By Stephanie Dolan This fall, the Perry Township/Southport Historical Society gathered for its second meeting of the year at the Southport Community Building at 6901 Derbyshire Road. “We had a January meeting,” society president Barry […]
By Rick Hinton “I’ve never spoken to a historical society before, so it’s a little scary. Hopefully I can tell you something that’s new and exciting for you,” journalist, copy editor and author Ashley Petry […]
By Barry Browning, Treasurer Perry Township/Southport Historical Society The Southport area was a wooded wilderness in the early 1800s. After Indianapolis was selected to be the site of the new state capitol, people began moving […]
By Rick Hinton The Edgewood Elementary School, 1408 Epler Ave., had its beginnings in the fall of 1914, opening as a four-room schoolhouse to accommodate Grades 1 through 8. Over the years that changed as […]
By Rick Hinton Do many of us fully understand the Underground Railroad system as it applied to frontier Indiana starting in the early 1800s? We’re not talking trains here, but the metaphor is still the […]
By Stephanie Dolan For more than 20 years, Arcadia Publishing has been connecting people to the past through an historical books and series designed to shine a spotlight on hometown history along with everyday facets […]