, and by anesthesia, without pain. Filling the natural teeth with the best materials, at prices to suit the times. Satisfaction guaran- teed. Call and see.
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
J. R. OSGOOD, Indianapolis. S. F. SMITH,
J. WOODBURN, St. Louis. J. S. YOST,
OSGOOD, SMITH & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF
SARVEN'S PATENT WHEEL, PLAIN BUGGY AND CULTIVATOR WHEELS,
WAGON & CARRIAGE MATERIAL,
AND PLOW HANDLES.
No. 230 South Illinois Street,
ONE SQUARE SOUTH OF UNION DEPOT, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
E. T. SINKER.
DANIEL YANDES, WILLIAM ALLEN
WESTERN
Machine
Works. SINKER & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN
PORTABLE AND STATIONARY STEAM ENGINES, STEAM BOILERS AND CIRCULAR SAW MILLS,
With McLain's Improved Lever Set connected to Patent Screw Set; also, has Patent Blower for the Removal of Saw Dust without the labor of handling,
Mill Gearing and Sheet Iron Work Of Every Description, Patent Governors, Steam Guages and Whistles, IRON PIPING, IRON & BRASS FITTINGS, BELTING, FIRE BIRE BRICK, FIRE CLAY. 125 SOUTH PENNSYLVANIA STREET, (One Square East of Union Depot,) INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.
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ADVETISING DEPARTMENT.
New Piano Store ! OPPOSITION TO HIGH PRICES ! IRVING BROS., public
LIDIA
y
Indien
OPPOSITE ODD FELLOWS' HALL,
Are just receiving a splendid assortment of NEW YORK and BOSTON MADE PIANOS, that are not excelled for FINISH, QUALITY OF TONE or DURABILI- TY, that will be sold at same prices as "before the War."
Our Pianos contain all real modern improvements, and are made of the best materi- als with great care, by the most skillful workmen, selected from the best factories in this and the old countries, and are fully warranted to stand the changes of any climate and to give as good satisfaction as any in the market.
All Pianos sold by us are WARRANTED FOR FIVE YEARS and will be kept in rder one ye ar FREE OF CHARGE to purchasers.
SEC'D-HAND INSTRUMENTS
TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR NEW ONES.
A liberal discount to Teachers, Schools and Clergymen.
Now is the time, for those who have been discouraged by HIGH PRICES, to get good Pianos
At Prices that Defy Competition.
Call and examine instruments, or address
IRVING BROS., INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
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ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
Academy of
Music.
SOUTH-EAST CORNER ILLINOIS AND OHIO STREETS,
INDIANAPOLIS, IND'A.
V. BUTSCH & DICKSON, PROPRIETORS.
This is one of the most complete THEATRICAL HALLS in the western country, and is open every season with a first-class
DRAMATIC CCOMPANY.
Every attention paid to the comfort of visitors. A vigilant police guard always in attendance.
W. H. LEAK, Manager.
JAMES B. DICKSON, Treasurer.
FRANKLIN LIFE
Insurance Company,
OF INDIANAPOLIS.
THE PIONEER INDIANA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Office in the Company's Building, (Old State Bank,) Opposite Bates and Palmer Houses. ALL KINDS OF POLICIES NON-FORFEITING,
DIVIDENDS DECLARED AND PAID ANNUALLY. PURELY MUTUAL.
The policy holders control all the affairs of the Company. Premiums as low as is consistent with perfect security. All Cash and Cash and Note systems combined. Policy holders can take their choice. This HOME COMPANY was organized in 1863, by some of our best citizens. Its affairs have been carefully and prudently managed, and it already has a large accumulation of funds. We ask the support of all who feel an interest and pride in the success of home institu- tions and the WELFARE OF OUR CITY AND STATE.
JAMES M. RAY, President. WM. S. HUBBARD, Vice President. EDWARD P. HOWE, Secretary.
B. F. WITT, Supervising General Agent.
LOGAN'S HISTORY OF INDIANAPOLIS
FROM 1818.
GIVING A CAREFULLY COMPILED RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE CITY FROM THE ORGA- NIZATION OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT; ITS MERCANTILE, MANUFACTURING, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PROGRESS, COURSE OF DEVELOPMENT, PRES- ENT IMPORTANCE AND FUTURE PROSPERITY ; AS SEEN BY A NATIVE BORN RESIDENT AND WORTHY CITIZEN.
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Indianapolis, the political and commer- 1790 and 1795, and had built several vil- cial capital of Indiana, is situated on the lages along the river, the nearest being west fork of white river, latitude 39º 55', about twelve miles above this point. An longitude 86° 5', and about 527 feet above old white woman, the wife of. a French the sea. It is two miles north-west of the trader, lived there after the rest of the tribe eentre of the State, and one mile south-west had left. She had been taken prisoner, of the centre of Marion county. It oceu- when nine years old, at Martin's Station in pies the midst of a shallow basin, the ground Kentucky, had married an Indian and rais- rising gradually for miles in all directions. ed a half breed family, and after the death The soil is a clayey loam, sub-soil elay, on of her Indian husband married the French- thiek beds of drift gravel and sand, resting man. on silurian elays, limestones and shales. The gravel beds are great natural filters, 1818 By treaty at St. Marys, Ohio, Oc- produeing thorough drainage and holding tober 2, between the Delaware Indians and ample supplies of the purest water. The Lewis Cass, Johnathan Jennings and Ben- whole country was once densely covered with large hard wood trees, and in many places on the city site were extensive thick- ets of prickly ash and spicewood. The thick undergrowth afforded safe eovert for all kinds of game, and for a number of years after the settlement bears and deer were jamin Parke, United States commissioners, the former ceded all their lands in eentral Indiana, agreeing to give possession in 1821. The reported fertility and beauty of "the new purchase," as it was afterward called, excited the frontiersmen, and, without wait- ing for possession to be given under the readily found in the neighborhood. Hun- treaty, they entered it at various points. ters seldom returned unsuccessful from the William Conner, an Indian trader, had set- chase, and, as late as 1842, saddles of veni- tled at a Delaware village on White river, son sold at from 25 to 50 cents, turkeys at four miles this side of Noblesville, several 10 and 12 cents, and a bushel of pigeons years before this date. His location drew for 25 cents. The river was so fully stocked the attention of others to that stream, and with fish that an old settler declared "a several persons from Fayette and Wayne stone thrown in it anywhere, from the counties, visited this section just before and grave yard ford to the mouth of Fall creek, would strike a shoal of fish." The Indians
after the treaty. In the Spring of 1819, two brothers, named Jacob and Cyrus Whit- reluctantly yielded the country on account zel, having got permission of the old Dela- of the abundance of fish and game, and many of them lingered in the vicinity long after the treaty. Though they had no per- manent village here, their hunting and fish-
ware chief, blazed a trace from the White- water river to the bluffs of White river. They remained and raised a erop there during the Summer, and nioved their fami- ing eamps were numerous on and north of lies out in October. (Jacob Whitzel died the city site, and a traveller who passed up there July 2, 1827.) Lewis Whitzel, the the river several years before the settlement, noted Indian seout, celebrated in border says the banks were then dotted with wig- annals, was a brother of these men and
wams and the river often parted by their visited them there shortly after, while on eanoes. The seene was very striking at his way to Louisiana. Late in the Fall of night when the savages were fire hunting or 1818, Dr. Douglas had aseended the river fishing. The Shawnees and Delawares had from the lower settlements, stopping awhile moved to this section sometime between at the bluffs ; and James Paxton descended
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LOGAN'S HISTORY OF
it from the headwaters, reaching this point
1820 Pogue seems to have been the only in January, 1820. These exploring trips inhabitant from March, 1819, to February were attended with some risk, for the In- 27, 1820, when John and James McCor- dians were in full possession and not well mick arrived and built their cabins on the disposed toward the intruders.
river bank, just below the mouth of Fall
1819 According to most authorities, the ercek and near the present bridge. John Maxwell and John Cowan followed shortly
honor due to the first settler belongs to George: Pogue, a blacksmith from White- after, building cabins early in March, in water, who reached this point from that the north-west corner of the donation on section March 2, 1819. After reaching the
Fall creek, near the present Crawfordsville river he turned back and built his cabin road bridge. In March, April and May, on the high ground east of the creek which other families arrived following the trace now bears his name, close to a large spring, left by Cowan and Maxwell, and by the and near the present eastern end of Michi- first of June there were perhaps fifteen gan street. The ruins of this cabin were families on the present donation. Among them were those of Henry and Samuel Davis, Corbaley, Barnhill, Van Blaricum, Harding and Wilson. The first cabin on the old town plat was built in May, by Isaac Wilson, near the north-west corner of the state house square. Other emigrants arrived during the Summer and Fall, and the settlement grew slowly for a year after- ward. The government surveys in this sec- tion were made in 1819 and 1820.
Public Li dianapolis
Litery
(George Pogue's Residence, the First Cabin Built on the Donation.)
The congressional act of April 19, 1816, authorizing a state government for Indiana, had donated (with the privilege of selec- tion,) four sections of unsold lands for a permanent capital. The assembly, on Janu- ary 11, 1820, appointed George Hunt, John Conner, John Gilliland, Stephen Ludlow, Joseph Bartholomew, John Tipton, Jesse B. Durham, Frederick Rapp, William Prince and Thomas Emerson, commissioners to
visible for many years afterward. Pogue was killed by Indians about daybreak one morning in April, 1821., His horses had make the selection, directing them to meet been disturbed during the night, he de- at Conner's house, on White river, early in clared the Indians were stealing them, and the Spring. A part of them only served. taking his rifle set out in pursuit. When last seen he was near their camp, gunshots were heard, and as his horses and clothes at Conner's, where, after very serious dis- were afterward seen in their possession little doubt remained as to his fate. His death greatly excited the settlers, but their nu-
Ascending the valley on horseback and making examinations, they met as directed putes between them as to sites at the bluffs, at the mouth of Fall creek and at Conner's, the present location was chosen by three merical weakness prevented any effort to votes against two for the bluffs. On the
avenge it. The creek on which he settled,
7th of June, 1820, they reported the choice which then pursued a very winding course of sections one and twelve, east fractional through the south-cast part of the plat,
section two and eleven, and enough of west alarming the inhabitants by its floods, re- fractional section three, in township fifteen, ceived his name and remains a lasting range three east, to make the four sections memorial of the first inhabitant of the pre- sent city.
granted. The location gave the place in- stant reputation, and assisted in bringing emigrants to it during the Summer and
Pogue's claim as the first settler has been contested, and in a published article by Dr. Fall of 1820, and Spring of 1821. Among S. G. Mitchell, in the Indianapolis Gazette, in the Summer of 1822, it is stated that the McCormicks were the first emigrants in February, 1820, and that Pogue arrived with others in March, 1820, a month later. It is singular that this statement, if ill- founded, should not have been contradicted publicly in the paper at the time, but the
those who then came were Morris Morris, Dr. S. G. Mitchell, Jolin and James Given, Matthias Nowland, James M. Ray, Nathan- iel Cox, Thomas Anderson, John Hawkins, Dr. Livingston Dunlap, David Wood, Dan- iel Yandes, Alexander Ralston, Dr. Isaac Coe, Douglas Maguire and others, and the cabins clustered closely along the river weight of tradition is against it and concurs bank, on and near which almost the whole in fixing Pogue's arrival in 1819.
settlement was located. Most of the above
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INDIANAPOLIS FROM 1818.
named parties came in the Spring of 1821. and west, and were ninety feet wide except In the north-west part of the donation, Washington which was one hundred and and west of the present blind asylum, a tract of one hundred and fifty or two hun- dred acres was found where the heavy tim- ber had been killed years before by locusts or worms. The undergrowth was cut off, brush fences enclosed portions of the "cat- erpillar deadning," and during this and fol-
twenty. There were eighty-nine squares of four acres in extent, each four hundred and twenty feet front, divided by two alleys fifteen and thirty feet wide crossing at right angles. There were also six fractional squares and three large irregular tracts in the valley of Pogue's run. The present lowing years it was cultivated in corn and North, South, East and West streets, were vegetables by the settlers as a common field. much heavy labor in cutting off dense tim- ber and was immediately available for culti- vation. It yielded abundantly, game was readily procured, and though considerable sickness occurred during the Summer and
not included in the original design, the plat Its existence was a great benefit, for it saved abutting directly against the undivided do- nation lands, but were added afterward by Judge Harrison at the suggestion of James Blake, who said that fifty years afterward they would afford a fine four mile drive around the town' and a half mile from its Fall, the people got along with comparative centre. The donation outside the plat was comfort during the Fall and Winter of not laid off or divided, for no one supposed 1820.
the town would ever extend beyond the
1821 The legislature confirmed the plat, and no provision was made for it. It was afterward divided by the agent, under direction of the assembly, into large out-
choice of site January 6, 1821, named the town Indianapolis, and appointed Christo- pher Harrison, James Jones and Samuel P. blocks, with few and narrow roads or streets, Booker, commissioners to lay it off, direct- ing them to meet on the site first Monday in April, appoint surveyors and clerk, make
and sold for farms. The "sub-divisions " are properly in the squares of the old plat and in these out-blocks, and the "addi- a survey, prepare two maps, and advertise tions" are properly outside of the donation and sell the alternate lots as soon as possi- limits. Unfortunately no rule has ever been adopted by the legislature or city council requiring sub-divisions, and especially ad- ble, the money received from the sales to be set apart as a public building fund. At the appointed time Judge Harrison was the ditions, to conform generally to the city only commissioner here and the only one plat. Each owner has been left free to who acted. Elias P. Fordham and Alexan- regulate the size and shape of blocks and der Ralston had been selected as the sur-
lots, and the width and direction of streets veyors, and Benjamin I. Blythe clerk. Mr. and alleys, to suit his own interest or con-
Blyth became a resident of the town and was subsequently the agent. Of Fordham little is known. Ralston was an old bache- lor, a talented Scotchman, and when young had assisted in surveying Washington city. He was afterward connected with Burr's ex-
venience, and as a natural consequence the newest portions of our city are the most irregular and unsightly portions shown 211 its nap. A rule on this subject should be at once adopted for the future, and large sums will have to be expended some day on
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